The Ninety Minutes That Made Welles Crowther a Hero.

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Welles Crowther was 24 years old, and he worked in finance, and he wore a red bandana under his work shirt because his father, a volunteer firefighter, had given it to him when he was six. He used to say it was going to help him change the world. He said it, apparently, more than once. He was a kid who meant it. On September 11, 2001, he was on the 78th floor of the South Tower when the second plane hit. He could have gone down. He went the other way. He found people in the smoke — burned,

New York Remembers. New York Also Notices.

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Zohran Mamdani is going to Ground Zero on Friday. He announced it himself, matter-of-factly, standing near a parade that had already seen three people stabbed before lunchtime. He’ll be there for the 25th anniversary of September 11th, he says, to honor “the families whose loved ones were stolen from them.” He’ll be the first Muslim mayor of New York to attend the ceremony. That’s a real thing, a historic thing. And it’s happening under a cloud he built himself. Rudy Giuliani doesn’t want him there. Neither does George Pataki. Giuliani says he’d take it personally. Pataki wants Mamdani to either

August Jobs Report Blows Past Every Prediction.

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The doomsayers had a rough Friday. The Labor Department reported that American employers added 162,000 jobs in August — nearly triple what the economists on cable news had penciled in. The consensus call, from surveys run by CNBC and The Wall Street Journal, was for a gain of around 53,000. The country blew past it. It was the strongest month of hiring since March, and it landed at a moment when a lot of people in the press had already written the labor market’s obituary. Unemployment held at 4.1%. Steady. Not creeping up, the way some had bet it would.

America, Emptying Out — On Purpose

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Something is happening in America that hasn’t happened since the 1930s. And almost nobody is talking about it the right way. The illegal immigrant population has dropped by roughly 2.3 million people since Donald Trump returned to office. Not “slowed.” Dropped. And the country’s overall population — the whole thing, all of us — is on track for a decline nobody currently walking the earth has ever seen in this country. Not since the Depression. Not since men wore hats to work and radios sat in the corner of the parlor. Steven Camarota, who runs the numbers for the Center

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