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If you know that the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything is “42,” then today’s Google Doodle may have been your favorite of all-time. If you remember that "How many roads must a man walk down?" is the answer to the next deep mystery -- which was a Jeopardy-esque query as to what “42” could possibly be the answer to -- then the odds are even better.

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Mark Wilson is a New York political cartoonist and illustrator who lives in the Adirondacks. He publishes under the pen name Marquil.

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Picture this: a room full of distinguished United Nations delegates busy at work—debating, dealing and drinking. Not just a casual cocktail over dinner, either. Falling down drunk. Pretty soon, a DWI will stand for “delegating while intoxicated.”

At least that’s the suggestion behind a “modest proposal” made by American diplomat Joseph M. Torsella. Earlier this week, Torsella proposed banning...

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has been babbling since midday, filibustering the nomination of John Brennan to be the new director of the CIA with a little help from his Senate colleagues.

Beginning with a promise to “speak until I no longer can,” Paul says that he will not “sit quietly and let President Obama shred the Constitution” with drones. So far, Paul has gone through an entire binder of notes....

You probably didn’t know that the person who decides whether consumers can legally unlock their cell phones is also the nation’s top librarian.

Yes, the Library of Congress has control over certain copyright matters, and this particular issue falls under the institution’s jurisdiction.

That why in a world saturated by rapidly changing digital technology, public policy on the topic has...

Just when one development increases confidence in air travel, another shakes that faith.

Air travelers will be allowed to board commercial planes with small knives and hockey sticks, a couple of golf clubs and similar sports equipment in tow starting April 25. TSA officials said permitting those currently banned carry-ons will allow its officers to focus on more serious security threats. Things...

We are, before anything else, human beings.

That comes before our status as employees of a company, or members of a profession, or part of any kind of group. We are, first and foremost, human beings, members of society, part of a community.

And we need to help others when they need it, and if we can.

In California last week that didn’t happen, and an 87-year-old woman died, possibly...

Score one for the Dems.

Democrats on the Westchester County Board of Legislators won one of its many legal challenges against County Executive Rob Astorino.

This latest suit was a dispute over an appointment to the Board of Acquisition and Contracts, a powerful trio historically made up of the county executive, the county board chairman and the public works commissioner, an Astorino...

The city of Detroit has been on the skids for decades, and Friday it finally tumbled into the financial abyss. Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder announced he would appoint an emergency manager to take over the city’s troubled finances.

A booming auto industry hub of 1.8 million people in the 1950s, Detroit now has just 700,000 residents. With boarded-up homes, darkened streets, high crime, inadequate...