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.

His English may be slightly fuzzy, but Christoph Thun-Hohenstein's mission is crystal clear: to make the Austrian Cultural Forum as provocative on the inside as its startling new East 52nd Street home is from the outside.

On January 20, Bill Clinton will do something he's wanted to do all his life. He'll become a New Yorker. Who says there are no second acts in America?

Living quietly among us in Westchester, the Swedish director Lasse Hallström has made peace with what Ingmar Bergman once called "the meat grinder" of Hollywood. After two straight years of Oscar nominations and with similar hopes for his new film, The Shipping News, Hallström is finally where he wants to be.