Anti -Democratic Forces Are Winning The Post-Election

The bad news since the blue wave the more republicans lose, the harder they work to rig the game.

Mario Batali's Empire In The Wake Of Mario Batali

When the allegations of Mario Batali’s sexual misconduct came to light last December, the fallout was immediate. By the time the first story was published— including accusations that ranged from unwanted propositions and forcible touching to the kissing and groping, caught on security videotape, of a woman who appeared to be unconscious—the celebrity chef had agreed to remove himself from the operations of his two dozen–plus restaurants.

29 Minutes With Sherrod Brown

Is looking this rumpled a path to the presidency?

The Serial Killer And The 'Less Dead'

Authorities believe Samuel Little may have murdered more people than anyone in U.S. history. Jillian Lauren, the only reporter who’s talked to him, tells how he was caught—and why he almost got away with his crimes.

Select All: Max Read

How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Turns out, a lot of it, actually.

64 Minutes With Installation Artist Christo

The installation artist returns to the scene of his Miami “crime.”

Listening To Estrogen

Hormones have always been a third rail in women’s mental health. They may also be a skeleton key.

Would Patrolling With The Border Patrol Change Your mind About The Border?

Some Border Patrol agents think that if liberal Americans saw what they saw, they’d change their mind about the border.

Folio: Yoko Ono Revisits Her Past

And the weather in her head.

Sandra Oh Gets Her Due!

After decades in supporting parts, Emmy nominee Sandra Oh plays the hero in Killing Eve.

Inside Blaze Foley

Ethan Hawke’s Blaze reconsiders an unsung country songwriter.

The Industry Imagining The Future Of W Magazine

Stefano Ronchi, editor of W magazine, has had just about enough, albeit in an unmussed, well- mannered, and not terribly bothered sort of way. It was the afternoon of August 9, the day after the magazine’s owner, the once mythically flush publishing firm of Condé Nast, had called a companywide meeting to run through various ways to save itself (most of which has already been leaked) after losing $120 million last year. Back-office functions were to be merged, seven of the company’s 23 floors at 1 World Trade Center would be sublet, and three magazines—Golf Digest, Brides and W—were going to be sold.

Tessa Thompson Knows People Can't Stop Thinking About Her … And Tweeting And Gifting And Talking About Her Love Of Goats, And Those Vagina Pants

IT’S UNCLEAR, STILL, who is to blame for the situation that occurred at Frank’s Cocktail Lounge in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. It could easily be the weather. The night air is the sort of steam-room moist-hot that allows for only one of two states of being: lethargic or horny. Even inside, with A/C on, our thighs stick to the bar’s cracked red vinyl seats. Or it could be the music.

Revenge Of Jamie Lee Curtis

In the new Halloween, shes the one hunting Michael Myers. Welcome to the age of big-box offce post-trauma horror.

Plowing Through

The Republican process was the agenda.

Critics

David Edelstein on First Man and A Star Is Born Matt Zoller Seitz on The Romanoffs Jerry Saltz on Eugne Delacroix at the Met.

Beyond Banchan

Atomix redeems the often-stale notion of the chef s-counter tasting menuwith Korean flavors and seasonal flair.

The Next Michael Urie

The star of Broadways Torch Song was worried about being typecast in gay rolesbefore he realized there were so many different kinds.

202 Minutes With … Rob Delaney

The comedian becomes an envoy from the land of bereavement.

Pay Attention

Marys Seacole and the political weight of caregiving.

Ta-Nehisi Coates Is An Optimist Now

A conversation about race and 2020.

Rocco Returns

The TV “personality” is back in the kitchen at the Meatpacking District’s Standard Grill.

The Swamp: Olivia Nuzzi

Trump’s Rolodex His phone friends may be more important than his staff. What’s that about?

What Stacey Abrams Should Do Next?

The Georgian who is usually sure about everything finds herself conflicted about her future.

The Man Who Was Almost Killed By Don Quixote

Terry Gilliam on the movie that took him three decades to make.

126 Minutes With …Ani Difranco

The musician pays a visit to New York, and the ’90s.

Chait On The Biden Boomerang

Life of the Party What Joe Biden is teaching Democrats about Democrats.

Randall Park's Small-Town L.A.

The star of Fresh Off the Boat has made an occasionally mortifying coming-of-age film,Always Be My Maybe, inspired by his own life.

How Many Bones Would You Break To Get Laid?

“Incels”—lonely, angry, misogynist men— are going under the knife to reshape their faces, and their dating prospects.

Why New York Can't Have Nice Things

It costs three times more to build a subway station in New York than in Paris. We’d be living in a whole different kind of city if we could change that.