Newspaper writer Erasmus Wilson was, no doubt, an über-male chauvinist. In an 1885 Pittsburgh Dispatch column, he joked that American families should kill their baby girls, as was common in China then.
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8/24/18
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This is us in Herald territory: We slog along Sunrise Highway on a Friday afternoon, just trying to get home from work, shopping, school or . . .
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8/24/18
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Will the approaching midterm election simply be a referendum on Donald Trump’s presidency, or a more momentous vote affecting America’s future? Will it . . .
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8/24/18
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Long Island is a great place to live, but what we lack is a new, major employer willing to invest in Nassau and Suffolk counties.
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8/17/18
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Every president has an opportunity to leave a mark on America. The most consequential impact the administration of Donald Trump may have is in the area of international trade.
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8/17/18
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Turns out, even your genes are in your travel jeans.
Last week I mentioned that I was writing from Truckee, Calif., where we rented a house for a month up in the Sierra Nevada mountains, near our daughter’s home.
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8/16/18
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Since the 1960s, there has been a raging debate about the proper place of multifamily housing on Long Island. Opponents warn of “Queens creep,” implying . . .
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8/10/18
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America’s premier newspaper, The New York Times, prides itself on its commitment to reporting “All the News That’s Fit to Print.” But it seems the good U.S. economic news today is . . .
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8/10/18
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Not every weekly newspaper has a foreign correspondent, and we don’t, either. So, I bring to you, at my expense, a firsthand account of a summer in the wilds of northern California.
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8/10/18
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Last week, more than a day late and certainly more than a dollar short, Ivanka Trump announced the closing of her clothing company. She is so not the role model for the average American working woman, and her bottom line . . .
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8/2/18
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