The junior senator from Illinois might take the country to a place it’s never been, past the baby boom, beyond race. To many Democrats, and even a lot of Republicans, the prospect is thrilling—but is it for real?

More and more psychologists and researchers believe they know what makes people happy. But the question is, does a New Yorker want to be happy?

The horror, claustrophobia, and everyday heroism of reporting on the Iraq war.

In his race for attorney general, Andrew Cuomo has as much to live down as he does to live up to.

The U.S. ambassador to the U.N. is using some very undiplomatic tactics to upset the institution’s delicate (do-nothing?) balance (gridlock?).Is John Bolton the living emblem of American arrogance or the man to save the U.N.? Or both?

123 reasons to love New York.

Did Jewish intelligence evolve in tandem with Jewish diseases as a result of discrimination in the ghettos of medieval Europe? That’s the premise of a controversial new study that has some preening and others plotzing. What genetic science can tell us—and what it can’t.

Clear your schedule for his third inauguration, here in New York in September.

People like Lisa Marie Sohr, who lose 100 pounds or more with stomach surgery, find that with their new bodies often come new friends, new spouses, new lives. But happiness is not a foregone conclusion.

It’s not as crazy as it seems.