To the editor: Thanks to the letter writer who explained billionaires' support of former President Trump for the enlightenment and levity. He wrote that the very wealthy support Trump not for the tax cuts, but for their altruism and Trump’s policies to build the economy, increase homeownership and provide medical care. Increasing home ownership must have been why Trump appointed Steve Mnuchin as Treasury secretary — because when Mnuchin and his partners acquired the failing bank IndyMac and...
"Those tears were the product of the education I’d come for."
The Adidas Samba sneakers continue to be successful, thanks to the innovative collaboration with Grace Wales Bonner.
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These missives are an opportunity for connection. If your children don’t want them, that’s up to them, but give them the choice• Every week Annalisa Barbieri addresses a family-related problem sent in by a readerWe are in our mid-80s and have been together for 12 years.Our relationship journeys to our meeting point were utterly different. My partner has two marriages behind her as well as a long-term partner. Mine was a marriage of over 40 years. My partner and I were colleagues for many years...
Despite writing this letter each week, I still wonder why so few of us write real ones anymore. I was thinking of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, who corresponded frequently but met only once: ‘The present racial crisis in this country carries within it powerful destructive ingredients that may soon erupt into an uncontrollable explosion,’ More
Anne Braden (1924-2006) was a freedom fighter in the US South. She talked and walked left. Ben Wilkins’ book “Anne Braden Speaks” (Monthly Review Press 2022) is a collection of her path-breaking advocacy to form a mass movement to challenge and transcend the economic system and its handmaiden of the color line, e.g., Jim Crow More
The Ayaneo Retro Mini PC AM01 blends the performance of modern mini PCs with the retro and iconic look of the original Mac desktop computer in a package that's hard to beat, especially at this price.
Ahmed Gallab’s music isn’t easy to define. But that’s less by design and more a product of his upbringing. Better known as Sinkane, Gallab has spent his career exploring a patchwork of genres stretching from free jazz to prog rock and influences that trace back to the years he spent growing up in London, Sudan, and the United States. In his music, he draws inspiration from this background, while also untangling how it shapes his identity. “Growing up in a lot of different places allowed me...
The cast of "Civil War" joined the co-hosts of "The View" on Wednesday to discuss their new movie and explained that the film was a "love letter to journalism," as the heroes are journalists.
Billionaire Mexican drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman has written another letter to the federal judge who put him behind bars.
"Drake & Josh" star Drake Bell revealed that Brian Peck, a former Nickelodeon dialogue coach, abused him in a recent documentary called "Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV." Despite the claims made against Peck, he received a slew of support through written letters from those who had worked with him in the past. One of those people was Rider Strong, who starred in "Boy Meets World." Deadline Hollywood reported that Bell and Strong had a conversation after the revelations in the documentary...