I Hate to Break It to Ya, Aisle-Seat-Lovers, but the Window Seat Is Actually the Best Alright, I’m just gonna come right out and say it: the window seat is the best seat on any airplane, and if you disagree,…
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Opinion: For Giants, now comes the painful rebuild. Start with trading Madison Bumgarner
SAN FRANCISCO — Open the door into the San Francisco Giants clubhouse and you’ll see the World Series championship years painted high on the wall. The left side of the hallway is a picture of their recent three World Series…
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Opinion: If Caster Semenya penalized for her biology, what’s next? Height limits?
Discrimination is never OK, and even the noblest of intentions cannot excuse it. Remember that as you read the decision by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on South African runner Caster Semenya. CAS said Wednesday that international track…
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Opinion: As Kentucky Derby week starts, here’s what the drug Lasix does, why it’s controversial
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — As horse racing makes its annual re-entry into the mainstream this week with the Kentucky Derby, the public will discover a sport that has managed to one-up its regular level of dysfunction in recent weeks. At the…
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Opinion: Jazz star Donovan Mitchell is special, and he deserves more praise
Donovan Mitchell had just scored 31 points — 19 of them in the fourth quarter — to keep his Utah Jazz alive in their first-round playoff series with the Houston Rockets. His response? "Forget me. Jae Crowder played his ass off. … He's…
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Opinion: Spurs should rename arena ‘Batcave’ after mammal invasion sparks home win streak
Sometimes a story is so unusual that you shake your head while you’re typing its opening line. So here goes: The San Antonio Spurs can’t stop winning since their stadium got invaded by Mexican free-tailed bats. That’s right, since a…
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One way to make NYCHA clean up
You can’t say Lynne Patton isn’t making life better for NYCHA tenants: As regional administrator for the federal housing department, she’s been forcing cleanups in one project after another . . . by living there. After a delay thanks to the federal…
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The demented FBI bid to oust Trump
It’s too early to take away any clear lessons from the Trump era, except one: Whatever you do, never fire the FBI Director. Yes, as president, it is fully within your power to cashier inferior executive-branch officers. But if the…
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Democrats are tearing themselves apart over Amazon
Democrats are fighting mad — at each other. For once, President Trump is not the prime target of their rage. Amazon’s decision to scrap plans for an HQ2 campus in New York sent the circular firing squad into action. The…
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Leaving Afghanistan and Syria is a mistake we’ll regret
‘Great nations do not fight endless wars,” President Trump declared in his State of the Union Address. It was a line that could have been delivered by President Barack Obama, who in 2015 memorably said, “I do not support the…
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Opinion: LeBron & Co. left with chemistry problem as NBA trade deadline passes
LOS ANGELES — The tug-of-war between the Lakers and Pelicans over Anthony Davis is on hiatus until summer and a new reality has enveloped Los Angeles. The Lakers now are stuck with what they’ve got – players who feel like little…
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No gray areas are left anywhere: The lesson of Ralph Northam’s fall
Ralph Northam deserves his current friendless state. The Virginia governor’s initial reaction to a shocking image of a man in black face standing next to someone dressed in a Klan outfit that appeared on his page of his medical school…
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The push for legal-until-birth abortion and other commentary
Urban observer: Under de Blasio, a Return to Disorder New York City “is in the throes of disorder,” with law-abiding citizens finding themselves “harassed by growing vagrancy, petty criminality and social decay,” charges Craig Trainor at City Journal. Indeed, today’s…
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The abortion debate: The RHA legalizes infanticide
In New York hospitals, you can find premature newborn babies surrounded by dedicated doctors and nurses fighting to save their lives. Next door, you now might find physicians and non-physicians alike giving lethal injections to babies the same age, thanks…
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