Matt Bai

Phil Collins is candid about the ups and downs in his new memoir, “Not Dead Yet.”

By Matt Bai

The press once considered a politician’s personal life off-limits – until one week in 1987.

By Matt Bai

George Yao, an ordinary guy, spent $250 a week conquering the online game Clash of Clans, at one point bringing five iPads into the shower with him so that none of his accounts would go inactive.

By Matt Bai

The baseball star Curt Schilling dazzled a state government with his video-game business plan. But two years later, it was game over.

By Matt Bai

Chuck Hagel for president? Mario Batali salutes the inauguration.

By Will Shortz, Dave Itzkoff, Samantha Henig, Hope Reeves, Maud Newton, Eliot Glazer, Matt Bai, Marnie Hanel, Mario Batali, Lizzie Skurnick, Eric Spitznagel, Peter Andrey Smith, John Hodgman and Valerie Harper

When I first took Richard Ben Cramer out to ask his advice on a book I wanted to write, I forgot my wallet. I couldn’t even buy my own lunch, let alone his.

By Matt Bai

The G.O.P. vs. the Electoral College; Jean Valjean vs. Jean-Claude Van Damme.

By Dave Itzkoff, Matt Bai, Eric Spitznagel, John Hodgman, Samantha Henig, Maud Newton, Marnie Hanel, Mario Batali, Will Shortz, Lizzie Skurnick, Eliot Glazer, Peter Andrey Smith, Taffy Brodesser-Akner and Dylan Lauren

Sushi-scented perfume; how to propose divorce.

By Tyler Cowen, Dave Itzkoff, Samantha Henig, Maud Newton, Hope Reeves, Matt Bai, Mario Batali, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Lizzie Skurnick, John Hodgman, Eric Spitznagel, Marnie Hanel, Eliot Glazer and Raoul Felder

Petraeus vs. Prometheus; China’s low-rise-jeans high-rise.

By Dave Itzkoff, Matt Bai, Eric Spitznagel, John Hodgman, Samantha Henig, Maud Newton, Marnie Hanel, Hope Reeves, Tyler Cowen, Jessica Gross, Eliot Glazer, Mario Batali, Lizzie Skurnick, Spencer Bailey and Mike Huckabee

President Obama, during his “grand bargain” negotiations with House Speaker John A. Boehner in the summer of 2011, signed off on painful cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, even if he never once mentioned that during his reelection campaign.

By Matt Bai