And why do people say such loopy, ugly things about him? The enduring rot in American politics.

The trouble with sex and marriage.

Accused of paying underage girls for sex, superrich money manager Jeffrey Epstein is finding that living in a dream world is dangerous—even if you can pay for it.

He hides, but craves attention. He is prurient and prudish, powerful and paranoid, an icon of the right who seems obsessed with making Hillary Clinton our next president. And he has America caught in the grip of his contradictions.

Amid echoes of 1968, a new kind of radicalism struggles to be born.

Life lessons from the former Times editor, whose new memoir, The One That Got Away, shows him living by the same manly code, whether in the midst of a great journalism scandal or on a trout stream.

How a schlumpy IBM refugee found you your apartment, your boyfriend, your new couch, your afternoon sex partner—and now finds himself killing your newspaper.

The ghosts of Vietnam haunting the Iraq war are also lurking over the movement against it.

Multibillionaire commodities king Bruce Kovner is the patron saint of the neoconservatives, the new Lincoln Center’s crucial Medici, owner of a vast Fifth Avenue mansion—and the most powerful New Yorker you’ve never heard of.

With his A-list of artist and writer friends, novelist Frederic Tuten has always had an audience of connoisseurs. But his new art-world love story, The Green Hour, may engage wider passions.