Photo-Illustration: by Stevie Remsberg When I walk into Claire Saffitz’s Upper West Side apartment on a rainy Wednesday morning, there are two restaurant-level dishes sitting on her counter: a concord grape and apple pie with…

Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images One of the many problems at WeWork is that it doesn’t really own much of value. It’s a real-estate company with no real estate. The company has extensive lease obligations to…

Bel weather? Photo: Matthew Hinton/AP/Shutterstock The American people like new social programs as a general concept. Ask voters whether they would like to see Uncle Sam provide universal health care, or child-care subsidies, or paid…

Photo: Steve Liss/The LIFE Images Collection via G Black Friday falls late in the month — November 29, officially — so lots of retailers are getting a head start on their holiday sales, including Walmart. And even…

Jose Altuve, #27 of the Houston Astros hits a home run, his third of the game, against the Boston Red Sox in the seventh inning of game one of the American League Division Series at…

He’s like a kid out there. Photo: Scott Heins/Getty Images Joe Biden leads most polls; Elizabeth Warren has sometimes been considered the real frontrunner; Pete Buttigieg is surging in Iowa. Where does that leave Bernie…

Her candidacy was born in California. Will it be buried there? Photo: David Becker/Getty Images In the original strategic vision of Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign, her home state of California was supposed to be the…

On October 10, federal agents arrested Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman at the airport, where they had one-way tickets to Vienna. President Trump feigned disinterest. “I don’t know those gentlemen,” he told reporters. “Maybe they…