Arthur Herman
Some say Edward Snowden is a hero and a patriot. Others say he’s a fool and a traitor. The...
Read OnIt’s going to be quite something to see what the taxpayers of New York are going to make of the...
Read OnEditor’s note: The novelist Alice Walker recently wrote a public letter asking singer Alicia Keys...
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Thomas Sowell
Amid all the heated cross-currents of debate about the National Security Agency’s massive...
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No one knows better than Ray Kelly what it’s like to be on the receiving end of ill-founded criticism. So we were all the more disappointed to see the police commissioner piling on the NSA.
If Anthony Weiner hadn’t decided to run for mayor, we might never have learned about the cushy deal Hillary Clinton’s State Department arranged for his wife.
If New Yorkers have learned one thing about Mike Bloomberg these past few years, it’s that “voluntary” hasn’t been a key feature of his signature initiatives.
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.
The Issue: The numerous scandals that have emerged recently involving the Obama administration.
The Issue: Joe Lhota’s call to end discretionary funds for city councilmembers or to offset them with cuts.
The Issue: Whether President Obama’s decision to provide arms to Syrian rebels is in the nation’s...
Rich Calder’s piece about the rent paid for offices used by the Kings County District Attorney’s...
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...