Chuck Schumer took to the airwaves over the weekend to warn about a coming government shutdown, an event whose blame he laid firmly at the feet of Republicans in Congress.

“I hope we can negotiate somewhere in the middle. That’s what should be done,” he told CNN’s Candy Crowley. “But unfortunately Speaker Boehner is on Read More

Google traded the standard keyboard’s Caps Lock key for a Search key on the new CR-8 notebook released last week. If you ask us, it’s hard to say if this is a good move or not. Pressing the Search key opens a web search in a new tab, but pressing the Caps Lock key helps Read More

There won’t be a re-match of the fight that divided the Upper East Side.

At a party to Read More

Condé Nast has been investigating how readers are taking to the iPad and, if nothing else, the iPad seems a little less mysterious now. Normal people are reading Condé Nast titles on the device — not just (what The New Yorker’s Ben McGrath might call) gadget fetishists or Apple fanatics. The most exciting nugget Read More

New York Times White House correspondent Peter Baker spent some time with President Obama in September for a story in the Times Magazine this weekend.

President Obama showed Mr. Baker around the redesigned Oval Office. He tossed out President Bush’s yellow carpet and brought in some earth tones and fresh fruit. “I know Arianna Read More