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I discovered the Food Network at the gym. TV doesn't much interest me and I rarely watch at home, where we have only one television set and no cable subscription. But I got into the habit of watching in the gym once I realized that clicking through the channels on the screen-equipped treadmill helped distract me from the sweaty tedium of exercise.
Addressing the New York State Democratic convention last week, Joe Biden endorsed Gov. Andrew Cuomo for reelection and delivered some blistering criticism of the party that controls Congress and the White House.
A political pressure group recently announced that it plans to spend upwards of a million dollars on a campaign to get Congress to pass legislation protecting immigrants who were brought illegally to the United States as children — the so-called "Dreamers" — from deportation.
The U.S. birthrate, which has been on the skids for a decade, hit another record low.
Norbert Richter, an engineer whose business is the construction of ultra-light turbine helicopters, has a knack for getting innovative contraptions off the ground.
When George W. Bush ran for president in 2000, it was on a platform of lowering America's international profile and not trying to solve all the world's problems.
Seventy years ago this month, on May 14, 1948, the state of Israel proclaimed its independence. The next day, a story in The New York Times — "Jews In Grave Danger In All Moslem Lands" — reported that Jewish communities throughout the Arab world were under siege.
'The only fate we cannot escape is our mortality," wrote John McCain in 2005, in the introduction to one of his books. Death, of course, is inevitable. But everything that matters most in life — especially decency — is a choice.
As candidate for president in 2008, Barack Obama insisted that one of the biggest problems in America was a shortage of federal regulations. He lambasted his opponent, Republican John McCain, for calling himself a "deregulator."
Last Monday marked the fifth anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombing, making this weekend the fifth anniversary of the first post-bombing Red Sox home game and its ceremony honoring the victims and first responders.
The Berkshire Museum, a venerable but struggling cultural institution in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, triggered a furor when it announced last July that it would auction off 40 works from its huge and sprawling collection of art and historical artifacts.
If "Little Pink House," a new movie starring Catherine Keener and directed by Courtney Balaker, were the usual Hollywood tale of humble citizens abused by a mighty corporation and its political allies, you could expect it to find its way to a happy ending, with the little guys prevailing and their powerful antagonists getting their comeuppance.
Sometime this spring, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court will decide whether the so-called Fair Share Amendment can appear on the state ballot in November.
There is no plot to deny veterans access to government-funded health care as part of a grateful nation's compensation for their service.
Within hours of the Commerce Department's announcement last Monday that there will be a question about citizenship on the 2020 Census, the state of California had gone to court to block it. Announcing the lawsuit, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra claimed that the Constitution bars the Census Bureau from asking people who live in America if they are U.S. citizens. That sounds ridiculous, because it is.
In March 1946, David Ben Gurion appeared before the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, a panel convened to study conditions in Palestine, which was then still under British rule.
Universal voter registration is a lousy idea whose time appears to be coming.
Many people dream of being rich and successful. But some people have had dreams — literal dreams — that led them to riches and success. Here are the tales of two of them.
Oklahoma played a key role in the effort to make capital punishment more humane.
It has been nearly 17 months since Hillary Clinton lost the presidential election, yet she can't seem to stop talking about her defeat, or all the culprits she holds responsible.
