The private club chain was saddled with debt. Now it’s prepping for a hedonism boom—and plans to IPO — When Nick Jones, the founder of Soho House, the chain of swank private member clubs, began plotting his invasion of Hong Kong more than a decade ago, he never could have predicted how bad the timing of its actual debut would be. The city, a former colony of the British…

Lee Grant was shut out of work for 12 years—and she cautions against snubbing the president’s loyalists — In early November, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez posted a tweet wondering whether anyone was “archiving these Trump sycophants for when they try to downplay or deny their complicity in the future.” At the time, it seemed obvious the president’s enablers would eventually come to regret their association with one of the…

The young Black mayor of Stockton, California, was a progressive superstar. Then a feisty local blog decided he had to go. — The plot against Michael Tubbs, the first Black mayor of Stockton, California, and the youngest person ever to run a major U.S. city, was conceived even before he took the oath of office, at the age of 26, on January 9, 2017. The mayorship was not a job for the…

There aren’t a lot of Democrats up here, which is why I got the job — I didn’t check the box volunteering to be an “election inspector,” as poll workers in New York state are called, just to have an excuse to stay off my phone on November 3. That would be the bonus. I did it to be civic-minded. To support the democratic project at…

Our First Amendment right has been systematically dismantled — just when we might need it most — Nobody sets out to be a political prisoner. …

A Black Lives Matter confrontation pitted neighbor against neighbor — and displayed the raw power of a social media flash mob — Steven “The Worldwalker” Newman found himself in some unnerving situations while circumnavigating the globe on foot as a young vagabond and writer. On a journey that began on April 1, 1983 — because people said he was a fool to do it — and ended on the same day four…

Astrology, private equity, a $1.1 billion gender discrimination lawsuit, and a precariously built bangle behemoth — Patent No. US D487,709 S was granted on March 23, 2004, to Carolyn Rafaelian-Ferlise of Cranston, Rhode Island. The application captured the concept in a mere five words: “an expandable wire bangle bracelet.” Further details would have been superfluous. The bracelet’s design, as illustrated in a set of accompanying renderings…

A portrait of a modern family undone by the political zeitgeist — He may have been just 16, a sheltered bookworm from a conservative evangelical family, but when it came to public speaking, Matthew Mason had the poise of a veteran statesman. Captured on video addressing an appreciative crowd at a 2007 anti-abortion banquet at Chico State, he wears a black suit…