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The famous forgers who fooled everyone — even the experts
In the words of Cole Porter, “Is it the good turtle soup or merely the mock?”
Jimmy Kimmel should emulate 'Tonight Show' creator Steve Allen — on late-night TV AND politics
Jimmy Kimmel could learn how to disagree without being so disagreeable from the comedian who launched late-night television. Letters from “The Tonight Show” founding host Steve Allen I discovered in...
Columbus was a hero who heightened humanity’s horizons — Mamdani, show some respect
Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday he wants the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission to designate two Christopher Columbus statues. He deserves thanks for agreeing to take a long-overdue step to preserve...
Europe’s newest leader faces tough tests — pay heed, America and Ukraine
When citizens of the Czech Republic voted in their country’s crucial parliamentary elections last weekend, they were deciding more than their own democracy’s future. They were also determining the fate...
Give me liberty: America doesn’t need a Trump coin — or any other presidential currency
George Washington refused to allow his image on the nation’s coins because it would be too “monarchical.” But will the Trump administration rise above that old superstition with a new...
Incredible secret subway predated NYC's official subway by decades
In the late 1800s, one crazy inventor started digging.
Heartbreak and hope reporting on the Oct. 7 beat
After 14 years of writing at The Post, I never considered myself to have any one beat — happily covering a wide cast of quirky New York characters and their...
America must stop aiding our enemies by enabling the shadowy world of dirty cash
Global corruption has exploded in scale and scope, threatening international stability and American national security. As the Trump administration goes to war against Venezuelan drug traffickers, we must confront that...
TV anchor's new book is an inspiring love letter to a father who gave all to fix his son
At 43 years old, married and a national cable-TV anchor, I still call my dad every evening to say good night — and that's after having talked a few times...
Freedom’s feisty fighter: Angelo Codevilla’s scrappy rise from penniless immigrant to MAGA guru
At a time of war abroad and political violence at home, a new book called “Fighting Enemies Foreign and Domestic” couldn’t be more relevant. Or could it? This slender volume...
Jane Goodall’s work is helping upend our understanding of human nature
Jane Goodall died Wednesday. As she was universally regarded as the greatest living expert on chimpanzees, her passing is a momentous event. It’s one that comes at a time of...
There’s only one way to end TSA's political weaponization of surveillance
Only in Washington would an edict to banish all dissidents be labeled Operation Freedom to Breathe. The Transportation Security Administration in 2021 created a secret watchlist of individuals who publicly...
'Saturday Night Live' photographer on snapping Paul Simon, Lily Tomlin and Steve Martin back in the day
Shutterbug Edie Baskin has a new book out of her iconic portraits.
Killa in Manila: Why the legendary Ali-Frazier fight still thrills 50 years on
“Looks like your little face, don’t it?”
The UN promotes Iran’s executioner president — proving its own fecklessness
The Trump administration barred Iranian diplomats in New York for the United Nations General Assembly from shopping at Costco and buying luxury items without permission, ending their annual celebration of...
Charlie Kirk’s murder unmasks the myth of the dangerous evangelical
“Christofascist.” “Hateful.” “Violent.”Leftists have ominously warned for a decade one group of people represent a unique threat to the American experiment: conservative...
White guilt has Massachusetts on the brink of a historic mistake
Symbols matter. Just ask Cracker Barrel. One day you’re playing peg solitaire and selling catfish. A logo redesign later and you’ve lost $100 million in shareholder value. That doesn’t count...
A covert FBI agent smuggled $1B in cocaine to crush Colombian cartels — and lived to tell the tale
Martin Suarez returned from a morning run in his Puerto Rican gated community in August 1994 to an assassin emerging from the shadows, a Smith & Wesson revolver heavy in...
Russia’s provocations outside Ukraine demand action
Every airspace violation costs Russia a few thousand dollars in fuel. Every NATO response costs millions in scrambled fighters and emergency meetings — and infinitely more in damaged credibility when the...
Pig hearts, fish skin and finger-penises: The shocking science of replacing human body parts
We are living in an era of "discoveries that feel at once wondrous, improbable, and surreal," writes Mary Roach in her new book.