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 February 05, 2012THE EMASCULATION OF WALL STREET After surprisingly successful financial reform, public vilification, and politics that have turned against them, the Masters of the Universe are masters no longer.  November 04, 2011ELISABETH OF THE MURDOCHS With her husband and privy counselor, Matthew Freud, the Murdochs' prodigal daughter is trying to finally get her due.  September 18, 2011SHRUNKEN HEADS The niche future of the TV mega-personality.  May 22, 2011THE ELEPHANT IN THE GREEN ROOM The circus Roger Ailes created at Fox News made his network $900 million last year. But it may have lost him something more important: the next election. [ PDF ]  April 10, 2011REVOLVER Why do some of the most capable public servants in America, people like economist Peter Orszag, keep circling back from Washington to Wall Street? One guess. [ PDF ]  January 24, 2011HARPER'S UNION SPAT INTENSIFIES AS BIG-NAME AUTHORS WEIGH IN Daily Intel January 18, 2011VENERABLE LEFTIES AT HARPER'S DIVIDED BY UNION Daily Intel  November 15, 2010
THE SCHOOL THAT ATE NEW YORK By charm and brute force, NYU is planning to add 6 million square feet to its campus across the city. Is John Sexton the new Robert Moses? [ PDF ]  October 3, 2010
CHASING FOX The loud, cartoonish blood sport that's engorged MSNBC, exhausted CNN -- and is making our body politic delirious. [ PDF ]  September 26, 2010
TIMES TWO Jill Abramson, the Times' first heiress apparent.  September 26, 2010
THE ANTI-TRUMP Gary Barnett, the builder of this era's glitziest buildings, does not have cotton-candy hair or a big mouth -- but what he does have is hubris.  September 1, 2010
THE CASE FOR WHY SARAH PALIN WON'T RUN FOR PRESIDENT Daily Intel  July 21, 2010
COURIC'S FUTURE QUESTIONED AT CBS Daily Intel  June 13, 2010ELIOT SPITZER MIGHT NOT BE A MEDIA STEAMROLLER Daily Intel  May 04, 2010CBS NEWS AND CNN ARE BACK IN PARTNERSHIP NEGOTIATIONS Daily Intel  May 03, 2010RATTLED JOURNAL STAFF RENEW PURSUIT OF PULITZERS Daily Intel  May 03, 2010THE REVOLUTION WILL BE COMMERCIALIZED Sarah Palin is already president of right-wing America -- and it's a position with a very big salary. [ PDF ]  April 28, 2010WHY PALIN'S BIGGEST PRESIDENTIAL HURDLE MAY BE HER STAFF ISSUES Daily Intel  March 01, 2010THE RAGING SEPTUAGENARIAN Taking on the Times, Google, and, in a sense, his own children, Rupert Murdoch is not going gently into the night. [ PDF ]  December 18, 2009THE BIGGEST, BADDEST, REAL-ESTATE LOAN Tishman Speyer's $3.4 billion Stuyvesant Town mistake. [ PDF ]  November 22, 2009SHOW ME THE MONEY Who decides what a trader is worth: His bosses? The government? The public? Inside the tug-of-war over pay at AIG, where compensation has become a proxy for a whole lot more. [ PDF ]  November 8, 2009THE INFORMATION BROKER At the intersection of high finance and news, the New York Times' past and its future, and with a new best-selling book about the Wall Street crisis, 32-year-old Andrew Ross Sorkin has thrived by understanding the psyches of big players under attack. Which is a talent that has suddenly come in very handy. [ PDF ]  October 11, 2009NEW JERSEY NASTY Oversize, overdriven U.S. Attorney Chris Christie is throwing everything to try to topple Governor Jon Corzine.The ex-Goldman Sachs head has plenty to throw back. [ PDF ]  July 12, 2009THE LEGACY Guilty of a shocking crime against his own brother-in-law, real-estate mogul Charles Kushner has been cast out of power. So his son Jared, the 28-year-old Observer owner, has to carry the ambition for the both of them. [ PDF ]  April 19, 2009THE WAIL OF THE 1% As the privileged class loses its privileges, a collective moan rises from the canyons of Wall Street. [ PDF ]  February 1, 2009CLASH OF THE UTOPIAS When the Speyers bought Stuyvesant Town for over $5 billion, they were buying one of the last refuges of the Manhattan middle class. And remaking it was harder than it looked. [ PDF ]  December 7, 2008THE CATASTROPHE CAPITALIST In the bleakest stock market of the past 70 years, when hedge funds and 401(k)s alike have cratered, few people are smiling. But short-seller Jim Chanos, whose fund is up 50 percent, is having the time of his life. [ PDF ]  September 21, 2008THE RAGE OF THE PREVIOUSLY RICH A Lehman trader copes with the sudden onset of income shrinkage. [ PDF ]  June 22, 2008WHO OWNS CENTRAL PARK? How Frederick Law Olmsted's 843 acres of civilizing wilderness became a type-A battleground. [ PDF ]  March 30, 2008TESTING HORACE MANN When students created Facebook pages that viciously attacked a teacher, and when their wealthy parents on the school's board defended them, Horace Mann was forced to confront a series of questions: Is a Facebook page private? Is big money distorting private-school education? And what values is a school supposed to teach? [ PDF ]  March 24, 2008ANGRY BEAR They'd seen hard times, and knew more were coming. But no one at Bear Stearns expected to become Jamie Dimon's trophy. [ PDF ] | |