Editor’s Pick

But the buzzy Boston author’s lusty take plays loose with the facts while missing the real story.

U.S. horses are meeting gruesome ends abroad, while the debate rages on: Are horses 1,500 pounds of food or friend?

A chaplain from Walter Reed. A doctor from Walter Reed. The owner of a new hair salon. An architect. On a Metro train, in one terrifying instant and its aftermath, their lives became forever intertwined. This is their story.

Despite her disastrous performance in the 2008 election, Sarah Palin is still the sexiest brand in Republican politics. John McCain’s top campaign officials talk more candidly than ever before about the meltdown of his vice-presidential pick.

Iran: What our spies don’t know

Stuart Murdoch recruited the other six members of Belle and Sebastian for their shared sensibility rather than their musical chops. The band provided the perfect accompaniment to Murdoch’s wistful, sometimes lisping voice. Swirling guitars and jaunty piano and horns sometimes created a deceptively upbeat counterpoint to his wry yet bleak wordplay but could also combine […]

Holden Caulfield had it right. The test of a great book, he said in “The Catcher in the Rye,” was whether, once you finished it, you wished the author were a great friend you could call up at home. I remembered Caulfield’s insight when we convened a roundtable of writers to come to Newsweek. The […]

“When the editors at Wired.co.uk commissioned this article, we all knew there was a chance I wouldn’t live to see it published. I was diagnosed last September with a disease that was chomping through my body with the impunity of a pepped-up Pacman in a ghost-free maze. I would be writing about my experiences of […]

Sheila Bair and the White House financial debate.

Right now, there are no rules to keep you from owning a bitchin’ corporate name as your own Internet address.