Reichl, at Atla in New York City. Photo: Scott Heins When Gourmet magazine ceased publication in 2009, the New York Times reported that “after a short rest,” the magazine’s editor-in-chief, Ruth Reichl, “plans to write…

Spinning. Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images Last Sunday, minutes before the rest of America found out about Attorney General William Barr’s summary of the Mueller report, Donald Trump received a briefing in his private residence at…

Can you predict the future by looking at the past? In the yearbooks of some declared and likely major-party presidential candidates, we found a debate champion, varsity athletes, student-government leaders, and a few very enthusiastic…

Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images Robert Mueller’s failure to establish a criminal conspiracy between Donald Trump and the Russian government has set off a wave of revisionist attacks from both…

Even if there’s no “crisis” at the U.S.-Mexico border, there’s definitely a serious problem with migrants. Photo: Paul Ratje/AFP/Getty Images Overall, Democrats have reason to consider themselves well-positioned on most aspects of Donald Trump’s signature…

Essex Crossing, seen from above. Photo: Moso Studio Arguments over gentrification are almost always starker than the thing itself. That new coffee place on the corner? It’s a state-sponsored hate crime, wiping out history and…

Photo: Courtesy of Pete Buttigieg If you’re like us, you’ve probably wondered what famous people add to their carts. Not the JAR brooch and Louis XV chair, but the hand sanitizer and the electric toothbrush. We asked Mayor…

Biff Tannen in “Back to the Future II” from 1989. The character was based in part on Donald Trump. Photo: Universal Pictures At his rally Thursday night in Grand Rapids, President Trump delighted supporters by…