OPINION

A conversation with Rick Bell, executive director of the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.

The Playboy cover featuring Lohan, who starred at the age of 11 in Disney's remake of The Parent Trap, was apparently leaked days ago. But now the entire spread has been leaked, according to TMZ and people can see it online. Playboy, of course, has a major vested interest since it reportedly paid Lohan $1 million for the shoot and right to publish.

Donald Trump may have to cancel his much-maligned GOP debate now that Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum are the only ones attending -- but he wants you to know it's not his fault.

Whenever economists discuss the “big picture”— where we’ve come from, where we’re going— someone is bound to bring up Joseph Schumpeter. Schumpeter (1883-1950) was, in fact, a master of thinking about the “big picture,” most famously in his writings on economic development, entrepreneurship, and the past and future of capitalist societies.

The only rule at Loosecubes' office in DUMBO is you have to play nice with others. Words to that effect have been etched in Old English on a wooden placard that hangs near the doorway. Pass that lone condition and you're free to use the company's massive studio, a cavernous room with a makeshift meeting area made from a large canvas tent standing on artificial turf, pinned smack dab in the middle of all the desks.

The details of the killing on Dec. 8, 1980 are sadly familiar to almost everyone who remembers that awful event.

Analysis of the Cheshire Home Invasion

Strawberry Fields Forever: John Lennon was shot and killed 31 years ago, today, outside the Dakota home he shared with Yoko Ono.

President Barack Obama needs several factors to break his way to improve his chance for re-election in 2012 -- the most important of which is U.S. job growth.

While commuters queue at their local Starbucks for their first cardboard growler of coffee, addicts often don't have to leave the city's choicest neighborhoods to get their daily paper mouthwash cup of hot-pink methadone.

After the death of a female high-school basketball star, it appears that there is an upward trend for women to join street gangs in the city.

With Mitt Romney's announcement on Tuesday that he will not attend a debate moderated by Donald Trump, the endeavor seems to be collapsing before it has begun -- and rightly so.

Forgotten in all the fuss about the alleged nude photographs of Pakistani actress and model, Veena Malik, on the cover of FHM India’s December issue, is one rather important mark - the tattoo on her body - the one that reads ISI; ISI is the acronym for Inter-Services Intelligence, Pakistan's intelligence agency.

The 70th Anniversary of the December 7th attack on Pearl Harbor calls for reflection on the significance of the Pearl Harbor memorials.

The long shadow of Occupy Wall Street fell across the New York Legislature Tuesday, when its leaders and Gov. Andrew Cuomo agreed to changes to New York State's income tax, which will cut rates for many in the middle class, while adding a new bracket for those making over $2 million a year. And we, the middle class, owe that rag-tag group of small-d democrats our gratitude.

Every New Yorker trapped in a tiny, cramped apartment--since Mr. Blandings--has dreamed of a new world...a new life--and driven by enough extreme urban chaos--even a new planet. Now NASA has found one.

At both the individual and collective level, Americans have created and embraced a culture of debt. Spurred by our gluttony, we have developed an untenable habit of spending beyond our means, and it must be stopped or else generations to come will be saddled with debt, left unable to harness the American dream and prosper because it simply will no longer exist.

Over the past few days, Lehman Brothers has announced several actions one might not expect from what is arguably the most notorious bankrupt company of the last decade. It is looking to name a new board of directors and is engaging in a bidding war for another company.

Sooner or later, income taxes on upper-income groups in the United States, including the uber-rich, have to be raised to balance the federal budget, and to restore tax fairness.

The BCS National Championship game is set with a rematch of Alabama and LSU, but that doesn't mean the upcoming bowl game in New Orleans is without controversy.

Rockstar entrepreneurs. That's what Internet startups are made of, and I'm sitting across from one of New York's first, Ben Lerer. Seven years ago, Lerer and his college friend Adam Rich started a men's lifestyle brand, Thrillist, born from an idea and $7 domain name. Fast-forward to today: Thrillist is reaching more than four million subscribers daily. It's an astounding number, especially for a city guide email, and Lerer, current CEO of Thrillist, looks back on the company's...

Don’t look now but we’re already in the zettabyte era. Next year, market forecaster IDC predicts, the volume of digital content will rise 48 percent, to 2.7 zettabytes.

Occupy Wall Street is the sharp tip of the spear, the Seal Team 6, that has driven the first hole in the unbroken line of Grover Norquist's famed anti-tax, pro-elite movement--and its so-called pledge. OWS has already done its work, already changed the public debate.

Jerry Sandusky gave his first on-camera interview since being charged with molesting eight boys over the course of 15 years, with more incidents reportedly under investigation. As the man at the center of the Pennsylvania State University child sex-abuse scandal, it may not have been a wise move.

The one-year anniversary is approaching: on Dec. 11, 2010, Suffolk County police discovered the first of what turned out to be eight bodies of women sex workers along Ocean Parkway in Gilgo Beach, Cedar Beach and Oak Beach.

The U.S. Congress has lifted a five-year-old ban on horse slaughter in America, and many believe it's likely that horse meat for human consumption may be available within the month.

Complaints of racial profiling against the NYPD are no new phenomenon, but evidence of a systemic trend of police officers targeting minorities in recent years should trouble New Yorkers of all stripes.

It seemed like it was only yesterday (perhaps because it actually was only three days ago, on Tuesday), when the shares of the banking giant teetered precariously above the $5 mark, a few cents off the dreaded "4 handle." Many were predicting a catastrophic sell-off. Fast-forward to today and Bank of America is trading at $5.74 per share, a jump of 13.66 percent in slightly over 60 hours.

Despite very public instances of the negative consequences of hazing, there are benefits to the method.