“Who do I call?” Mr. Choffel asked. “Everyone has kids. I know everybody’s in bed, so who do you call?”
Did John Boehner Just Pull Off A Brilliant Hustle?
READING LESSONS: Richard Ford’s The Sportswriter
Gay Talese on Alabama Football and Lost Love
“The first time I saw Joe Namath was after a waitress in this dining room of this Tuscaloosa hotel, a red haired waitress who was young in a tight blue uniform and left nothing to the imagination, to my imagination or hers,” the 83-year-old Talese recited, "this waitress who spotted him coming in the door and she said to another, ‘Psst, here he comes.’”
World’s Finest
Hello to All That
Roger Stone Rides Donald Trump’s Well-Tailored Coattails
My Mother's Many Lives
Editor in Charge — Dean Baquet Takes Charge of The New York Times Newsroom
Quarterback for a Team of 1,900
What's Next for Mike Bloomberg?
A-Rod: The Man Who Would Be King
M: Roger Angell, A Hall-of-Famer at 93
Being Geraldo
Washington's New Brat Masters Media
One winter evening, Brian Beutler, 28, a reporter for the online publication Talking Points Memo, sat with his friend and roommate Dave Weigel, 29, a political reporter for Slate and a contributor to MSNBC, at a coffee shop on U Street. Recovering from a cold as snow fell outside, Mr. Beutler spoke about his younger — well, relatively younger — days in the city.
An Assassin's Tale
The Holy Cow! Candidate
Mitt Romney, the governor of Massachusetts, loves data, hates waste, and reveres Dwight Eisenhower. He's also the Next Big Thing in the Republican Party. But can anyone so clean-cut, so pure of character, and (by gosh!) so square overcome the "two Ms"—Mormonism and Massachusetts—to be our next president?
‘A very different nation’: The Romneys on life with George and the lesson of his derailed presidential bid
All Revved Up Over Michigan's Place in Politics
DETROIT -- On a steely cold Saturday morning, Debbie Dingell walks into a local UAW hall choked with people looking for answers. Tuesday's Michigan presidential primary -- one not recognized by the Democratic National Committee -- is only days away, and Democrats from the 13th Congressional District have assembled to ask what will happen when they walk into a polling booth where neither Barack Obama nor John Edwards is on the ballot.
The Fall of Austin Kearns and Adam Dunn
They had to fall like this — each in his own way, but still very much together. One has done so in almost inexplicable fashion, with his inability to put a ball in play reaching astonishing (and nearly humorous) levels. The other has tumbled more traditionally, through a series of injuries and stunted seasons and diminished production.