Opinion

Op-Ed Columnists

• Amir Taheri

  Assad must (still) go

  In a solemn declaration last August, President Obama called on Syrian despot Bashar al-Assad to...  

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• Michael A. Walsh

  Benghazi blunder: CIA opts for CYA

  The United States has the world’s largest and (at $80 billion a year) best-funded intelligence...  

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• MICHAEL SALTSMAN

  Fast food’s future

  Labor-aligned agitators at New York Communities for Change launched their “Fast Food Forward”...  

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• Michael Barone

  Why tax hikes will never be enough

  The fiscal-cliff negotiations seem to be foundering on President Obama’s insistence on higher tax...  

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Cartoons

By SEAN DELONAS



By MIKE RAMIREZ

Today

• Run, Joe, run

  Mayor Bloomberg’s bid for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to run for Gracie Mansion rather than the White House was quickly dismissed by the former first lady — but not before underscoring a painfully obvious question.

• Taxes are for the little people

  Do you think Al Sharpton appreciates the irony of his being invited to the White House Tuesday to talk taxes with President Obama?

Yesterday

• Here come the clowns

  Albany sometimes beggars belief — and one of those times was yesterday, when five dissident Democrats hooked up with the state Senate’s fading Republican majority to form a governing coalition that promises no end of banana-republic buffoonery in coming months.

• The devil you say

  The Devil wears Prada and donates to Democrats — and it seems she’s come to collect her due.

Letters

• Costas misses the point: guns are not the problem

  The Issue: Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher, who killed his girlfriend and then himself.

Yesterday

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  Whatever you call it, Sandy wreaked havoc

  December 05, 2012

  The Issue: How Gov. Cuomo’s references to Superstorm Sandy changed in different circumstances. ***...  

• Mideast’s spreading disasters

  December 05, 2012

  The Issue: Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi’s efforts to impose Sharia law and gain more power. **...  

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  Oo-rah!

  December 02, 2012

  Underdogs  The Making of the Modern Marine Corps  by Aaron B. O’Connell  Harvard University Press...  

• Booked for the holidays

  December 02, 2012

  Hollywood Unseen  ACC Editions  Talk about your familiar faces in unfamiliar situations: Boris...  
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  In My Library: Robert Battle

  December 02, 2012

  Clive Barnes, The Post’s late, great dance and theater critic, was always looking for the new and...  
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  Cracking the nut

  November 25, 2012

  Creamy & Crunchy  An Informal History of Peanut Butter, the All-American Food by Jon Krampner...  
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  Lost in the mail

  November 25, 2012

  The Great Pearl Heist  London’s Greatest Thief and Scotland Yard’s Hunt for the World’s Most...  

• Required reading

  November 25, 2012

  Then and Now  by Steve Schapiro (Hatje Cantze) Brooklyn-born lensman Schapiro has been shooting...  
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  In my library Dan Lauria

  November 25, 2012

  “Storytelling is a lost art,” sighs Dan Lauria, who grew up in Lindenhurst, LI, listening to his...  
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  We’ve all gone MAD

  November 18, 2012

  The Joy of Hate  How to Triumph Over Whiners in the Age of Phony Outrage by Greg Gutfeld  Crown...  
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  Giving it his best shot

  November 18, 2012

  Then and Now by Steve Schapiro Hatje Cantz His career spans from the protests for Civil Rights to...  
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  In my library Duncan Sheik

  November 18, 2012

  Grammy winner Duncan Sheik says it helps to be Buddhist, if only because its teachings keep the ups...  

• Required reading

  November 18, 2012

  Life Is a Gift  The Zen of Bennett  by Tony Bennett (Harper) If you teared up at Tony Bennett’s...  
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  The demon in my mind

  November 11, 2012

  Her hair looks stringy and dirty. Her body remains rigid as her eyes, wild and unfocused, turn and...  

• Required Reading

  November 11, 2012

  Five Lieutenants  The Heartbreaking Story of Five Harvard Men Who Led America to Victory in World...  

• Beat the clock

  November 11, 2012

  What time is it?  If you look at a clock to get the answer, your body probably doesn’t agree. Our...  
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  In My Library Nathan Englander

  November 11, 2012

  He’s been showered with fellowships and prizes, but Nathan Englander (“What We Talk About When We...  
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  In My Library Oliver Stone

  November 04, 2012

  What a country! No matter who’s elected this week, it’s heartening to know that America’s big...  

• The meal deal

  November 04, 2012

  Leonardo and the Last Supper  by Ross King  Walker & Company You gonna finish that?  The Dominican...  
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  He’s just a mutt!

  November 04, 2012

  What’s a Dog For?  The Surprising History, Science, Philosophy, and Politics of Man’s Best Friend...  
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  Page turner

  November 04, 2012

  Light & Shade  Conversations with Jimmy Page by Brad Tolinski  Crown  It’s no surprise to hear Led...  

• Required reading

  November 04, 2012

  The Middlesteins  by Jami Attenberg (Grand Central) The Middlesteins opens on Edie, a 5-year-old...  
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  Rise of the a-hole

  October 21, 2012

  On the night John Edwards first bedded Rielle Hunter in 2006, the former vice presidential...  
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  Hostess with the mostest

  October 21, 2012

  Inventing Elsa Maxwell  by Sam Staggs  St. Martin’s Press One of the most widely successful high...  

• Required reading

  October 21, 2012

  Back to Blood  by Tom Wolfe (Little, Brown) Twenty-five years after Wolfe’s fictional take on...  
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  In my library Ned Vizzini

  October 21, 2012

  What made a Park Slope prodigy like Ned Vizzini — a New York Press columnist at age 15 — go...  
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  Last of the Top guns

  October 14, 2012

  Viper Pilot  A Memoir of Air Combat  by Dan Hampton  William Morrow  It’s the fifth day of the...  

• Required reading

  October 14, 2012

  Mrs Queen Takes the Train  by William Kuhn (Harper) Worn down by London fog, computers and post...  
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  What the heel?!

  October 14, 2012

  Outrageous footwear goes back a lot further than Carrie’s closet in “Sex and the City.” Royals in...  
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  In My Library Irvine Welsh

  October 14, 2012

  Rumors to the contrary, Irvine Welsh didn't write “Trainspotting” between breaks on his thesis. But...  
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  Wild boy

  October 07, 2012

  In The Pleasure Groove  Love, Death & Duran Duran by John Taylor with Tom Sykes  Dutton Over...  
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  In My Library: Andrew McCarthy

  October 07, 2012

  Andrew McCarthy hiked up Mount Kilimanjaro, dodged mosquitos on the Amazon and slogged through...