Steve Coll on the Tea Party’s revenge; James Surowiecki on Upstart and student debt; Lauren Collins on the hottest chili peppers; Rebecca Mead on the Greek-yogurt wars; Adam Gopnik on baking bread; Dana Goodyear on eating horse and whale; Jane Kramer on Massimo Bottura; Gopnik on J.F.K.’s assassination; Peter Schjeldahl on Christopher Wool; Sasha Frere-Jones on Tri Angle Records; Alex Ross on Valery Gergiev; Joan Acocella on “Sleeping Beauty”; David Denby on “Dallas Buyers Club”; thoughts on takeout from Akhil Sharma, Gabrielle Hamilton, Lena Dunham, Zadie Smith, and Donald Antrim; fiction by Thomas McGuane; and more.