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The Age of Reason, as Thomas Paine penned it, was in the late 1790s. Today, we are immersed in the Age of No Good Reason. Last month ViacomCBS began layoffs of 450 employees from all parts of the company. I know a few of the victims, solid news and sports folks now sweating rent while …

You ask, we answer. The Post is fielding questions from readers about New York’s biggest pro sports teams and getting our beat writers to answer them in a series of regularly published mailbags. In today’s installment: the Knicks. Would the hiring of Tom Thibodeau as NY Knicks head coach prevent them from potentially acquiring Karl-Anthony …

“I’ll Be Gone in the Dark” director Liz Garbus says producers felt a great deal of responsibility when turning the late author Michelle McNamara’s book into a docuseries. “True crime has become such an explosive industry and one of the things we wanted people to understand was how seminal her work was,” Garbus explained during …

Following the initial backlash of her casting as a judge on HBO’s ballroom voguing competition show “Legendary,” Jameela Jamil says she and fellow judge Megan Thee Stallion are “the voice of the audience.” “I think some people are confused and they expect all of the judges to be experts, which is completely understandable, but I …

After ditching the moderator’s question during the virtual “Perry Mason” ATX TV panel, Chris Chalk explained why the upcoming HBO series is so important to him. “I grew up watching re-runs of ‘Perry Mason’ and a lot of old black and white stuff and I liked it, but I didn’t love it and I didn’t …

A series by Joel Sherman chronicles how the Yankees’ fiasco of 1990 laid the groundwork for a dynasty. The Yankees won fewer games every year from their 97 in 1985 to 85 in 1988. But if you wanted to believe there was still a strong contender assembled, sure, you could believe that. Rickey Henderson, Don …

Two members of the South Carolina National Guard suffered serious injuries in a lightning strike in Washington D.C. early Friday morning  They were on duty at Lafayette Square as protesters gathered for the seventh night  They were not directly hit by the bolt but felt its effects Both are in a stable condition in hospital  An …

A. G. Sulzberger, the publisher of the New York Times, told colleagues in a virtual town hall Friday that an op-ed written by Senator Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) was “contemptuous” in tone and “should not have been published.” The comments come after Sulzberger wrote an email to his staff Thursday morning defending the publishing of …

Former vice president Joe Biden estimated Thursday that about “10 to 15 percent of the people out there” are “just not very good people” and accused President Trump of dividing the nation, adding that as president he would bring Americans together. “The words a president says matter, so when a president stands up and divides people …

The New York Times announced on Thursday that it would look into changing its process for commissioning and accepting opinion columns after the paper drew backlash for carrying an op-ed by Senator Tom Cotton (R., Ark.). In the op-ed, Cotton called for President Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act in order to send federal troops into …