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Polls, polls, polls. It isn’t even 2024, and we’re bombarded with political polls, one after another. President Biden is a goner and Donald Trump is ahead . . . more

12/14/23

Mideast agreement is major accomplishment for Trump

In the tangled web that is the Middle East, peace breakthroughs are few and far between. They seem to happen once a generation. But when they do happen, they’re historic. more

8/28/20

Do Democrats need a charismatic presidential candidate?

Five decades ago, New York City had a charismatic mayor named John V. Lindsay. He had movie-star appeal, but made more than his share of mistakes, including . . . more

1/11/19

Paying too much attention to the first 100 days

For decades now, at the beginning of every presidency, the media and even the president himself have become obsessed with . . . more

5/4/17

Looking toward the future, we should learn from the past

Like all national elections, the 2016 campaign has highlighted the fact that there are a large number of Americans who are angry at their government and are desperately seeking an agent of change. Many of them . . . more

9/29/16

We have the right to call the president names. Should we?

We Americans are pretty lucky people. Whether you live in Bellmore, Brooklyn or Boston, you enjoy many rights and privileges that few other people on this planet can boast about. more

2/14/14

'Argo' finds hope in a hopeless age

“The crises in Iran and Afghanistan have dramatized a very important lesson: Our excessive dependence on foreign oil is a clear and present danger to our nation’s security." more

3/7/13

How the Republican Party lost its way

In the weeks after the election, it will be easy to Monday-morning quarterback and ask, “What if?” Many people will blame Mitt Romney’s loss on Hurricane Sandy, and others on the candidate himself. more

11/15/12

Thirty-two years later, the question is the same

With just a week left before the 1980 presidential election, Republican candidate Ronald Reagan asked Americans whether they were better off than they were four years earlier. more

9/13/12

Lawrence resident Sharon Douglas, left, with her mother, Betty Trock-Hendler, at the ninth annual Heritage Award dinner at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, at which Trock-Hendler received the 2010 award.

Celebrating Women's History Month

The world has changed dramatically since Lawrence resident Sharon Douglas, 62, attended Mills College of Education in New York City — at a time when there were colleges women weren’t allowed to attend. more

ANN E. FRIEDMAN | 3/9/11

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