Editor’s Pick
Was Madoff ‘Victim’ and Best Friend an Accomplice?
New evidence suggests Bernie had powerful accomplices in his scheme—philanthropist Norman Levy and a second accountant. Lucinda Franks reports on the international investigation.
Inside the NFL Draft with an Agent Not Named Jerry Maguire
Football dealmaker David Canter on what he knows before the mock drafts, how he pits teams against each other, and what kind of a stomach you need to make it in the sports-agent game
Growing Up Buckley
The nurse buzzed me into the Critical Care Unit. The chic and stunning Mrs. William F. Buckley — the society columnists used to call her that — lay on her bed, shrunken, open-eyed, unseeing, a thick plastic respirator tube protruding from her mouth, making a loud, rhythmic bellows noise as it pumped and withdrew air […]
Joe Biden’s Problem with Music
A different perspective on the RIAA’s takeover of the Department of Justice
J.J. Abrams on the Magic of Mystery
This essay ends with cheating. Specifically, my friend Greg and I, after playing a particular videogame for 11 hours straight, are stuck. We call a fellow gamer to learn what moves we need to make to get to the next level. With the new information in hand, we finally complete the game.
Helen Gurley Brown: The Original Carrie Bradshaw
Helen Gurley Brown, the author of “Sex and the Single Girl” (1962) and for three decades the editor of Cosmopolitan, was born in Green Forest, Ark., a tiny town in the Ozark Mountains. Her father died when she was 10; her sister had polio; her family was “hillbilly,” she wrote, and poor. Once she got […]
