July 15, 2012

Motherhood outside marriage now varies by class about as much as it does by race, and changes in family structure have broadened income gaps and posed new barriers to upward mobility.

The prospect of criminal cases related to the Libor scandal is expected to rattle the banking world and provide a new impetus for financial institutions to settle with the authorities.

The Knicks struck a deal to reacquire Raymond Felton, the veteran point guard, sparking immediate, furious speculation that the franchise was ready to let Jeremy Lin leave for Houston.

Penny Pritzker, an heiress who hates being called an heiress, ran Barack Obama’s fund-raising for 2008, but her commitment four years later has become a matter of mystery.

A new black-box theater by Hugh Hardy complements Sarrinen’s Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincon Center.

With “Giselle,” the Paris Opera Ballet shows us a particularly Parisian way with a ballet that is internationally familiar onstage.

“Market Warriors” is an amusing scrum in which four experts compete to see who can make the biggest profit by buying items at a flea market and reselling them at auction.

The annual Latin Alternative Music Conference drew 1,250 artists and business people to New York this year.

With new tablets coming from Google and Microsoft, and rumors of one from Amazon, Apple’s response may be to introduce a smaller, less expensive version of its popular iPad.

Several of the city’s most strained institutions are partially or completely uninsured, state records show, lacking what is seen as a standard safeguard across the country.

An installment of Ecstatic Summer, part of the River to River Festival, featured the composers David Lang, Daniel Lopatin and William Brittelle in a program of ambient scores.

Bruce Springsteen and Paul McCartney had to take an early bow during a concert in London on Saturday after organizers turned off their microphones for exceeding the park’s sound curfew, The Associated Press reported.