New York Diary: The Broken Heart Just in time for Valentine’s Day, let’s remember we’ve all had our hearts broken. People on the street were asked to tell us about the jerk who treated them bad, and what they’d say to that jerk right now. Photographs by Geoff Badner, transcription by Rosecrans Baldwin.

Washington, D.C. Official Washington, D.C., is tailored for certain groups of people: tourists, politicians, and lobbyists. But setting aside the monuments and museums leaves a series of parks where the city’s history and social conditions are thrown into stark relief. The final installment in our series.

Shadows Everywhere We interrupt our weekly Non-Expert column to bring you this dispatch, beginning a new series of letters: Our author in Rome returns home, from Italy to Idaho, finding chaos everywhere he looks.

Budgets for the Aspiring Rich In today’s world every cent counts. Make them count even more by learning a thing or two about how to successfully live on a budget. Michael Cotton switches on the desk lamp and flips through your receipts.