A $450 million da Vinci is cool. Here’s the real reason rich people spend millions on art

Gasps rippled through the Christie’s auction house. And then cheers. “Salvator Mundi,” a 600-year-old painting by Leonardo da Vinci, had just sold for $450 million. It was the most expensive painting ever sold at auction. What makes the stratospheric price even more remarkable? The poster-sized […]

The Fallout Over the Al Franken Allegations Underscore That Seeing Is Believing

On Thursday, Los Angeles radio show host Leeann Tweeden accused Senator Al Franken of kissing and groping her during a 2006 USO tour through the Middle East. It’s the same icky, infuriating story of sexual assault Americans have heard countless times over the past few […]