“Give me your wealthy, your rich, your huddled M.B.A.s yearning to be tax-free. Send these, your English-speaking, fully insured, to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door! And lift my leg upon your filthy poor. P.S. No fatties, …
Last night we had the pleasure of indulging in a favorite summer tradition: attending The Public Theater’s free Shakespeare in the Park with friends. We missed this season’s controversial Julius Caesar, but made it back to New York in time …
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. As we celebrate those words, …
At 12 noon on January 20th, I was with the President. The 33rd President. I happened to be in Key West, where over 20 years earlier I’d really enjoyed a visit to Harry Truman’s Little White House. I decided to …
Let’s start with the color of the water. This is really what it looks like. No filter, no special effects. Just a snapshot on a regular old phone camera. Those blues and greens are real. We are celebrating the 100th …
Perhaps you saw the recent article in The New York Times under the provocative headline “Have We Been Playing Gershwin Wrong for 70 Years?” It’s about his beloved An American In Paris, a symphonic tone poem that features the distinctive …
It’s hard to believe it was less than a year ago that we posted a 60 Minutes piece called “Joy in the Congo”–produced by our friend Clem Taylor, who died last spring. In a rebroadcast of the Peabody Award-winning story, …
Dear New York State Democratic Committee: That flyer you mailed to our house? The one allegedly designed to “encourage” get-out-the-vote efforts? We have some other words to describe it: Menacing. Insulting. Alienating. “Who you vote for is your secret,” your …
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