The big loss in music this week was that of Zakir Hussain, dead at 73. I had a few chances to see the great tabla player here and there but never did. Sigh. I often find the kind of new visual story the Times does annoying,...
It's not only senior Democrats who don't know when to quit, in some cases because they're no longer capable of really knowing anything: Some Tarrant County residents have begun to.
No wonder Donald Trump and Eric Adams are becoming buds. They surround themselves with the same kind of class acts: Jeffrey Maddrey, the highest-ranking officer of the New York Police.
Rickey Henderson has died, four days short of what would have been his 66th birthday. Henderson was the first superstar of the advanced stats era, in a rather complex way, in that his astounding stolen base totals were somewhat diminished in importance by the insights of...
It's unfortunate that the belated introduction to the NCAA playoffs has started with a couple unwatchable games, but hopefully at least one of Texas/Clemson or Tennessee/OSU lives up to its.
Roosevelt signs Social Security Bill Huh, wow, well, this is good: The Senate passed bipartisan legislation early Saturday that would give full Social Security benefits to a group of public sector retirees.
So, the NFL is pissed that the NCAA is playing its first ever big 12 team playoff weekend on the Saturday before Christmas, traditionally a time when the NFL plays a couple of Saturday games. So they placed the two biggest games of the weekend on...
This piece about Vladimir Putin's successful campaign to make it illegal in Russia for people to express negative views on childbearing is a reminder that a key aspect of the.
How much prison labor goes into the making of your car? At the very least, until a few days ago if you were driving a Hyundai, the answer was likely.
This is the grave of Teresa Wright, as well as the remains of other good people who left their bodies to the Yale University School of Medicine for research purposes in training doctors. Born in 1918 in Harlem, Muriel Wright was a middle class child, the...
Some of you might not be watching football, so here's a different topic that I know moves the LGM commentariat--contemporary Chinese film. And nope. you ain't getting an open thread..
Welcome to the era of the College Football Playoffs! Finally!!!!!!! After all these years of absurdity, we finally have a semi-OK playoff season. This is far from a perfect season..