Passionate Parenting
What a rock through a car window taught me about parenting in a pandemic
By Jared Bilski

Whenever you feel like you can't deal with one more thing, a child will be right there to say, "Oh yes you can, buddy. And I'm here to prove it."

Must-Know Info
Thinking about a remote-work trip? Consider these tips first
By Natalie B. Compton

No longer tied to an office, more people are working away from their hometown. Here's a checklist for before you go

Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
The Kosher Gourmet
By Ellie Krieger

One unlikely fruit makes this summer pudding the berry best

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• Chip Bok

• A.F. Branco

• A.F. Branco BONUS!

• Tim Campbell

• John Cole

• Matt Davies

• Jake Fuller

• Ed Gamble

• Bob Gorrell

• Dave Granlund

• Joe Heller

• Steve Kelley

• Peter Kuper

• Rick McKee

• Tom Stiglich

• Gary Varvel

• Dave Whamond

• Michael Ramirez

• Michael Ramirez BONUS!

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On this day in . . .

• 1787, the Continental Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance establishing governing rules for the Northwest Territory. It also establishes procedures for the admission of new states and limits the expansion of slavery

• 1793, French revolutionary writer Jean Paul Marat was stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday

• 1863, New York City draft riots: in New York, New York, opponents of conscription begin three days of rioting which will be later regarded as the worst in United States history.

• 1878, the European powers redraw the map of the Balkans. Serbia, Montenegro and Romania become completely independent of the Ottoman empire

• 1898, Guglielmo Marconi was awarded a patent for wireless telegraphy, the radio

• 1919, the British airship R34 lands in Norfolk, England, completing the first airship return journey across the Atlantic in 182 hours of flight

• 1923, the Hollywood Sign is officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood, Los Angeles. It originally reads "Hollywoodland " but the four last letters are dropped after renovation in 1949

• 1973, Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of the Nixon tapes to the special Senate committee investigating the Watergate break in

• 1977, in New York ,amidst a period of financial and social turmoil experiences an electrical blackout lasting nearly 24 hours that leads to widespread fires and looting

• 1978, Lee Iacocca was fired as president of Ford Motor Co. by chairman Henry Ford II

• 1979, a 45-hour siege by practitioners of that "religion of peace" began at the Egyptian Embassy in Ankara, Turkey, killing two guards and taking some 20 hostages. (The guerrillas surrendered 45 hours later.)

• 1985, the Constitution's presidential disability clause was invoked for the first time as President Ronald Reagan transferred power temporarily to Vice President George H.W. Bush before undergoing surgery for colon cance. ALSO: "Live Aid," an international rock concert in London, Philadelphia, Moscow and Sydney, took place to raise money for Africa's starving people

• 1990, the U.S. Senate gave final legislative approval to a bill that would forbid discrimination based on disability, including that caused by AIDS or alcoholism. President George H.W. Bush signed the measure into law July 26

• 1998, a jury in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., ruled that the Rev. Al Sharpton and two others had defamed a former prosecutor by accusing him of raping Tawana Brawley. Oddly, Sharpton is still invited as a guest on cable TV and conservative talk radio

• 2001, a judge in San Jose, Calif., sentenced Andrew Burnett, the man who'd tossed a fluffy little dog to its death in a bout of road rage, to the maximum three years behind bars

• 2003, the new 25-member Iraqi council, representing all major religious and ethnic groups in the country, had its first meeting in a major step toward self-government. ALSO: A senior U.S. official said North Korea apparently had begun reprocessing spent nuclear fuel rods, suggesting the country planned to produce nuclear weapons

• 2005, former WorldCom Inc. boss Bernard Ebbers was sentenced to 25 years in prison for leading the largest corporate fraud in U.S. history. ALSO, a fuel gauge that mistakenly read full instead of empty forced NASA to call off the first shuttle launch in 2 1/2 years

• 2008, the U.S. Treasury Department announced a plan to save two major government-backed mortgage companies known as Fannie Mac and Freddie Mac with billions of dollars in investments and loans

• 2010, four months before the 2010 midterm elections, 58 percent of voters surveyed in a Washington Post-ABC News poll indicated doubt in U.S. President Barack Obama's leadership

• 2011, three coordinated bombings in India's busy financial capital killed 26 people in the worst terror attack in the country since the 2008 Mumbai siege

• 2013, neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman was acquitted in the 2012 shooting death of black teenager Trayvon Martin in a gated community in Florida. The case provoked a national debate on "stand your ground" laws and racial profiling

• 2014, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell met privately with dozens of governors as the Obama administration tried to get support from states that would host thousands of Central American children who were sent by their parents to weasel their way illegally into America via the Mexican border

• 2019, a power outage crippled the heart of Manhattan just as Saturday night Broadway shows were set to go on, sending theatergoers into the streets and bringing subways to a near halt; electricity was restored by about midnight

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NOW's the time to laugh! by Argus Hamilton

Michael Reagan: A timely family history lesson

Joel Zinberg, M.D., J.D.: Death By Policy: Mortality statistics show that many people have died from lockdown-related causes, not from Covid-19

Froma Harrop: Who Doesn't Use Cash? More People Than Ever

Monica Hesse: America's confused obsession with Mary Kay Letourneau

Mitch Albom: The truth about black NFL players' wrist slap over public anti-Semitism

• Mallard Filmore

• ESPN suspends Adrian Wojnarowski, its top NBA reporter, after profane email to GOP senator

• This female senator has (basket)balls; won't embrace Black Lives Matter, despite pressure still refusing to sell stake in WNBA team

• Everything is fine and normal --- just ask the mannequin at the next table

David Weigel: How a bipartisan stimulus became a political stumbling block

Jeff Jacoby: As night descends on Hong Kong, the UN raises no objection

Conor Sen: Markets may have a reason to rise along with covid-19 cases

Jack Dunphy: Demoralizing the Police: As cops become objects of derision and scorn, violent crime soars in American cities

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