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There are so many reasons to want a little house on the Russian River. For Mark Jensen and Johanna Grawunder, the draw was partly sentimental: Mr. Jensen had spent part...

The name Ailey is synonymous with dance. Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is more than a company: It’s a brand, an integral piece of the cultural fabric of this country....

On Kilroy Realty’s website, the developer declares that it “has a love affair with great art.” These days, many builders do. The 36-story Indeed Tower in downtown Austin, Texas, among...

Few enemies are more vengeful than school queen bees, especially the adult versions. Doubt it? Cross the PTA president at your kids’ school and discover what evil lurks behind her...

For more than two decades, Democrats have watched with frustration as tax policy in the United States has settled into a pattern, one that Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat,...

It has been more than a year since the fateful morning last August when, outside Springfield in southwestern Ohio, a minivan veered into oncoming traffic and rammed into a school...

Summer is hot dogs and ice pops, shaggy dinners at dusk, the melting mixture of energy and malaise that gives the season its shape. But that’s not fall. Fall is...

“A sister is not a friend.” So begins Coco Mellors’s sophomore novel, “Blue Sisters,” whose three adult protagonists are in a constant fight — with one another, with their various...

Investors in private real estate funds have a problem: Even as the prices of office buildings and other commercial properties tumble, their holdings are locked up, possibly for years. Wall...

In May of last year, Marcus Carli, the plant manager of the Master Lock factory in Milwaukee, Wis., called a surprise meeting with the board of United Auto Workers Local...