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John David Washington

Pretending to be tourists with the BlacKkKlansman star.

10 Years After The Crash, We Are Still Living In The World It Brutally Remade

Sometimes you don’t know how deep the hole is until you try to fill it. In 2009, staring down what looked to anyone with a calculator like the biggest financial crisis since 1929, the federal government poured $830 billion into the economy—a spending stimulus bigger, by some measures, than the entire New Deal—and the country barely noticed.  It registered the crisis, though. The generation that came of age in the Great Depression was indelibly shaped by that experience of deprivation, even though what followed was what Henry Luce famously called, in 1941, “the American Century.” He meant the 20th, and, to judge from our present politics, at least—“Make America Great Again” on one side of the aisle; on the other, the suspicion that the president is a political suicide bomber, destroying the pillars of government—he probably wouldn’t have made the same declaration about the 21st. A decade now after the beginning of what has come to be called the Great Recession, and almost as long since economic growth began to tick upward and unemployment downward, the cultural and psychological imprint left by the financial crisis looks as profound as the ones left by the calamity that struck our grandparents. All the more when you look beyond the narrow economic data: at a new radical politics on both left and right; at a strident, ideological pop culture obsessed with various apocalypses; at an internet powered by envy, strife, and endless entrepreneurial hustle; at opiates and suicides and low birthrates; and at the resentment, racial and gendered and otherwise, by those who felt especially left behind. Over the following pages, we cast a look back, and tried to take a seismic reading of the financial earthquake and its aftershocks, including those that still jolt us today.

Lost Weegee Crime Photos Revealed!

UNSEEN FOR 82 YEARS HISTORIANS, JOURNALISTS ASTOUNDED !HIDING IN A JUNK STORE BOX

His Odd Present

With his fifth studio album, IGOR, Tyler, the Creator shows us where he’s been headed all along.

The Stolen Kids Of Sarah Lawrence

When Larry Ray visited his daughter at college, her roommates were happy to let him spend the night. Nine years later, they are still struggling to get out from under his grip.

39 Minutes With … H1ghSky1

The most popular video game on the planet anoints its youngest star yet.

Sea Wall In The Summertime

Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge in dialogue about taking their conjoined monologues to Broadway.

Ivanka To City: Drop Dead

After the White House, she probably CAN’T GO BACK to the city that made her. So she has cannily devised another EXIT STRATEGY.

Superrich People Problems

In its second season, Succession finds new levels of corruption and cruelty for its family of narcissists.

Anti-Fashion Plates

Vintage clothes and Thai-inspired comfort food share space in a quirky uptown café.

What Do You Wear When Your Body No Longer Resembles Itself?

How my body and I reconciled after a mastectomy.

Michelle Williams Flips The Billing For Fosse's Partner

Thanks to Michelle Williams, now we all know Gwen Verdon was a star.

A Dry Cleaner Spills Everything

Jerry Pozniak, owner and managing director of luxury laundry service Jeeves New York, has been in high-end clothing care for 33 years.

94 Minutes With...Ian Schrager

Forty years after founding Studio 54, hes finally ready tocome clean about what went down there. (But not about Roy Cohn.)

How The West Was Digitized

Rockstar Games, maker of the megahitGrand Theft Auto V, readies its next blockbuster, a follow-up to the Westernred dead redemption.

Critics

David Edelstein on Wildlife and Suspiria Sara Holdren onWhat the Constitution Means to Me.

The Making (And Unmaking) Of Paul's Boutique

The Beastie Boys made a masterpiece. And then they werefoiled by Donny Osmond.

The National Interest: Jonathan Chait

Of Course There Wasn’t Secret Contact With Russia It’s not a secret if it’s done in plain sight.

Difficult News

Lessons in journalism—and business—from editing the New York Times during the great digital disruption.

Measels For The One Percent

Vaccines, Waldorf schools, and the problem with liberal Luddites.

Asia Kate Dillon, Hollywood's Most Outspoken Nonbinary Actor

Asia Kate Dillon on finding the way to “they.”

From The Cut: American Made

Tom Ford goes to Brooklyn.

“Where Are The Hits, Alex?”

Alex Timbers and Baz Luhrmann discuss what it’s like bringing Moulin Rouge! to Broadway.

Farm To Skyscraper

Crown Shy brings uncommon finesse to Fidi.

The Democratic Primaries Might Be Anyone's Game To Lose, Except For Bill De Blasio

Bill De Blasio tries to find someone, somewhere, who wants to vote for him.

The Dessert Team

Nothing hurts our feelings more than a wedding dessert table thats arranged like a chain hotels Continental breakfast.

The Bride Wore Kate Spade

Ten days before her favorite designer died, one woman got married in (two pairs of) her shoes.

Tribes: House Of Xtravaganza

THIS IS A CURRENT family portrait—not a reunion— of the legendary House of Xtravaganza, founded in 1982 as part of the city’s ballroom scene.

The Body Politic: Rebecca Traister

No Time for Self-Care Will freshly minted progressives get their mojo back by November 6?

Philip Johnson, Nazi Spy?

A decade before he grew famous for his Glass House, he was enthusiastically at home in the Third Reich.