There are a variety of reasons why Ed Koch remains one of New York’s most esteemed former mayors.

Ed Koch remembers his first days as New York’s surprise mayor and his early confrontations with municipal unions.

Amid Greenwich Village’s days of Bohemianism, dime beers and a radical Village Voice, Ed Koch was “a liberal with sanity.”

After a $1,000,000 doctor bill, Ed Koch is in favor of whatever reform legislation, with all of its warts, makes it through the Senate.

If the president doesn’t exercise his authority to get out of Afghanistan, he will not only lose the Democratic majority in the House, he will also go down as a […]

After serving in the Battle of the Bulge, in which 19,000 of his fellow Americans were killed, he had a hardened attitude: “I’m not afraid of death. Death is a […]

The legendary mayor endured two fortuitous losses in his early political career: one while campaigning against Eisenhower, and one that helped him avoid Albany, “a fate worse than death.”

The former mayor’s family had to abandon New York for Newark during the Great Depression.

Schuman’s Dad said that he might need to adjust his attitude to get ahead.

When fashion labels approached Schuman about advertising, editorial integrity became an issue.

Schuman didn’t get much career advice because he never wanted any.

Pablo Picasso would be Schuman’s ideal since the mad Spanish painter was always trying to improve his craft.

A successful design blog requires perspective, heavy editing, and photos you can’t find anywhere else.

This Midwestern guy still looks up to Mom and Pops, but any rugged individual with a vision gets a nod.

Despite professional stylists and ample funds, the rich and famous rarely hit the mark, according to the influential blogger.

Once it seemed sketchy, but now the Big Apple seems clean, modern and safe.

Economic hardship has forced many people to fall in love with their existing wardrobe and make what is old new.

Forget high-end brands: the subtleties of excellent posture, exquisite tailoring, and 80 year-old Milanese men will do the trick.

A conversation with The Sartorialist, an influential fashion blogger.

Growing up in the Midwest, Schuman initially saw fashion as an in with women.

The digital revolution has made filmmaking technologies available to the masses. But the idea that it makes us all artists, says Ken Burns, is “bullshit.”

The most effective question he ever asked a subject from behind the camera wasn’t a question at all.

It’s a classic historian’s question, but Ken Burns rejects it, insisting that “human nature is the only given.”

According to Ken Burns, imposing a narrative on the past keeps humans from going crazy—and is an act of love. Critics who find that view tidy and sentimental are revealing […]

Does making a documentary deepen or exhaust Ken Burns’s appreciation of its subject? And does he ever start imagining his life as one of his own films?

Filmmaker Ken Burns describes how he hopes “The National Parks” will succeed both as a topical statement about conservation and a timeless human story.

Inspired by Twain’s own example, the “Mark Twain” documentarian seeks to explore quintessentially American issues of “race and space.”

From cutting huge amounts of footage to zooming and panning on still photos, the documentarian explains the techniques that distinguish his films—and why changing them now would be “ridiculous.”

As a young director with a risky film, Ken Burns had countless doors slammed in his face. How did he push past them, and how would he advise today’s young […]