I woke up Monday morning to a voicemail message from a friend that Robert Morgenthau, the famed New York city district attorney, had died the previous evening at the age of 99.

It is hard to reconcile the harsh rhetoric coming out of the White House about illegal immigrants with the largely hard-working and law-abiding peo

If there’s one benefit of passing 75, it’s the right to keep your shoes on going through airport security.

Walking on the beach at Chappaquiddick in June a few days after my 50th college reunion, I suddenly saw the humor in all my life’s struggles.

I knew I was in trouble the moment he walked through the door.