How the NYPD’s elite Cold Case Squad, which investigates long-unsolved crimes, is falling victim to a slow bureaucratic death.

A choose-your-own-adventure cost-of-living calculator*

As Democrats salivate over their chances, Republicans are spitting back.

Spying on the babysitter has never been easier.

Greenmarketeers’ fears.

The new contraband in the war on terror.

The connection between sweltering heat and 300-pound cast-iron discs hurtling through the summer air.

Serve cotton candy at a BBQ, go to a skate park, and ride the newest roller coaster.

Suit seeks to end the early-morning leashless lives of city dogs.

Advance praise finds its way to book jackets in many ways—some meticulously planned, some random—but mostly, as an executive at HarperCollins admits, “it’s logrolling, pure and simple.”