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Bernadette Peters with me in the audience? On two opening nights 20 years apart? And now she’s got her own opening night in “Hello, Dolly!” on Jan. 20.

A First Congressional District candidate with a scientific background emphasizes environmental protection.

If “battling cancer” has long been a misguided metaphor, it seems spectacularly inapposite in connection with the redoubtable John McCain.

Will we no longer be able to read or see work by thieves like Jean Genet, sex offenders like Roman Polanski, or bigots like Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot?

It's time to get back to the divinity who inspired us originally — to love and forgiveness, to turning the other cheek and total nonviolence.

When I was diagnosed with lymphoma eight years ago, my search for strength and solace involved bringing as much music into my life as possible.

In the wake of Brown v. Board of Education, a grad student's deep dive into the question of equal protection vis-a-vis the integration of public schools.

During this 200th anniversary of Henry David Thoreau's birth, let's rededicate ourselves to the high value he placed on childhood.

I don’t think I can take another Thanksgiving with my overzealous, politically inclined relatives.

We don’t need Facebook or Twitter to teach us about the timeless harassment of women. Just open up the Bible.

Lessons from the Block Island Wind Farm apply to the Deepwater plan off Montauk.

The floral odyssey across northeastern Pennsylvania was part of a master plan to help my mother forget her fading body.

We are faced with a senseless one-stop shopping order that treats us like irresponsible children.

Memories of chasing stars, after-parties, and a plane falling from the sky at the Hamptons International Film Festival.

For a while I liked having the fine art catalogs around, for making collages and turning into Christmas cards. The problem, of course, was the prices.

Where is that wayward but always underfoot shadow of a dog? And can a brother be forgiven for believing his late sister lives on in her pet?

I just lost a good bit of the sight in one eye, and in this ephemeral time of adaptation my brain is learning how to weave information together in a new way.

The oceans absorb about a third of the carbon dioxide emitted from burning fossil fuels, making seawater more acidic and in turn impairing shell formation and stressing corals.

If a renewed appreciation for home is the criterion, then my cruise last summer was an A+, a proverbial 10 out of 10, Success with a capital S.

For the last 23 years, first thing every morning and last thing every night, I check up on my fantasy baseball team — good news, bad news, mixed bag.

While the realtor in chief was not condemning the terror in Charlottesville, thereby condoning it, on the grounds of the Bridgehampton Childcare and Recreational Center, in the heart of the black community, life was happening.

What if you came from a society where philanthropy, volunteerism, and “giving back” — all the things we do so naturally here — were shunned?

In “Reductionism in Art and Brain Science: Bridging the Two Cultures,” Eric Kandel says they can be brought together by looking at overlaps in perception.

Republicans in Congress need to feel that people who are actually going to vote for them want action on global warming.

This year the gals and I will visit Lourdes, the famous French healing shrine. It’s practically an emergency. The group is falling apart.

Bummy Davis, shot dead outside his own bar at age 26, could've become a welterweight champ.

The hard of hearing face two fundamental questions: Under what circumstances do we conceal, concede, or actively discuss our deafness, and under what circumstances will we strive to hear or allow ourselves not to hear?

Thirty years ago in Lhasa, my life took a turn when Chinese police fired on unarmed Tibetans. Now, my documentary, "Eye of the Lammergeier," will premiere at the Madrid International Film Festival.

Among some of us who live past the biblical age of three score and 10, there is a quaint Jewish belief that we have entered a “second childhood,” so we honor the 70th anniversary of that first bar mitzvah with another one.

Late in life, Joseph Campbell said the age of the hero’s journey was over, but a new story has found us. It's called climate change, mass extinction, the Anthropocene.