Humanity First

As I listened to Donald J. Trump’s “America First” inaugural speech on NPR, I was struck by a conversation I had had with my Afghan daughter before she departed for a semester in Rome the day before the inauguration.

Our Little Racket

In the waning light of the predinner hour, Mina Dawes sat across the table from Isabel, desperate to keep their conversation aloft. During the silences her gaze wandered out over Isabel’s pool, its surface entirely untroubled beneath the late-afternoon sun.

The Palm Beaches

IT WAS WINTER 2011; I was sitting alone in my home in Connecticut.

The Einstein Legacy Project

ALBERT Einstein was a true genius.

Statue Of Limitations

You can go in now, miss,” the receptionist directed.Emma crossed the waiting room and entered the office. The Chairman of the American Committee motioned Emma to a chair across the desk from him.

Hamptons International Film Festival's Silver Anniversary

LIGHTS! Camera! Action! It’s hard to believe the Hamptons International Film Festival (HIFF) is celebrating a quarter century of showcasing great works in film.

Megyn Kelly Settle for More

Rye’s Megyn Kelly, in the Spotlight.

Women Create Their Own Opportunities in New York's Growing Weed Industry

On a recent Thursday evening in downtown Manhattan, nearly 50 women and a few men, ranging from millennials to baby boomers, gathered in a sleek co-working space to talk about weed.

Mah Jong Memory

I remember mah jong through a haze of memory and my mother’s Benson & Hedges cigarette smoke.

The Heirs

Eleanor belonged to that class of New Yorker whose bloodlines were traced in the manner of racehorses: she was Phipps (sire) out of Deering (dam), by Livingston (sire’s dam) and Porter (dam’s dam).

We Can End America's Addiction Crisis... But Only Together

I had a horrible feeling that late October Friday in 2012.

Colonial Day Along The Gold Coast

Do you know about colonial day?

One Atlantic Events

Over the ocean, your perfect special event ve

Scott Swimming Pools

Scott Swimming Pools, Inc. is a luxury design-build swimming pool company celebrating its 80th year in business this year.

Brain Fitness It's All In Your Mind

Frozen in Mid-sentence, You Forget a Name. With Your Pen Poised Over a Check, You Cannot Recall the Date. You’ve Gone Into the Kitchen, but You Can No Longer Remember What for. And Where Is That Damned Cell Phone?Are You One of the Worried Well?Many of Us Are Anxious to Live a Long Life, but Fearful of Our Potential for the Humiliation and Debilitation of Dementia.What to Do? Should You Try a Computer Game? Magnesium Tablets? A Week at an Expensive Brain Training Center? Brain Fitness Is the New Buzzword and Wealthy Aging Baby Boomers Are Eager to Buy a Healthier Brain. 

Test Of The Champion: The Story Of The Belmont Dynasty

The grand old names of American Thoroughbred horse racing—Whitney, Phipps, DuPont, Mellon, and Widener—exude images of industry tycoons and lineages traceable to the Mayflower.

The Perelman Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center

IN the 1950s and ‘60s, when Lincoln Center was being built and Carnegie Hall was scheduled for demolition, few believed New York City could handle more than one performance space each for concerts, ballet or opera.

Saint In The City

Seeking the star man on the streets of soho.

Vice President Joe Biden Redraws The Battle Lines In America's Longest War

I know of no cadre of people in the world more desperately in need of hope than the sixteen million people with cancer,” Vice President Joe Biden told the nation’s leading cancer researchers and clinicians at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Chicago on June 6, 2016.