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Byline: David A. Kaplan Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. is smart, shrewd and funny. His mastery as a D.C. appellate lawyer--the best of his time, arguing 39 times before [...]

Byline: David A. Kaplan The Republican hijacking of the Supreme Court may actually turn out to be a good thing, but not for the reason you think. First there will [...]

Byline: David A. Kaplan On September 27, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding her sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. It was eerily [...]

Byline: David A. Kaplan Here's a game I play when I give a talk about the Supreme Court: 'If you think Roe v. Wade was a persuasive ruling, raise your [...]

This article presents an excerpt from the book 'The Silicon Boys and Their Valley of Dreams' and examines life in Woodside, CA., a small town where many high-tech executives who have made fortunes in Silicon Valley have chosen to live. Relevant points include the exorbitant price of many homes in Woodside, their owners' concern for security, the popularity of horseback riding and other expensive pursuits, and the effect that this influx of millionaires is having on what was once a small, rural town.

Dan Hoffman Isn't What Comes To Mind When You Think of a millionaire. The unassuming Hoffman, 32, wasn't born rich, he doesn't live in a lavish house or fight cigars [...]

Forget that place bill gates is building. Down the road a mile from the Marriott Conference Center look-alike he'll soon call home is the real Xanadu of the Microsoft realm. [...]

Discovered only two years ago, a brilliant Hale-Bopp arrives in the night sky. This one is worth the watch. The heavens smiled upon Alan Hale and Tom Bopp during the [...]

You've rented the videos, bought the toys, compared your boss to Darth Vader. Now, 20 years later, go back to the theater. `Star Wars' strikes back. IT WAS A REVIVAL [...]

IN THE GREATEST METROPOLIS on earth, on one of those sparkling autumn afternoons that light up any imagination, the mayor has a few moments to himself. Crawling up Sixth Avenue [...]

Gay activists won a major victory in the U.S. Supreme Court last week. But for all the celebrating they have far to go before gaining equality before the law. THE [...]

Of all nature's tantrums, a snowstorm is the most beguiling. Earthquakes shake our very being, tornadoes blow away our trailer parks, volcanoes evoke the wrath of Hades. But snow is [...]

In just over a year, wonder Marc Andressen and Jim Clark created Netscape, the hottest tech company on Wall Street. Here's how. HERE'S WHAT HAppens when you,re the hottest, coolest, [...]

IF IT'S SWIFT PUNISHMENT YOU want, you'll love the case of Giuseppe Zangara. Back on Feb. 15, 1933, in the middle of Miami, this slightly deranged malcontent pulled a gun [...]

Universal Studios will open its $2.7 bil Islands of Adventure park in May, 1999 in Orlando, FL, in an attempt to attract older kids and to compete with the nearby Disney World. The new park is made up of 5 themed areas, including Jurassic Park, and has a 22,000-space parking lot.

In principle, Americans love the death penalty. But in practice, few convicts are ever executed. Here's why. THE NATION'S ONGOING DEBATE over the death penalty is now centered on a [...]

The RMS Titanic sank 84 years ago, but there's a new wave of interest in the great ship. See the mini-series, hum the musical, buy the cookbook WHEN EDITH BROWN [...]

EVERY DIRECTOR WANTS HIS ACTORS to look just right, and Jan De Bont's no different. That's why he's up so early this Sunday--just 12 days before his $85 million 'Twister' [...]

Hollywood may be full of big babies, but 38-year-old John Lasseter takes pride in being a kid. The animation genius behind 'Toy story, knows more about Bugs, Daffy, Crayolas and [...]

GET READY TO O.D. ON MORE O.J. THE trial is over, but the recriminations are just beginning. After all the analyses about race and gender, class and wealth, television and [...]

Byline: David A. Kaplan Twenty years ago, I got my taste of George Steinbrenner. We were doing a NEWSWEEK cover on the notorious owner of the New York Yankees--the 'George' [...]

Byline: David A. Kaplan; With Samantha Henig and Matthew Philips No. 2 pencils ready? Today's question: will the College Board's new Score Choice policy for the SAT, which lets students [...]

In a battle of egos on the high seas, size counts. Three Americans go at it to see who can build the ultimate sailing yacht. Tom Perkins, the legendary Silicon [...]

Byline: David A. Kaplan It's been almost two decades since the last 'Indiana Jones' film. But I've been waiting even longer for Karen Allen. I can't wait for the return [...]

Taking out the trash. Setting the table. Doing the laundry. For millions of kids, doing chores is a part of everyday life. But for a lot of kids, completing household [...]

Taking out the trash. Setting the table. Doing laundry. For millions of kids, doing chores is a part of everyday life. But for many others, completing household tasks is a [...]

Byline: David A. Kaplan To research a book about Silicon Valley venture capitalist Tom Perkins, and the 287-foot modern clipper ship he'd just launched, I headed off for the superyacht's [...]

Byline: David A. Kaplan (With Alan Schwarz in Orlando) Walking around major League Baseball's recent winter meetings in Florida, Kim Ng might just as well have been one of the [...]

Byline: David A. Kaplan California's attorney general, Bill Lockyer, says criminal indictments of Hewlett-Packard officials could come any day now in the wake of the spying scandal first disclosed by [...]

Byline: David A. Kaplan (With Karen Breslau, Brad Stone, Nadine Joseph, Daniel McGinn and Dana Gordon; Editor's Note: David A. Kaplan is writing a book for HarperCollins about Perkins's superyacht.) [...]

Byline: David A. Kaplan It's not as if he needs the royalties--but doesn't everybody want to be a novelist? Tom Perkins, at 73, is a titan of American business, even [...]

Byline: David A. Kaplan I grew up around sailboats. My father didn't like to run the engine unless it meant escaping mosquitoes in a dead calm on Long Island Sound. [...]

Byline: David A. Kaplan Out Of The Park It's only May, but many teams in the competition-starved majors are already out of it. Here's a way to compensate: read a [...]

Byline: David A. Kaplan Major League Baseball may be reinstating Pete Rose, but it now faces another clemency conundrum: should 'Shoeless Joe' Jackson, of 'Black Sox' infamy, also be granted [...]

Byline: --David A. Kaplan It's a no-brainer: one of the fall's best museum exhibitions opens this Friday, Nov. 15. 'Einstein,' at the American Museum of Natural History in New York [...]

Byline: David A. Kaplan Sixty years ago, 'Memphis Bill' Terry had it right. 'Baseball,' said the manager and Hall of Fame first baseman of the old New York Giants, 'must [...]

Byline: -David A. Kaplan 'Say, Len, are you sure that stop sign is supposed to bend over like that?' I gently ask my instructor as I lurch forward in this [...]

As both campaigns and the entire country awaited the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Bush v. Gore, the vice president couldn't sit still. The vote would decide who'd win Election [...]

Early on, much more than possible recounts, the issue of the butterfly ballot in Palm Beach County consumed the Gore campaign. If a lawsuit went his way, it would eliminate [...]

Who would lead the legal effort for George W. Bush? The campaign immediately thought of a man who combined political smarts and moral rectitude--Jack Danforth, the retired GOP senator and [...]

Ballparks have always had a special hold on baseball fans (at least those with a lyrical bent). 'Green fields of the mind'... 'full of fragments of ourselves'--this is the stuff [...]

Talk about millennial madness. If anybody ever needed convincing that fin de siecle America is a mighty strange place, they only had to visit Yankee Stadium last week. Here was [...]

Give Martin Frankel credit for intrigue. When investigators searched his Connecticut mansion last spring, they found not just surveillance cameras and 80 computers but research on extradition. Apparently Frankel, who's [...]

It is, and always will be, simply, The Fix. And 'Shoeless Joe' will forever be the name associated with it. In the autumn of 1919, in a nation just over [...]

Talk about weirdo neighbors. Up in the 'back country' of wealthy Greenwich, Conn., lived a man named Marty Frankel. There was nothing unusual about his compound of multi-million-dollar homes just [...]