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It’s the latest hot TV genre: a woman in a frigid outpost, bundled in puffy outerwear, trying to uncover truths buried in ice.In the new season of HBO’s “True Detective,” Jodie Foster is a cop...

Sam Altman, Sugarcoating the Apocalypse My favorite “Twilight Zone” episode is the one where aliens land and, in a sign of their peaceful intentions, give world leaders a book. Government...

President Joe Biden gave a speech on Bidenomics at a community college in a Washington suburb on Thursday.He ended without taking questions. He said he wished he could, “but I’m going to get in...

I first met Rudy Giuliani in 1986 when I was a New York Times reporter writing about corruption cases in New York. Gotham was awash in so much municipal sleaze, a detective joked that city employees...

It’s not a pretty sight when pols lose power. They wilt. They crumple. They cling to the vestiges. They mourn their vanished entourage and perks. How can their day in the sun be over? One minute,...

I had always been a bah humbug sort of person about Christmas.It seemed like a season of stress, as my parents scrambled to find the money to buy presents for five kids and have a big feast. I...

Ding-dong, the Don is dead. Or is he?An election storm brought the house down on the Mar-a-Lago warlock and devastated Republican hopes for a rout.Republicans are blaming Donald Trump for anointing...

WASHINGTON: Myron Cohen, a garment district silk salesman turned popular comedian in the Ed Sullivan era, liked to tell this chestnut:Imagine a skinny little guy, a shrimp, nothing.He enters a lumber...