Steven Long
The Archive
AS CIVILIANS JOIN FIGHT VS. MILITIAS ; IRAQ DEATHS ARE FALLING
October 24, 2007 | 9:00amAFP/Getty ImagesGRASS ROOTS:Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch attributes the decline in fatalities in Iraq to a turn against extremists. BAGHDAD - October is on course to record the second consecutive decline...
BIG BLOW TO IRAQI QAEDA
June 1, 2007 | 9:00amBAGHDAD - U.S. soldiers battled al Qaeda in Iraq's capital yesterday after Sunni residents challenged the militants - and called for America's help in ending the gunfire that has kept...
THE IMMIGRATION BILL: SEEKING SKILLS
May 21, 2007 | 9:00amWILL America make a historic shift to an immigration policy based on merit? The bill that the Senate's to start debating this week promises just that. Such a change would...
BRUTAL AND GRISLY TRUTH OF GARDEN STATE'S REAL 'SOPRANOS'
April 8, 2007 | 9:00amThe real Sopranos - the crime family of Ruggerio "Richie the Boot" Boiardo - were less introspective, more violent and a lot less glamorous than Tony's fictional mob, according to...
THE RIGHT RECORD
February 18, 2007 | 10:00amNOT since Teddy Roosevelt took on Tammany Hall a century ago has a New York politician closely linked to urban reform looked like presidential timber. But today, ex-New York mayor...
SCARE SCIENCE
February 15, 2007 | 10:00amTHE highly publicized recent death of re tired New York City police officer and Ground Zero worker Cesar A. Borja has all but cemented yet another junk-science-fueled myth in the...
GOV'S GIMMICKS WON'T FIX JERSEY
January 12, 2007 | 10:00amNEW Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine's State of the State Address Tuesday was déjà vu all over again. He repeated his promise, made during his elec tion campaign and again in...
MIND GAMES - SPEKTOR TRIES TO RECALL CATALOG
April 3, 2005 | 5:00amForgive Regina Spektor if she doesn't play your favorite song - she may not remember how it goes. The prolific singer-songwriter has written so many musical vignettes since she finished...
SCREAM TEAM - WELSH ROCKERS MCLUSKY BRING IN THE PUNK
June 20, 2004 | 4:00amHE may not be in the pantheon of rock gods with the likes of Robert Plant and Chris Cornell, but when it comes to screaming, Mclusky lead singer Andy Falkous...
SINGING O.J. TUNES UP FOR TRIAL
October 11, 2001 | 4:00amO.J. Simpson wasn't talking yesterday as prospective jurors were being screened for his Miami road-rage trial, but he sure was singing. The notorious former grid great stepped up to the...
WE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN
September 12, 2001 | 4:00amWASHINGTON WE were horrified, in our newsrooms yesterday, when one, and then two, airliners plowed into the World Trade Centers. Then a third plane crashed, into the Pentagon. We continued...
PREVENTION BETTER THAN CURE
February 14, 2000 | 5:00amWITH the gunfire from Columbine High School still ringing in our ears and images of dead and wounded schoolchildren and teachers fresh in our minds, pre-emptive action to help prevent...
CHALLENGES FOR THE NEXT CHANCELLOR
December 29, 1999 | 5:00amWith Rudy Crew departing, The Post has asked New York education experts, advocates and powerbrokers for their views on the city schools. Steven Sanders (D-Manhattan), chairman of the state Assembly's...