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Dear Annie: I'm a 31-year-old woman and have managed a small business for four years. I'm stern but fair, very capable and very attractive. I've dealt successfully with skepticism and flirtation, and I have always maintained my dignity and friendliness. A few days ago, however, I had an ...

Froma Harrop

Some interesting numbers: New York's 13th Congressional District, covering northern Manhattan and part of the Bronx, is 52% Hispanic, 23% Black and only 14% white. Yet in June's Democratic primary, voters dumped five-term Rep. Adriano Espaillat, head of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, for ...

Froma Harrop

What exactly does it take to get Donald Trump to read a security warning? More to the point, what does it take to get him interested in an alarming one overseen by his own secretary of state, Marco Rubio? The classified memo warned that Trump pal Jensen Huang, the AI chip magnate running ...

Armstrong Williams

Abdul El-Sayed's election to the U.S. Senate is consequential. It is also a moment that calls for clear-eyed scrutiny, not panic nor complacency. The most troubling part of El-Sayed's victory is not his Muslim faith. A candidate's religion is not proof of disloyalty, extremism or hostility ...

Georgia Garvey

My dad sent me a vat of olive oil from the village in Greece recently -- by which I mean to say that he shipped it months ago, paying 30 euros to have it stacked on a slow boat from Piraeus by way of a company named after a Greek god. I had not asked for the olive oil and didn't really want ...

Guest opinion: Ransford Okley Tetteh

When we think about air pollution, most of us picture smokestacks or wildfire haze. But in the Copper Country, much of the air our children breathe from November to April is indoor air. Over a school year, a student spends more than 1,000 hours inside school buildings, and what is in that air ...