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Attention progressives: America, in many critical ways, is a better place than it has ever been. In the 1600s, indigenous people were trampled. In the 1700s, we seeded our nation with slavery. In the 1800s, we endured a great Civil
Read moreExaminer Media is joining organizations large and small today in endorsing the use of the 25th Amendment or impeachment to remove Trump from office in order to avoid further violence. We’re also asking other like-minded local people and organizations to
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Going to the movies has always been one of my favorite things to do. So, when a double feature of “North by Northwest” and “The Invisible Man” was my last outing to the theater before the coronavirus hit, I was
Read moreWell, the old crystal ball has certainly been tarnished. This time last year it was impossible to envision the upheaval and pain that was in store for so many of us. There was too much loss – businesses, jobs, time
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It was the type of text that rocks your world, triggering a thousand thoughts at once. “My diagnostic test came back positive this afternoon,” my longtime colleague and friend Martin Wilbur, The Examiner’s Editor-in-Chief and founding journalistic voice, wrote me
Read moreI’m here to cheer you up today. To all the people who have spent the past four years dedicating a considerable portion of their emotional energy to the hope that Trump would be rejected in 2020 and are now depressed
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As someone with relatively moderate political views, to the left of conservatives on most social issues and to the right of many liberals on the abilities of government to efficiently fix certain problems, as a newsman who usually prefers to
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With much of the election year suspense revolving around Washington, D.C., it might be easy to forget some of the races closer to home. It is obvious why most of the thousands of people standing outside polling places throughout the
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Sometimes life is about being at the right place at the right time. In some respects, that could sum up the political ascent this year of Mondaire Jones, the Democrats’ choice to succeed Nita Lowey, who is retiring at the
Read moreFor the past two-and-a-half years, state Sen. Shelley Mayer has represented arguably one of the most diverse districts anywhere in the state. The 37th Senate District extends from parts of Yonkers in the southern end, through the Sound Shore communities
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