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NEWYORK, TIMES CHANGES

For the sake of the country—and the business model—the New York Times evolved during the Trump years: less dispassionate, more crusading. This has sparked a raw internal debate over the paper’s mission and future.

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10+ mins  |
November 09, 2020
Last Days
New York magazine

Last Days

Inside the White House as inevitability—and anger—set in.

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6 mins  |
November 09, 2020
Greenpoint's Greenest Building
New York magazine

Greenpoint's Greenest Building

The new public library cost a lot, and it may have been worth it.

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5 mins  |
November 09, 2020
Elvis Costello – This Year's Model
New York magazine

Elvis Costello – This Year's Model

Elvis Costello is back with his 31st (or so) studio album. But don’t look for any consolation from him.

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10+ mins  |
October 26– November 08, 2020
Ernesto's Interregnum
New York magazine

Ernesto's Interregnum

Between our critic’s first and last visits to the Basque-inspired taverna, not much (and everything) has changed.

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4 mins  |
October 26– November 08, 2020
The World's Best Bureaucrat
New York magazine

The World's Best Bureaucrat

As chairman of the Federal Reserve during the global pandemic, Jerome Powell has managed to do something almost unimaginable in Washington: a good job.

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10+ mins  |
October 26– November 08, 2020
Movies Were Better When Whoopi Was in Them
New York magazine

Movies Were Better When Whoopi Was in Them

The actress has already achieved EGOT status. Now, finally, she’s a Master of Culture.

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3 mins  |
October 26– November 08, 2020
Nerding Out With David Fincher
New York magazine

Nerding Out With David Fincher

The director talks about the decades-long journey behind Mank, his dense, bitter look at Hollywood history, political power, and the creative act.

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10+ mins  |
October 26– November 08, 2020
Enablement
New York magazine

Enablement

The torture self justification of one very powerful Trump loathing anonymous republican.

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10+ mins  |
October 26– November 08, 2020
Wide Awake
New York magazine

Wide Awake

The past four years have seen the birth of a modern progressive movement so vast and energetic it just might be equal to the right-wing forces that threaten its extinction.

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10+ mins  |
October 26– November 08, 2020
TRUMP INTERNATIONAL HOTEL WINNERS
New York magazine

TRUMP INTERNATIONAL HOTEL WINNERS

Fifty-one insiders who profited off the Trump presidency. A collaboration with WNYC’s Trump, Inc. podcast.

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10+ mins  |
October 26– November 08, 2020
The System: Zak Cheney-Rice
New York magazine

The System: Zak Cheney-Rice

White Houses Two visions of the suburbs are on the ballot. Both are myths.

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5 mins  |
October 26– November 08, 2020
The National Interest: Jonathan Chait
New York magazine

The National Interest: Jonathan Chait

The Off-Ramp From Authoritarianism What an election can and can’t save.

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6 mins  |
October 26– November 08, 2020
Reopenings – Midtown As Microcosm
New York magazine

Reopenings – Midtown As Microcosm

When it’s back, the city will be too.

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5 mins  |
October 12-25, 2020
When Nimby Met Maga
New York magazine

When Nimby Met Maga

Liberals on the Upper West Side wanted to oust hundreds of homeless men from a local hotel. Then Tucker Carlson took up their cause.

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10+ mins  |
October 12-25, 2020
Meanwhile, in Another World
New York magazine

Meanwhile, in Another World

How a Nicole Kidman–Hugh Grant drama series wound up becoming an inadvertent time capsule.

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10 mins  |
October 12-25, 2020
The National Interest: Good Genes
New York magazine

The National Interest: Good Genes

The president’s lifelong obsession with his superior DNA is put to the test.

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5 mins  |
October 12-25, 2020
The Writer's Room: I Couldn't Make This Stuff Up
New York magazine

The Writer's Room: I Couldn't Make This Stuff Up

The creator of ‘The Death of Stalin’ and ‘Veep’ on a week that surpassed satire.

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5 mins  |
October 12-25, 2020
Reality TV Glows Up
New York magazine

Reality TV Glows Up

Docuseries are television’s latest prestige offering, but they’re not so different from their trashier predecessors.

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8 mins  |
October 12-25, 2020
Angry Bird
New York magazine

Angry Bird

The story of John Brown, told with righteous fury.

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5 mins  |
October 12-25, 2020
Sohla El-Waylly, Food Wizard
New York magazine

Sohla El-Waylly, Food Wizard

After leaving Bon Appétit’s Test Kitchen, the chef now has her own show—where she’s paid fairly for her fantastic creations.

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7 mins  |
October 12-25, 2020
THE SWAMP: The Entire Presidency Is a Superspreading Event
New York magazine

THE SWAMP: The Entire Presidency Is a Superspreading Event

Down in the polls, high on steroids, and clinging to good health while endangering everyone else’s.

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10+ mins  |
October 12-25, 2020
THE CITY'S PERMANENT GOVERNMENT” HAS ALWAYS BUILT ITS WAY OUT OF CRISIS. BUT WHAT IF IT CAN'T?
New York magazine

THE CITY'S PERMANENT GOVERNMENT” HAS ALWAYS BUILT ITS WAY OUT OF CRISIS. BUT WHAT IF IT CAN'T?

The Panic Attack of the Power Brokers

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10+ mins  |
October 12-25, 2020
New York magazine

Injured?

Bruised egos, gobs of money, and the bitter feud that took down CELLI NO & BARNES, New York’s absurdly ubiquitous accident law firm.

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10+ mins  |
September 14 - 27, 2020
Rumaan Alam – Delusions of Whiteness
New York magazine

Rumaan Alam – Delusions of Whiteness

In Rumaan Alam’s new thriller, a white family staying at a Hamptons Airbnb is startled when the Black owners knock on the door.

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10+ mins  |
September 14 - 27, 2020
Dispatches - Returning to Restaurants
New York magazine

Dispatches - Returning to Restaurants

Our critic, fresh off hiatus, surveys the state of his neighborhood.

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5 mins  |
August 31–September 13, 2020
Lock Him Up?
New York magazine

Lock Him Up?

For the Republic to survive Trump’s presidency, he must be tried for his crimes. Even if that sparks a constitutional crisis of its own.

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10+ mins  |
September 14 - 27, 2020
New York magazine

Buying Myself Back

When does a model own her own image?

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10+ mins  |
September 14 - 27, 2020
Girl Power, Inc.
New York magazine

Girl Power, Inc.

Disney’s live-action Mulan loses the songs but amps up the corporate nationalism.

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5 mins  |
September 14 - 27, 2020
166 minutes with… Ben Smith
New York magazine

166 minutes with… Ben Smith

Starting trouble with the New York Times media columnist.

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10+ mins  |
September 14 - 27, 2020