There's poison in the air outside my house, a bitter smoke of ashes and hot freeway, and it is keeping us all inside. Yesterday morning, the kids' summer camp announced that the planned trip to the pool had been cancelled. They would do activities indoors all day. "How high can it ...
In Virginia Lee Burton's classic 1939 children's book "Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel," Mulligan often boasted that his steam shovel, Mary Anne, "could dig as much in a day as a hundred men could dig in a week. Mulligan never gets the chance to prove his boast because electric, diesel and ...
The question recently asked by a federal judge in Miami – can the president sue an entity in the executive branch of the federal government and benefit from the resolution of that lawsuit? – seems to beg the question. How could anyone sue an entity he controls and derive a benefit from ...
The homeless encampment rapidly spreading across 12 blocks along the West Side of Manhattan from the Intrepid Museum to the Javits Center is a red flag to New Yorkers in every part of the city that if you own anything, the city will not protect you, your business or your property. Owners of ...
The New York Stock Exchange opened its doors over 230 years ago. It has been one of the iconic symbols of America's economic might for more than two centuries. But for how much longer? Now the challenge for supremacy isn't coming from London or Tokyo or Hong Kong or Beijing. It's coming from Texas. The Wall Street Journal reported in recent days that the Texas Stock Exchange is now officially open for business, and trading is expected to start soon. Everything is big in Texas, as the saying goes, so New Yorkers should take this rival stock exchange seriously. In some ...
The war with Iran that never really ended is back on. Like everybody else, including the Trump administration and the Iranian regime, I have no idea how it will end. But it eventually will, and how it will be remembered will matter enormously. Politics is about many things, but whether you call it "spin," "framing" or "narrative competition," storytelling is never far from the heart of it. As the philosopher Richard Rorty observed, "Competition for political leadership is in part a competition between differing stories about a nation's self-identity, and between differing symbols of its ...
