WHEN COVID-19 hit, I quarantined in Eastern Massachusetts.

SOMEDAY WE SHALL look back at these golden October days with wonder and amazement, how good life was even in a pandemic during a lunatic time. Here in New York City, everyone wears a mask, there is a high level of civility, and though riding down Columbus Avenue feels like we’re driving acro…

“THE INDIANS are seeing 60,000 Chinese soldiers on their northern border,” Secretary of State Michael Pompeo ominously warned on Friday.

BEFORE THE first Trump-Biden debate, moderator Chris Wallace listed the six subjects that would be covered:

WHEN I was a younger man — shortly after the cooling of the Earth — I worked in and managed political campaigns. In addition to Ohio Gov. John Gilligan and Boston Mayor Kevin H. White, I worked on the presidential campaigns of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy of New York, Sen. Edmund Muskie of Maine, …

WHAT A DIFFERENCE a week can make.

THE GORGEOUS October days go parading by and you know they will end and then there’s one more, warm and golden, the Van Gogh trees, the Renoir sky: it’s beautiful but I’m an old white Anglo-Saxon Protestant male, the demographic responsible for the mess we’re in and all the messes before it.…

“A PIONEER devoted to equality.”

IT IS A TRUE accomplishment to give a perfect birthday to a beloved person and a whole gang of us managed to do this for my sweetie on Saturday, a day of perfection, beginning to end. She arose at 10 a.m. and went to bed at midnight and in those fourteen hours there were no harsh words, no s…

BY NOMINATING Federal Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, Donald Trump kept his word, and more than that.

“AS EVERYONE KNOWS, I made it clear that my first choice for the Supreme Court will make history as the first African American woman justice.”

“MOTHER EARTH IS ANGRY!” says Nancy Pelosi in my newest video.

PRESIDENT Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are on the cusp of making history.

IN THE SPRING, there was a shortage of vegetable seeds and now, I’m told, there is a shortage of canning jar lids. This doesn’t affect me, locked down in Manhattan, but it brings back memories of my childhood home, the half-acre garden, the big tomato, corn and cucumber crops, the steamy kit…

HAVING PRESIDED over the recognition of Israel by the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, President Donald Trump has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize amid talk of peace breaking out across the region.

BY ANY conventional or historical measure, the recent breakthrough between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain is a good thing, and the Trump administration deserves its share of praise for it. The refusal of much of the media to take this moment seriously only lends credibility …