On Friday, September 25, 2013, the day after his namesake advertising agency abruptly filed for bankruptcy, David Lipman returned to the company’s 22,000-square-foot headquarters in New York’s Meatpacking District to sort out paperwork with his accountants. As Lipman tells it, he was exiting the office when a white van ... More

Princess Eugenie of York Country: EnglandPlace in the line of succession: SeventhDay job: Benefit-auctions manager at art-auction website Paddle8Common moment: Since relocating to New York City for her job, Eugenie's been spotted hauling boxes of take out pizza through SoHo.   More

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While Main Street is clearly world-weary of Wall Street, particularly after the financial crisis of 2008, it seems that some of Wall Street is feeling the fatigue as well. There’s a growing exodus of financiers leaving their high-paying jobs in the dust to pursue other opportunities. Instead of channeling money to and from institutions, some ... More

At 12, Sam was bright and eager but sad, almost clinically so. His mother and father did not fall into that category of wealthy parents we've begun to indict for working too much and pressuring their kids to perform. They were encouraging but mindful not to push too hard. They ... More

Debbie Dingell is less than a year into her freshman term as the congresswoman for Michigan’s 12th district, but it’s a job for which she has spent nearly her entire life preparing.  A onetime General Motors executive, Dingell—who drives a red Cadillac—has been married for more than ... More

With Donald Trump’s three eldest children helping to run the day-to-day operations of his company, the presidential aspirant can focus on polls and policy. So says his 31-year-old son, Eric, who has been “putting in a lot of flight miles” to keep the family firm on the right ... More

David Edwards, professor of engineering at Harvard, is perched on a wavy green velvet banquette inside Café ArtScience, the experimental restaurant he co-owns in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Here, cocktails are garnished with flavored vapors, university classes are taught in a pod-like private dining room and the foie gras terrine just happens ... More

As an MIT graduate student with a background in electrical engineering, Ayah Bdeir found herself increasingly concerned that her field had become inaccessible to the average person. “For so long,” she says, “we’ve been hiding the complexity of technology in beautiful closed cases, making it niche when it actually affects ... More

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