This is a nation that loathes government and always has.
By Frank Rich
If Obama wins, it may be because the former president saved his presidency—but what exactly do the Clintons get in return?
By John Heilemann
Though their agendas are hidden, both Romney and Obama have plans to dramatically remake the size and character of American government.
By Jonathan Chait
W.’s little brother wrestles with a complicated legacy—and positions himself for the next chance.
By Joe Hagan
To succeed, an Affleck project must be accompanied or preceded by Affleck facial hair.
How Bud Selig has kept his league out of the great sports labor wars.
Taste the ubiquity!
Our roundup of news from around the city.
Snapchat sweeps campus.
Barroom pool, Mexican beer, and Taylor Swifttalk with the Kennedy-family scion turned self-styled Lower East Side ingénue.
Tooker Alley brings a historical martini menu to Prospect Heights.
A standing knife, Halloween lollipops, and more new stuff in stores.
“I did a three-month meditation course in India, and in the next room were John Lennon and George Harrison.”
Ootoya offers a down-to-earthalternative to expensive sushi and elaborate omakase feasts.
Rainbow Chard can be used to great effect in rich gratins, as co-chefs Ginevra Iverson and Eric Korsh do in dueling sides at Calliope.
Urban mushroom hunters hit pay dirt at South Street Seaport.
The preferred heel height of grannies and practical people is suddenly, incredibly, chic.
Why more and more city parents are teaching their kids themselves.
Readers sound off on Marissa Mayer, Hudson Yards, and more.
Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.
Time traveling on Broadway for The Heiress.
The Sessions avoids all the usual sex-comedy-with-polio clichés.
Lena Dunham’s funny self-help manual just sold last week to Random House and probably won’t hit stores for at least a year.
Cornell’s new East River campus aims to foster human creativity. But it looks a little robotic.
Darren Aronofsky builds Noah’s Ark on Long Island.
