The op-ed heard round the world—Greg Smith’s scathing New York Times attack on Goldman Sachs—dealt another blow to the firm’s reeling reputation. Will C.E.O. Lloyd Blankfein have to go? Bethany McLean goes inside the rumor mill. 

It took everything from rigged traffic lights to Tony Blair making pitches urinal-side for London to win the 2012 Olympics. Digging out of the ruinous $14.5 billion budget hole will require even more creativity.

From monogrammed playing cards and iPhone cases to a world’s worth of cheese, deputy editor Punch Hutton divines the most decadent gifts for the lady of the week.

Partly culled from the personal diaries of a young Barack Obama’s girlfriend, an exclusive selection from biographer David Maraniss’s new book on the president, Barack Obama: The Story.

Talk queen Kelly Ripa opens up to George Wayne about her unlikely path to morning TV’s center stage, her dream Regis replacement, and her husband Mark Consuelos’s sexy stripper past.