Eliot Spitzer was offended. Scott Stringer, his rival for the Democratic nomination for the job of...
Read OnPresident Obama’s decision to cancel his planned trip to Moscow to meet with Russian President...
Read OnDetroit This city is the broken tooth in Michigan’s smile. Nevertheless, the preternaturally...
Read OnThe Washington Post is a legend in the minds of the Washington elite, so its financial decline has...
Read OnThe two Democratic candidates for city comptroller squared off yesterday in one of the wildest political debates this town has seen in some time. Amid the exchange of insults, one thing became clear: Eliot Spitzer has no comprehension of what a comptroller actually does.
In the aftermath of test scores that show the majority of city school children are not performing up to standard, everyone’s a critic. But not everyone’s earned the right to be.
It’s often said, with good reason, that a prosecutor could indict a ham sandwich, given the generally one-sided nature of the grand-jury system.
We don’t normally find ourselves in the position of defending the Obama administration, especially when it comes to dealing with the terrorists who want to attack our country and harm our people. But we have no choice as we read the half-baked criticisms of the president for his decision to shut down 19 US embassies in the Middle East and North Africa after credible intelligence about a planned terror attack.
City Hall probably had little choice but to scuttle its stop-and-frisk database as part of a legal settlement, despite its effectiveness as a crime-fighting tool.
When the going gets tough, the politically connected get a waiver.
The Issue: Mayor Bloomberg’s warning that New York faces similar financial problems as Detroit.
The Issue: The wisdom of fracking in New York and opposition to it by celebrities like Yoko Ono.
The Issue: The wisdom of fracking in New York and opposition to it by celebrities like Yoko Ono. **...
The Issue: A video of the Philadelphia Eagles’ Riley Cooper using the n-word, which has sparked...
The Secret World of Sleep The Surprising Science of the Mind at Rest by Penelope A. Lewis...
The Bee Gees: The Biography by David N. Meyer Da Capo Press Barry Gibb, he of multiple No. 1...
Turn Around Bright Eyes The Rituals of Love and Karaoke by Rob Sheffield (It Books) Rolling...
Most readers know her as the author of “The Princess Diaries” series, the movies of which launched...
Breakfast: A History by Heather Arndt Anderson AltaMira Press Our “most important meal of the...
The Butler: A Witness to History by Wil Haygood 37 Ink/Atria In The days immediately...
“I love books that make me cry,” says actor David Morse. “Not cheap tears, though I shed plenty of...
Shep’s Army Bummers, Blisters & Boondoggles by Jean Shepherd (Opus) The late raconteur Jean...
My Lunches With Orson Conversations Between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles Edited by Peter Biskind...
Stephen Schwartz, the composer of “Wicked” and much more, has never been shy about discussing his...
Shot All to Hell Jesse James, The Northfield Raid, and the Wild West’s Greatest Escape by Mark...
The White Princess by Philippa Gregory (Touchstone) Henry VIII may have had six wives, but he...
Zealot The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan Random House In about year 93 of...
It could mean “hilly island.” Or “the place where timber is procured for bows and arrows.” Or,...
Who hasn’t, at some point, had a crush on a teacher? In Susan Choi’s new novel, “My Education,”...
Mystery Girl by David Gordon (New Harvest) Some things are inexplicable. The human heart is one...
At Gettysburg, great deeds were followed by great words. The battle won the war — it was the...
People often ask Curtis Sittenfeld if she’s ever heard from Laura Bush. After all, the heroine of...
On Feb. 24, 2010, a call came in to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office in Florida from SeaWorld. ...
Visitation Street by Ivy Pochoda (Ecco/Dennis Lehane) Val and June are BFFs sitting, at 15, on...
This Ain’t No Holiday Inn Down and Out at the Chelsea Hotel 1980-1995 An Oral History by James...
Red Summer The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America by Cameron McWhirter (Henry...
Men on Strike Why Men Are Boycotting Marriage, Fatherhood and the American Dream — and Why It...
It can’t have been easy succeeding the mellifluous Metropolitan Museum of Art director Philippe de...
Against Their Will The Secret History of Medical Experimentation on Children in Cold War America...
Run, Brother, Run A Memoir of a Murder in My Family by David Berg Scribner It wasn’t an act —...
Sisterland by Curtis Sittenfeld (Random House) In her the latest novel, Sittenfeld (“Prep,”...
In Jami Attenberg’s affecting novel “The Middlesteins,” a bright, dark-eyed wife and mother slowly...
As I sat in the tiny room of a local archive in Le Havre, I couldn’t believe what I was reading....
He’s the poet laureate of frat boys, the founder of a new genre dubbed “Fratire.” Meet Tucker Max,...