Mitt Romney’s mendacious candidacy both epitomized and exploited his party’s estrangement from reality.
By Frank Rich
And one side won.
By Jonathan Chait
In love with America, terrified for its future, relegated to its past.
By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
Sandy poses complications for Michael Bloomberg’s legacy. Opportunities too.
By Chris Smith
Where the storm never ends, anarchy reigns, and people find their own ways to survive.
By Mark Jacobson
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, digital consultant Whitney Hess began collecting the names and stories of the storm’s casualties.
Newsroom wonders: Are we sure about this guy?
Net loss.
Our roundup of news from around the city.
#Feelings.
Election Night disco-napping with the Newark mayor and Twitter superhero.
Having planted his bourbon-and-barbecue flag in Cobble Hill, Char No. 4 ownerSean Josephs is expanding to Manhattan withMaysville.
Stolen Riches shoelaces, Claudia Pearson’s tea towels, and more new stuff in stores.
“This was the first time I was able to vote. It’s like I’m part of the change for once, and it’s very exciting.”
Hot chicken, cool honky-tonks, fierce roller derby.
The color of the season is a deep, red wine: somewhere between bordeaux and burgundy.
A panoply of gifts, endorsed by the editors of Vulture.com, for earbud-rocking, remote-dominating, minutiae-devouring entertainment obsessives.
Gaonnuri, in a 39th-floor aerie overlooking the Empire State Building, aims to raise the bar on your standard Koreatown joint.
Scent alone—sweet and floral and uncannily pervasive—is reasonenough to seek out the quince.
On the fourth Thursday of November, the turkey isn’t all that needs lubricating.
Readers sound off on Hurricane Sandy, and more.
Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.
Lincoln’s First Lady spent a decade getting into character.
How Jerry Saltz came to embrace Richard Artschwager’s weirdness.
Esa-Pekka Salonen makes old forms like concertos and symphonies sound fresh again.
Andrew Solomon on raisingkids—andconsciousness.
Keira Knightley and Joe Wright show their work in the overstylized Anna Karenina.
Following the inevitable let down of Election Night, we point our anticipation to the rest of this year’s expectation-encumbered entertainment.