The singer-songwriter and social activist best known as one-third of the folk-music group Peter, Paul and Mary, died Tuesday at age 86 at his home in New York. He had longtime family ties to Minnesota ...

American singer and songwriter Peter Yarrow, who found fame with the 1960s folk music trio Peter, Paul and Mary, died Tuesday at the age of 86, according to his publicist. Yarrow died in the morning ...

Yarrow wrote the music for the group’s best-known composition, “Puff, the Magic Dragon,” with lyrics by his Cornell classmate Leonard Lipton. The song became a standard both at summer camps and in ...

The worship of military technocrats underwrites American failures abroad. During his first term in office, Donald Trump ...

From their earliest albums, the trio sang out against war and injustice in songs like Seeger’s “If I Had a Hammer” and ... met the Minnesota senator’s niece, Mary Beth McCarthy, at ...