As of this writing, it is unclear whether New York’s baseball community will enjoy a meaningful autumn. For a certain element of that community—the voluble though feckless cult known as “Yankee fans”—fall baseball is considered an entitlement. Should the Yankees fail to live up to their end of the devil’s bargain, autumn in New York Read More
The excitement of Primary Night no doubt caused millions of New Yorkers to lose seconds, perhaps even minutes, of precious sleep as they followed the cliffhanger that ended with Anthony Weiner seizing the rare chance to exhibit both discretion and valor.
In choosing not to contest a runoff election with front-runner Fernando Ferrer, Mr. Weiner Read More
More than 30 years after firing its first shots, the Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army has ordered its members to dump their arms. When will Osama bin Laden, or his successor, issue the same order?
It’s a fair bet that most people over the age of 45 will not live to see that Read More
More than 30 years after firing its first shots, the Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army has ordered its members to dump their arms. When will Osama bin Laden, or his successor, issue the same order?
It’s a fair bet that most people over the age of 45 will not live to see that Read More
More than 30 years after firing its first shots, the Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army has ordered its members to dump their arms. When will Osama bin Laden, or his successor, issue the same order?
It’s a fair bet that most people over the age of 45 will not live to see that Read More
As the U.S. and Britain launched a furious attack on the Taliban and Al Qaeda in October 2001, Observer writers Terry Golway and Greg Sargent reflected on the profound sense of solidarity which developed between New Yorkers and the British—those at home across the Atlantic, and those expatriates who toiled in places Read More
It was grimly unsurprising that the usual suspects lined up to condemn Mark Felt, a.k.a. Deep Throat, as a traitor and a rat for snitching on his putative boss, Richard Nixon. Pat Buchanan, G. Gordon Liddy and the rest of that honorable cadre seemed almost delighted to note that Mr. Felt had the proverbial ax Read More
At some point during last year’s Presidential campaign, several donkey watchers wondered aloud how the party of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman and John F. Kennedy became the party of Michael Moore.
This, of course, was at the height of the hype over Mr. Moore’s film, Fahrenheit 9/11, and not long after he praised Read More
Events outpace the written word, showing no mercy for the self-assured. Writing on the Web site Counterpunch.com, Greg C. Estabrook recently suggested that the new Pope might emulate his immediate namesake, Benedict XV, who was “known for three things-putting an end to an intellectual witch-hunt run by his predecessor, Pope Pius X; reversing Pius’ anti-liberal Read More
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, late a Senator from New York, can still pack them in. He’s been gone for two years now, but on May 2 dozens of New Yorkers-including the woman who holds his old Senate seat-gathered in the James A. Farley Post Office building to pay homage to his last dream.
Were he still Read More
