Last week, President Obama's advisers told reporters that they'd soon recommend that the president...
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Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin made an interesting statement on the Senate floor today: He admitted that anyone who says...Graham tells O to 'step it up' on immigration reform
The President has scheduled a meeting with Sens. Chuck Schumer and Lindsey Graham for tomorrow. The purpose of the...
Lt. Gov. Richard Ravitch is a smart guy, experienced and steeped in the ar cana of municipal finance. This makes the borrow-and-spend budget plan he presented in Albany yesterday all the more mystifying.
Timing, former Canadian Prime Minis ter Pierre Trudeau used to say, is the essential ingredient of politics.
The Indian Point nuclear power plant is safe. So says the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which noted that the facility last year "operated in a manner that preserved public health and safety and fully met all cornerstone objectives."
Don't blame Greece for its financial woes, Prime Minister George Papandreou said yesterday after meeting with President Obama.
Looks like the wheels are falling off the Aqueduct racino proposal.
Just last week, Queens Rep. Gregory Meeks said he couldn't wait to sit down for a TV interview to address all allegations raised by a series of Post articles about his supposedly nonprofit community group.
Congratulations to Adam Brodsky for having the guts to say what needs to be said ("Hike MTA Fares Now," PostOpinion, March 8).
The Heights by Peter Hedges (Dutton) The author of “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape” and “An Ocean in Iowa” takes aim at strollerfied Brooklyn Heights this time out. Tim Welch is a...
When witnessing an awe-inspiring talent, whether it comes from sports, music or literature, most people just chalk it up to natural-born gifts. While discussing arguably the...
“The Big Short” could be described as the ultimate love letter to the oddballs on the fringes of the stock and bond market who “told us so” back in 2007 when they predicted the...
The first time Tony Ciminera, vice president of Yugo America, actually drove a Yugo, it almost killed him. The steering went out and he stopped just short of plowing into a tree...
“I wish I were a more promiscuous reader,” confesses John Lithgow, whose obvious intelligence (Harvard, Class of ’67) informs his every role, be it the cunning killer of “Dexter”...
Early on in Carol Goodman’s new novel, we learn that “Arcadia was a place in Greece where life was supposed to be perfect.” You can almost hear the ominous music swelling, tipping...
“There’s a tear in every word,” is how longtime record producer Billy Sherrill described Tammy Wynette’s singing. The legendary country star had 17 No. 1 hits, including “Stand By...
The Game From Where I Stand A Ballplayer’s Inside View by Doug Glanville (Henry Holt, May) It’s no surprise that former big league outfielder Doug Glanville (Phillies, Cubs,...
For more than 20 years, William S. Lerach was the most feared lawyer in America. He and his former firm, Milberg Weiss, were Jedi masters of security law, targeting Fortune 500...
Elizabeth Bard is in love — with flaky croissants, hidden bistros and the French concept of le cinq a sept (“the 5 to 7”), “that hard-to-account-for time after work when lovers...
“I don’t like to be bored, ever,” says Judy Collins, who is as discerning about the books she reads as she is about the ballads she sings. Which is why you’ll find her reading...
After a 2006 game between the Minnesota Twins and the Boston Red Sox, a clandestine meeting took place in the rear laundry room of Minnesota's Metrodome between the managers of...
“The Autobiography of an Execution” is a “memoir” by a Houston death-row lawyer, David Dow, whose mission it is to disgust us with what he knows about capital punishment in Texas...
The American Girl by Monika Fagerholm (Other Press) Consider yourself warned: This has nothing to do with those popular American Girl dolls. It’s a murder mystery that opens in...
“I could not have my mother come to my funeral. A year later, that is the best explanation I can give.” So begins Nick Schuyler’s harrowing tale of how he survived more than 40...
When “Saturday Night Fever” — set around a real-life Bay Ridge discothèque — premiered in December 1977, the movie grossed $200 million and sparked the nationwide disco craze. The...
“I was a nerd in a complicated family, and poetry saved my life,” says Mary Karr. Those who’ve read her harrowing memoirs may think she’s being awfully generous about the...
Diamonds may be a girl’s best friend — but they’re a thief’s, too. Their small size, their liquidity, their extreme value and their virtual untraceability make them the ultimate...
Adam Haslett’s debut novel — his last story collection “You Are Not a Stranger Here” was nominated for a Pulitzer — is a prescient dramatization of what happens when the legalized...
In “The Whale,” winner of the 2009 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for nonfiction, Philip Hoare, like Ishmael before him, sets out on his passionate search for knowledge about the...
Decades before he became America’s poet laureate, Robert Pinsky was seriously into sax. Only later, in his early 20s, the guy voted “most musical boy” in high school realized he...
Moonfixer The Basketball Journey of Earl Lloyd by Earl Lloyd and Sean Kirst (Syracuse University Press) Lloyd is a trailblazing figure, often overlooked for his contribution to...
It’s become the biggest cliché in the book world — an exposé on the item that “changed the world.” Looking for 12 Greeks who changed the world? There’s a book for that. Molecules?...
Given her background — her dad was Jimmy Carter’s national-security adviser, her mom’s a sculptor — you’d hardly expect Mika Brzezinski’s reading to run to, say, Jackie...
The price consultant, a now-common position among retailers, advises stores on how to persuade consumers to spend more but get less. Their stock in trade is psychological...
Do you know your tissue rights? Most likely, you’ve never even heard the term. But the little-known story of Henrietta Lacks, chronicled by science journalist Rebecca Skloot, may...
A naive Clinton administration staff member expected Secret Service agents to protect and serve her. But this illusion of safety disintegrated before her eyes in an empty hotel...
The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris (Little, Brown) For a much-anticipated follow-up to his acclaimed debut, the office satire “Then We Came to the End,” Ferris takes a walk...
You may not know it from her shows — or standup gigs, or that 1992 spread in Playboy — but Sandra Bernhard is a sucker for history. “I’m a little obsessed with Lincoln and John...
“There was once a little girl named Alice.” So begins the story by Charles Dodgson, a math professor at Cambridge who wrote under the pen name Lewis Carroll, to his neighbor, the...
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