© Mac Conner. Courtesy of the artist

Mac Conner, “Illustration for ‘Let's Take a Trip Up the Nile’ in This Week Magazine,” ca. 1950

ARTS+ ›

Standing Tall in Wuppertal

By ANN SAUL, Special to the Sun
December 20, 2014

Camille Pissarro- Father of Impressionism, on view at the Von der Heydt Museum in Wuppertal, Germany, presents a number of pieces from Camille Pissarro’s (1830-1903) oeuvre that are not well known to the public. The comprehensive retrospective…

Pop Sincerity

By SIMON CARR, Special to the Sun
December 16, 2014

Mac Conner: A New York Life, in its final weeks at the Museum of the City of New York, is an exhibition not to miss. Illustrations by McCauley (“Mac”) Conner (b. 1913), a figure the museum calls “one of New York’s original ‘Mad Men,’ ” vividly evoke…

Untamed Rousseau

By SIMON CARR, Special to the Sun
December 6, 2014

In the 19th century, America's vast tracts of unspoiled landscape inspired artists like Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900) and Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902) to create spectacular paintings of a virgin land for an enthusiastic public. Meanwhile, across…

NATIONAL ›

Thunder Out of Egypt:
Ridley Scott Directs
Rollicking Good ‘Exodus’

By SETH LIPSKY, From the New York Post
December 19, 2014

That I would love the movie “Exodus: Gods and Kings” I knew from the moment I read the verdict of the reviewers — they hated it. The New York Times complained that the Egyptian oppressors wear “heavy eye-liner” and that the women “mostly stand around…

As Congress Lawyers Up
Harvard’s Cass Sunstein
Defends the Technocrats

By IRA STOLL, Special to the Sun
December 16, 2014

How much power should a president have? Anyone who thought America settled that question late in the 18th Century with the ratification of the Constitution hasn’t been paying attention to the news. The Speaker, John Boehner, has hired law professor…

Winners and Losers Emerge
From the 1,695 Pages
Of the $1.1 Trillion Budget

By BETSY McCAUGHEY, Special to the Sun
December 15, 2014

If you want to know how your tax dollars will get spent next year, the answers are in Cromnibus—the 1,695 page bill that Congress hurriedly passed last weekend to fund the federal government through September 2015. Republicans won big with Cromnibus…

TOP STORIES

Mayor de Blasio’s First Mistake

Editorial of The New York Sun
December 29, 2014

How is Mayor de Blasio going to defuse the tension with the New York Police Department? Mayor Giuliani is urging him to apologize for giving the impression that he sided with protesters against the deaths black men who have — here and elsewhere —died…

How Jeb Bush Handles
Question of Pope Francis
Could Be Teaching Moment

By IRA STOLL, Special to the Sun
December 29, 2014

How will Jeb Bush handle the Catholic question? A new poll shows the former governor of Florida, brother of President Bush 43 and son of President Bush 41, leading the field of potential 2016 Republican presidential candidates. The poll comes just as…

Yes, Virginia . . .

Editorial of The New York Sun
December 24, 2014

We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun: Dear Editor— I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say…

No Wonder Miss O’Hanlon
Wrote to the New York Sun
Instead of the Times

By SETH LIPSKY, From the New York Post
December 24, 2014

Yes, it’s true. The New York Times really did publish just before Christmas this year a piece mocking the Sun’s reply to Virginia O’Hanlon. Her father had suggested she write to the Sun inquiring about whether there really is a St. Nick. “Yes,” the…

Kaboom?

Editorial of The New York Sun
December 23, 2014

“Kaboom! Dow 18K” is the headline atop the Drudge Report. It links to a story on the Bloomberg wire reporting that the Dow Jones Industrial Average “rallied past 18,000 for the first time, after data showed the world’s largest economy grew at the…

EDITORIALS ›

One City?

Editorial of The New York Sun
December 22, 2014

It’s hard to think of a moment in New York quite like that in which a long line of police — the city’s Finest — turn their backs on Mayor de Blasio as he makes his way into the press conference in respect of the two officers assassinated Sunday at Brooklyn.

For Jose Marti

Editorial of The New York Sun
December 17, 2014

Let us take the moment of President Obama’s betrayal of Free Cuba to step back a bit — back to say, May 19, 1895. That’s when the tribune of Cuba Libre, Jose Marti, was killed in combat against the Spanish Royalists at the Battle of Dos Rios. His body…

Krugman’s Tea Party?

Editorial of The New York Sun
December 15, 2014

“You sometimes hear claims that the Tea Party is as opposed to bailing out bankers as it is to aiding the poor, but there’s no sign that this alleged hostility to Wall Street is having any influence at all on Republican priorities.” * * * That’s how…

FOREIGN ›

In a Lucky Bounce
Saudi’s Oil Strategy
Puts Pressure on Putin

By CONRAD BLACK, Special to the Sun
December 20, 2014

Responses to the decline in world oil prices have been mystifying — flummoxing, in fact. The secretary general of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, Abdullah Al-Badri, said last week that speculation was to blame for the decline by 15%…

How Saudia Arabia’s Gift
Of Plunging Oil Prices
Saves Christmas Season

By CONRAD BLACK, Special to the Sun
December 18, 2014

Almost the only G-20 government that is behaving sensibly is that of Saudi Arabia. As the sun sets with agonizing dilatoriness on the Obama administration, there is no sign of a resurrection of fiscal sanity, of any concern to reform “Affordable…

Palestinian Rights Activist
Exposes U.N. Duplicity
At Relief and Works Agency

By JEROLD AUERBACH, Special to the Sun
December 8, 2014

The scam perpetrated by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency ever since 1949 has finally been exposed. Defining itself as “a relief and human development agency,” its jurisdiction extends only to Palestinian refugees from the war waged by Arab…


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