One of Wall Street’s most powerful activist investors is challenging AT&T Inc. ’s ambition to build a media conglomerate and is pushing the company to refocus on its telecommunications roots. Hedge fund Elliott Management Corp.…
Surging in Polls, Elizabeth Warren Now Has a…
Elizabeth Warren, looking more and more viable. Photo: Scott W. Grau/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images In this phase of the 2020 Democratic presidential contest, there are a number of interesting story lines for political observers:…
32 Things on Sale You’ll Actually Want to…
29 items in this article 29 items on sale! Photo: courtesy of the retailers So perhaps we’re a little bit excited for fall? Lots of autumnal shades in this week’s Friday roundup, including some baby…
Biden Knows How to Make the Moral Case…
Biden in Iowa. Photo: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images A really unexpected thing happened to me this week. I felt a slight but measurable twinge of hope. For the first time, I heard a speech…
TikTok Has Turned the School Bathroom Into a…
Photo: Screenshots via Tik Tok The rise of short-form video apps — like Vine, or Snapchat, or most recently, TikTok — help us travel instantly. Because it takes little effort to post these clips or…
The Sleight of Hand at the Heart of…
Stephen Ross, chairman and majority owner of the Related Companies, at the grand opening of the Hudson Yards development in Manhattan. Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images In February, this magazine described Stephen Ross as “what [Donald]…
The Trump Boycotts Pose a Grave Danger to…
An upscale Equinox gym in downtown Berkeley, California. Photo: Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images The Associated Press ran a story yesterday about outrage and boycott threats over a high-dollar fundraiser for Donald Trump hosted by Stephen Ross,…
The Black Art of Escape
Photo: Bruce Gilden/Magnum Photos There is a moment in Alvin Ailey’s dance masterpiece, Revelations — “Sinner Man” is the song — when, suddenly, from the far-right wing, a boy comes running. You run to the…
The 5 (Not Totally Hideous) Sunglasses I Wear…
5 items in this article 1 item on sale! Photo: Julbo The world of sunglasses is almost as diverse as the people who wear them. Sunny summertime is probably the season you most frequently reach…