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Politics and law Every citizen fatality in the custody of a government official—like George Floyd’s excruciating death in Minneapolis—deserves a solemn response and ultimate accounting, including both criminal investigation and broader assessment. The fear and fury flowing from recent law-enforcement casualties, however, have been inflamed and manipulated by opportunists to produce something much more sweeping. Hard facts and data about our systems of law and policing are being ignored. Emotional hysteria is increasingly substituted for reasoned problem-solving. There is enormous pressu...

‘Write America’ Invites A Nation To Heal Through Its Authors 2 Photos Alice McDermott Annette Hinkle on Feb 1, 2021 In the days and weeks following the 2020 presidential election, writer and Quogue resident Roger Rosenblatt began to feel a distinct sense of unease. “When Biden and Harris won and Trump started his malevolent mischief — around November 10 or 11, a week after the election when all the results were in — the news went to riots in various cities where Trump-inspired thugs were fighting those who were celebrating,” Rosenblatt recalled. “The visual impact from that w...

Geraldo show. thank you for being here tonight. you both watch this president closely and watched politics closely for years. it strikes me when we get to election time we often look back at some of these points of changes and pivots. carl, do you see that as one of those, or not? >> well, it could be because he struck a different tone last night that i think was very helpful to him. optimistic, bipartisan, we're going to work together. as lance morrow said in that beautiful essay, he struck notes of patriotism, recalling the landing on the moon. buzz aldrin was in the audience. d day. interes...