In the expectations game that is American politics, losing is the new winning. Republicans are putting their would-be House speaker…
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The painter Joan Mitchell, who died in 1992 at the age of 67, saved the best for last. In this…
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Cecilia Marshall, who as an NAACP stenographer transcribed the legal briefs for the Brown v. Board of Education decision and…
Jennifer Kopp decided early, when she was a child growing up in public housing in the Sheepshead Bay neighborhood of…
Chanel Sowell, an administration support specialist at a university in Raleigh, N.C., spends a few days each week working part-time…
About 10 months ago, Laura Brown put on an emerald green suit and walked into an East Village art gallery,…
It is hard to overstate just how much of a jolt to the political system Sarah Palin delivered when she…