Joe Mathews

East Coast American’s warring over the dates 1619 and 1776 should take a look at 1848 out West | COMMENTARY

October 4, 2021 at 4:33 a.m.

America, in your polarizing debate over which year marks the real beginning of the U.S. — 1619 (slavery's arrival) or 1776 (Declaration of Independence) — you've got the dates all...

Donald Sterling, tarnished [Commentary]

June 7, 2019 at 7:17 a.m.

Late in Quentin Tarantino's 1994 film "Pulp Fiction," Marsellus Wallace — a criminal boss played by Ving Rhames — banishes prizefighter Butch Coolidge (Bruce Willis) from Southern California, telling him...

Donald Sterling, tarnished [Commentary]

June 4, 2019 at 6:53 a.m.

Thompson drops out of race

October 26, 2018 at 3:35 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- Actor and former senator Fred Thompson abandoned his presidential campaign yesterday, making an early exit from a race that he entered perhaps too late to gain traction in...

Hagel won’t run for re-election to Senate

October 27, 2018 at 5:55 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel, an outspoken Republican critic of the war in Iraq who this year flirted with running for president, has decided not to seek re-election, congressional...

Schwarzenegger takes oath as Calif. governor

January 30, 2019 at 4:13 p.m.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger took the oath as California's 38th governor yesterday, vowing to upend the political culture and humble the special interests through decisive action that would...

California’s crazy quilt of politics frays

January 30, 2019 at 4:26 p.m.

Arnold Schwarzenegger announces he's running for governor -- on the "Tonight Show." From his wheelchair, Larry Flynt says he'll be the next governor because Californians are progressive enough to elect...

Every time a bell rings Town: Folks here say they believe in angels and ‘It’s a Wonderful Life,’ because it’s their story.

October 22, 2018 at 9:58 p.m.

SENECA FALLS, N.Y. -- Angels in white lights hover above Bedford Falls Boulevard. George Bailey waves to the town from a second-floor shop window. Two blocks away, a bronze plaque...

A rebirth of trust in Harlem Entrepreneurship, pragmatism fuel an upscale transformation

October 23, 2018 at 12:37 a.m.

NEW YORK -- The phone in Van Woods' office on Lenox Avenue is scratched from overuse, rung out by the new Harlem renaissance. Line one is Woods' mother calling from...

Escape from New York When a police bullet took one of Roma Cedeno’s twin boys, she became a reluctant symbol. Then, a little too late, she became an expatriate.

October 23, 2018 at 1:38 a.m.

NEW YORK -- When the news broke this summer that a Haitian immigrant had been sodomized with a toilet plunger by New York City police officers in Brooklyn, several Big...

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