New York Post

6 Years, 6 Months, 19 Days

It's now more than six years since the 9/11 attacks, yet al Qaeda's leader Osama Bin Laden remains at large.

A slew of video and audiotapes, referencing current events and analyzed by the US government, indicate he's still alive. And his recent appearances have silenced most of the rumors about ill health.

The question, then, is should Americans care? After all, Osama doesn't run his terrorist organization as he did before the fall of the Taliban.

Unfortunately, Bin Laden remains all too relevant.… more

Peter Bergen | New York Post | March 30, 2008

Rourke O'Brien in the New York Post on Opportunity NYC

More than 1,400 families have collected $740,000 in the first payout from the city's daring two-year experiment that rewards the poor with hard cash for doing good, officials said yesterday.

Another 919 families who enrolled in the "conditional cash transfer" program did not qualify by the first cutoff date, Nov. 15.

But city officials called the initial results of Opportunity NYC a success, noting that the first-in-the-nation initiative had been launched within months of being proposed and is now fully operational. ...

Rourke O'Brien, an asset-building analyst at… more

Rourke O'Brien | December 18, 2007