Occupy Wall Street gave us the 99 percent, but the Republican Party has a populist movement that’s even more enraged. Call them the 75 percent.
By Frank Rich
Somehow, earlier this year, a philosopher managed to goad the world into vanquishing an evil villain.
By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
The TV show about the making of a Broadway musical that could actually become a Broadway musical.
By Jesse Green
Some of the hard data that has emerged from eight months of rhetorical jousting at the GOP debates.
Plumbing the nuptial class gap with a Nobel-winning economist and his fellow academic wife.
What Kim Jong-il has to do with Tina Fey.
Our roundup of news from around the city.
Mayoral wisdom for $1.95.
Unwinding after practice with the Knicks’ new hipster center and resident photography enthusiast.
A critic decides to find out—by stepping up to the podium himself.
Year-end films have it all: solemnity (War Horse), enchantment (We Bought a Zoo), and nervy tearjerking (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close).
Jared Leto quit acting to be a self-help rock messiah.
Producer Gavin Polone on how to fix the movie biz, one grounded private jet at a time.
On House of Lies, Don Cheadle plays a business consultant who’s no Mitt Romney.
The sweetie-darlings are back, Champagne flutes and ciggies at the ready, with a three-episode twentieth-anniversary special.
A month ago, his candidacy was rusting. Now he’s on the road.
Sara Jenkins’s New Year’s brunch at Porsena.
Decorative paper flowers, Stella McCartney relocates to Soho, and more.
“People love to say I should call Zach Galifianakis and be his stunt double.”
A bar-and-restaurant-owning brother and sister share a taste for esoteric spirits.
The author test-drives new pay-per-chore site TaskRabbit.
Readers sound off on the Reasons to Love New York, Nicolas Berggruen, and more.
Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.