INTELLIGENCER
Melania Trump Won’t Be Frock-Blocked
The art of the deal: buying dress off shopper’s back.
Wilbur Ross's Distress
The Sago mine tragedy illustrates the potential human cost of Ross's distressed-asset investment strategy.

Will Hoax Save So-So JT LeRoy Film?
Digital Animal: Lou Reed Takes Up Photography
A Real Head-Scratcher: Why So Many Lice This Year?
Ian Schrager's Deal With Morgans Hotel Group Co.
007 Daniel Craig Seeking New Bond Girl

Condé Nastiness Fails to Bring Down McCarthy Era

The Public Theater Turns 50
THE IMPERIAL CITY

The Good Old Boy of Time Inc.
By Kurt Andersen
John Huey sits atop Time and Fortune and 149 other magazines, ready to have some fun. Only now the good old days of big media are history.

THE POWER GRID

Chuck’s Chance
By John Heilemann
Whatever happens with Judge Alito, Schumer is likely the Democratic winner. It’s all part of his secret plan for senatorial domination.

 

  
FEATURES

Running Weld
By Stephen Rodrick
The quixotic candidacy of the partying patrician who wants to be governor, again.

Vera Wang’s Second Honeymoon
By Amy Larocca
Brides love Vera Wang. But does she love them? (Not so much.) What this former Vogue editor and self-described fashion nun really has a passion for is clothes. But let her tell you about it.

PREVIOUSLY

Is This Finally It for the Strokes?
By Jay McInerney
The New Yorkiest band try to survive their best record yet.

Dinosaur On Ice
By Keith Gessen
The NHL has mandated a cleaner, more elegant game, but Darius Kasparaitis, the Rangers’ superthug, refuses to let extinction keep him down.

A Guy Named Craig
By Philip Weiss
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.
 
 
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COLUMNISTS
  James J. Cramer
The Bottom Line		  
Kurt Andersen
The Imperial City
  
 

Chris Smith
City Politic

  
Jim Holt
It Happened Last Week
  
 
IT HAPPENED LAST WEEK
  This week, it seemed like the rest of the world just couldn’t be roused. Faced with a foam-mouthed pack of barking Democratic senators, Samuel Alito somnolently aced his way through confirmation hearings.  
   
 
IT HAPPENS THIS WEEK
 

Restaurant Week commences. Corzine sworn in as New Jersey gov. New York International Motorcycle Show at Javits. Beastie Boys doc rocks Sundance. Middle schoolers take standardized state English tests.