It’s a lucky guy who has a friend like Paul Lindstrom, who shares his Giants pre-season tickets. Thanks, pal. It was a typically inconsistent pre=season game, but it was great to get out, and to spend time with Paul and his daughter Nadia, and to see the Giants prevail over the Jacksonville Jaguars. Above: Paul …
As transcribed by Dave Itzkoff of the Times, delivered on August 6, 2015::
Buzz Aldrin’s Travel Voucher for his trip to the moon in 1969
These are hardly the most terrible pictures that emerged from 9/11, not by a long shot. And yet for images that live at that messy nexus between culpability and helplessness, it’s hard to beat these images that were taken at the White House on that awful, awful day.
Many people were surprised that Donald Trump shot to the top of the Republican presidential polls (in an NBC poll today, he has 19% percent, to Scott Walker‘s 15% and Jeb Bush‘s 14%), but that’s only because they allowed their own tastes to prevent them from getting an accurate view of this gargantuan personality. Trump …
This morning, South Carolina finally removed the Confederate flag from the grounds of its statehouse. At long last, he rebel flag has finally fallen. Not everywhere, of course. But to see it go down here, in the cradle of rebellion, means one thing: it has lost its power to enthrall and intimidate. The cause is …