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August 1, 2016 by

The Great Issues Were Not Raised In This Campaign

“Can’t Anybody Here Play This Game?” was the title of a 1963 book by Jimmy Breslin about the disastrous first year of the New York Mets, an expansion team. It’s attributed to the team’s manager Casey Stengel. As I’ve watched this picaresque presidential election year unfold, I’ve had the same thought. The game is governance; the campaign, […]

Is COVID-19 Killing New York, America’s Iconic City?

Llewellyn King

NEW YORK — Alistair Cooke, the great British journalist who wrote his weekly “Letter from America” — a paean to the United States — for 58 years, reserved some of his most lavish praise for Manhattan. When Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet leader, visited America and wanted to see Disney World, Cooke told him he’d never […]

Amy Coney Barrett Is The Right Judge at the Wrong Time

Llewellyn King

It’s not a trial. But the hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee into the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court seemed like one. This juror’s verdict: Guilty as charged in one liberal indictment and a toss-up in the other. Judge Barrett seems destined to vote to overturn Roe v. Wade. But on […]

The Bleak Winter Ahead: Unemployment and a Contested Election Result

Llewellyn King

A winter of discontent looms. Unlike Shakespeare’s Richard III, it won’t be made glorious by anything now in sight. Instead, it promises a tsunami of misery for many and the ugliest election in U.S. history. At a time which calls for new energy, new thinking and a recasting of the social contract, two old men […]