"I don't know about you, but I spent  election night with my family," wrote Ben Brantley in The New York Times two days after Barack Obama was re-elected president.  "The Apples are not, for the record, my blood kin," he went on to clarify. "But after spending both Tuesday night and the 10th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks with them, I have come to feel as closely related to them as if we…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 01:28PM on November 2, 2016