John Podhoretz
Now that Mayor Bloomberg has decided we, all 8 million of us New Yorkers, should all go through our...
Read OnWhat’s an internship worth? As much as it pays, apparently. Earlier this week, a federal judge...
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Michael Barone
Are Americans becoming more libertarian on cultural issues? I see evidence that they are, in poll...
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Michael Benjamin
None of the Democratic candidates for mayor has a plan for the city schools other than not being...
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Rich Lowry
Congress is boring. It can’t even make new false promises. On border security, it keeps making the...
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If Eric Holder is looking for a police force that could use a federal monitor, maybe he should look in his boss’s hometown.
One of the charms of watching a beauty pageant these days seems to be the inevitable YouTube moment when a contestant botches a question designed to show her bikini comes with a brain.
Gov. Cuomo has a curious way of letting New Yorkers decide an issue: If the voters disapprove an expansion of full-scale casino gambling at the polls this November, he’s going to expand it anyway.
Call him Gov. No-Can-Do. Instead of fixing a problem he admits is throttling the state’s economy — i.e., high taxes — Andrew Cuomo makes excuses.
They say the coverup is worse than the crime. Shelly Silver sure found that out. And now those who back him are finding that covering for the man who covered up may be worst of all.
Here in a city where politicians fight new businesses that want to come to town, it’s no secret that Walmart remains unwelcome. But the retail giant has just landed a friend in a high place: the White House.
The Issue: Whether President Obama’s decision to provide arms to Syrian rebels is in the nation’s interest.
Rich Calder’s piece about the rent paid for offices used by the Kings County District Attorney’s Office is highly misleading (“How $uite It Is for DA,” June 17).
The Issue: Allegations that inquiries into bad behavior by State Department officials were covered...
The Issue: Freelancers may soon be able to opt out of ObamaCare, but not all small businesses can. ...
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,...
The Skies Belong to Us Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking By Brendan I. Koerner...
Mo’ Meta Blues The World According to Questlove by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson and Ben Greenman...
The heat is on — not just in the streets, but at the Food Network, where season 9 of “Food Network...
Behind The Burly Q The Story of Burlesque in America by Leslie Zemeckis Skyhorse Publishing...
Sleepless in Hollywood Tales from the New Abnormal in the Movie Business by Lynda Obst Simon &...
The Astronaut Wives Club: A True Story by Lily Koppel Hachette Books The Space Race heroes had the...
The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls (Scribner) One-time New York Magazine staffer Walls wowed...
Straight Flush The True Story of Six College Friends Who Dealt Their Way to a Billion-Dollar...
Rodney Mason’s moment of truth, the event that forever changed and defined him, came on an October...
On “Girls,” he’s Ray, Shoshanna’s “loser” boyfriend, but off screen Alex Karpovsky is anything but....
Thieves of Book Row New York’s Most Notorious Rare Book Ring and the Man Who Stopped It by...
These days the corner of Spring and Greene streets overlooks a fashionable SoHo block of Chanel and...
Meg Wolitzer Author of “The Interestings: A Novel” “’The Other Typist’ by Suzanne Rindell is a...
TRUE STORIES The Skies Belong to Us Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking by Brendan...
Dr. Herbert I. London is a renaissance man — he’s run for mayor, governor and state comptroller;...
The Bling Ring: How a Gang of Fame-Obsessed Teens Ripped Off Hollywood and Shocked The World by...
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche (Knopf) After taking on her county’s brutal civil war in...
It’s been a very Richard Greenberg theater season. Not only is the playwright up for a Tony for his...
Meg Wolitzer isn’t just a novelist: She’s a second-generation one. She grew up on Long Island, the...
The Philadelphia Chromosome A Mutant Gene and the Quest to Cure Cancer at the Genetic Level by...
Tower of Basel The Shadowy History of the Secret Bank that Runs the World by Adam LeBor...
The DiMaggios Three Brothers, Their Passion for Baseball, Their Pursuit of the American Dream...
Uncommon Youth The Gilded Life and Tragic Times of J. Paul Getty III by Charles Fox St. Martin’s...
Decades before he played Robin Colcord on “Cheers” and Lord John Marbury on “The West Wing,” Roger...
Texas is easy to make fun of, and if it looks pretty strange to those of us on the coasts,...
The more you know about government finances, the harder it is to take the budget theater in...
Class A Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere by Lucas Mann (Pantheon) Yes, there are Friday...
Cilantro is the world’s most divisive (legal) herb. While some consider it a divine accent to...