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Jacqueline Kennedy was by turns pragmatic and bereft about her husband’s seemingly compulsive sex outside of their marriage.
“If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do matters very much” — Jackie Kennedy in a 1959 interview with NBC TV
Adija watched Jennifer closely. Among the volunteers, Adija was searching for a soft heart. She had lived her 15 years in the mud brick shacks of West Africa, but she had also seen airplanes fly overhead. In two years, the volunteers would be returning to their homes in America. Adija dreamed of joining them.
Each time the United States has a new first—first woman running on a major party ticket (Hillary Clinton), six women vying for their party’s nomination (2020)—I wonder how many more countries have pulled ahead of us with a female chief executive. Seven were elected last year.
We’re at an unprecedented moment in our unwillingness to listen to each other or to recognize our shared humanity. Cocktail party chatter is kept consciously anodyne. Where is the bottom of this spiral of coarsening culture?
New York Gov. Cuomo pardoned 18 people at the end of the year in an effort to push back against the increasingly harsh immigration policies coming from the White House. The 18 committed low-level offenses and have built solid lives in the years, and sometimes decades, since their convictions. They could be our neighbors.
The Profumo Affair profoundly altered British society, emboldening the press and rocking people’s faith in their leaders.
There seems to be a connection between the frat house culture and the lopsided lack of representation of women in American political life. We need more women in politics, not fewer.
Beverly Young Nelson says then-Deputy District Attorney Roy Moore signed her high school yearbook. She alleges he offered her a ride home from her restaurant job when she was 16, then groped her and kicked her out the car door.
When a friend or an employee speaks about this, don't ignore it. And maybe, offer to put her up, or at least back her up, until she regains her pride and sense of safety.
This apparent sidelining of senior voices is troubling and just the most recent example among federal employees. A president with a vital obligation of stewardship of the nation's lands must have an open ear to the career people who've dedicated their lives to the mission.
“This book has been a piece of performance art,” I began, “conducted for a very small audience: my two daughters.” She laughed, getting my joke.
Nobody but the patient could raise this option - not a family member, not a doctor. This is self-determination at a time when fears are profound: of suffering, of prolonged existence hooked up to hospital machines.
s we wandered past the $5 discount T-shirts on the first floor at the East Northport store, I was reminded of the role of Sears in the American middle class and the evolving U.S. economy: It was long a source of decently compensated jobs, quality tools and reliable appliances, but is now high on some retail analysts' list of retailers likely to file for bankruptcy protection.
Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier, left, and six other members of Donald Trump's manufacturing advisory council resigned when the president equated white nationalist marchers with those who came out to protest them in Charlottesville, Virginia, the weekend of Aug. 12. Trump disbanded the council rather than accept the rebuke.
NY State prisons isolate about 4,500 people on any given day, which is more than 9 percent of the population and double the 4.4 percent national average. Many people spend months or years in solitary.
One mom wanted to know whether the cafeteria staff would remind her son not to eat foods he's allergic to.
As a society that wants to help people to reintegrate after doing prison time, and to give them a fair chance of success, we must "ban the box" about prior felonies before a college considers an application for admission.
After London Bridge, by inflaming division and fear, Trump traded in fear.In times of terror, a real leader would remind us of our higher human bond.
As a society, we are rethinking why and how we incarcerate people. We're contending with a soul-crushing rise in addiction to heroin, opioids, alcohol. Localities around the country are trying new ways to fight back and to rehabilitate people who commit crimes, but whose underlying problem is addiction. This is Suffolk County's window into that transformation.
I wonder where we will find the next generation of political leaders if we have to screen for such a panoply of character flaws. Weiner is smart, rose from humble beginnings, and can talk circles around his opposition. All, so it seems now, gone to waste.
I don't begrudge Ivanka for enjoying her job. I enjoy mine (most of the time). But let's not pretend that the vast majority of women don't have more practical problems.
The continued government-sponsored enthusiasm for pregnancy has begun to look like a chapter out of "The Handmaid's Tale." The 1985 Margaret Atwood novel, recently made into a Hulu series, is set in an imaginary totalitarian future in which fertile women are required to bear children to repopulate the nation.
A: These were all intelligent, accomplished, articulate women. It seemed off to me that they would play this subservient role to rescue their husbands’ careers.
President Donald Trump’s continuing assaults on cherished American ideals, like protecting the environment and providing health care, are having an intriguing side effect. His administration is keeping the outrage at a boil. Women, especially, are expressing interest in running for public office.
There's one Trump whose approval ratings are climbing fast, and it's not the guy in the Oval Office. First lady Melania Trump has picked up 16 percentage points since before the inauguration, according to a recent poll by CNN/ORC. Fifty-two percent said they have a "favorable" opinion of Trump, even as her husband's numbers remain mired in the low 40s.
As the medical community and lawmakers have responded to the crisis in opioid abuse by making the pills harder to get, there's one group whose needs are being largely neglected: the elderly.
Trump’s visit cast her as nurturing and selfless, with little risk. No tyke was going to pop up and ask whether she had permission to quote Dr. Seuss.
We're living in an age when provocation is highly rewarded. Candidate Donald Trump provoked his Republican primary competitors with epithets like "little Marco" and "low energy" Jeb Bush. In recent weeks, Milo Yiannopoulos, a website editor often identified by the title "provocateur," was rewarded with a lucrative book contract and a speaking role at the influential Conservative Political Action Conference.
“Never for a minute would I advocate that people who no longer love each other should live together because it does not bring the right atmosphere into a home,” she wrote.