Tax Fraud By The Numbers: The Trump Timeline
[Editor’s note: After our earlier post on the New York Times’s allegations of tax fraud on the part of Donald Trump and his family, accountant Ken Boyd asked us if we’d be …..
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Trump Family Tax Fraud: How Reporters Cracked the Story
Donald Trump has long claimed that he turned “a small loan of a million dollars” from his father into a billion-dollar fortune. Now a special investigation by The New York …..
Who Hated Jane Austen So Much?
Was it Rudyard Kipling? Or Mark Twain? Which popular author hated Jane Austen so much? Jane Austen’s 200th deathday is July 18th, and The New York Times is celebrating with a Jane Austen quiz. …..
Frank Sinatra ‘Gave Men License to Cry’
Frank Sinatra is 100 years old today, and Stephen Holden has a terrific notebook that captures so many truths about the man. Holden runs through a recap of all the …..
Ichiro Suzuki Carries His Baseball Bats in a Stradivarius Case
The Japanese baseball maestro has a custom-built bat case with a built-in dehumidifier.
How Alec Baldwin Picks Up Women
The magic words are, “I must know you.”
Modern Furniture is Screwing Up Years of Firefighting Theory
The FDNY is burning down 20 rowhouses in a massive test as it rethinks modern firefighting techniques.
The Teen Journalist Who Inspired an Olympic Swimmer… and Vice-Versa
A class writing project leads to a moment of truth for a 13-year-old girl and the Olympic hopeful she interviews.
NY Times Culture Critic Kicks the Snacks Out of NY Times Movie Critic
David Carr and A.O. Scott go at each other hammer, tongs and munchies.
Philip K. Dick: ‘Garage Philosopher’ or Madman?
Professor Simon Critchley thinks the sci-fi author was a self-taught genius.
E.L. Doctorow Tees Off
Celebrated author E.L. Doctorow offers a how-to guide to American “unexceptionalism.”
A.O. Scott Really Hates ‘American Beauty’
“Count yourself lucky” if you haven’t seen it, he says. And that’s just his latest smackdown.
Dan Clowes: ‘I’m Always Horrified By How Deeply Personal It Is’
Daniel Clowes talks to The Times about the inner worlds of the cartoonist.