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The Schoolyard: Gail Cornwall

Not Rich or Poor Enough for the Ivy League Why do the pretty well off have the worst college acceptance rates?

Neighborhood News: Weed City

How pot stores colonized the Lower East Side.

The National Interest: Jonathan Chait

Are Young People Actually Progressive? The mistaken assumptions of Democrats have put the party in peril.

JORDAN NEELY WAS HERE

HE HAD PLACES HE BELONGED AND PEOPLE LOOKING OUT FOR HIM. HOW DID HE END UP DYING, ALONE, AT THE HANDS OF A STRANGER ON THE SUBWAY?

Let's Discuss ... The Best Theater of the Year

Sara Holdren and Jackson McHenry saw a lot of excellent pandemic-adjacent plays-but also exhilarating productions about a fractious 1970s rock band, a six-foot vagina, and the awfulness of test prep.

The Year in Culture – The Best Comedy Specials of the Year

2023's best television series, movies, albums, art shows, books, podcasts, and more.

Let's Discuss ... The Best Television Of The Year

TV critics Kathryn VanArendonk, Jen Chaney, and Roxana Hadadi on the technological anxiety looming over the small screen.

Let's Discuss ... The Best Movies of the Year

What's that sound? Could it be the swan song of the franchise era? Critics Bilge Ebiri and Alison Willmore cast their bets-and name non-superhero favorites.

The Year in Culture – The Best Albums of the Year

2023's best television series, movies, albums, art shows, books, podcast, and more.

The Age Gappers

They say they're happy. Why is it so hard to believe them?

Αn American Girlhood in the Ozempic Era

Parents, activists, and doctors are divided about giving children new drugs for weight loss. At age 13, Maggie Ervie decided to take them.

Very Offline

Eulalie evokes another time, down to the phone calls.

Cloud City in Tribeca

After Inna Khidekel and Bert van der Walt bought their first apartment, they let their designer, Timothy Godbold, surprise them.

What to Get the Kids?

THE PARENTS ON STAFF at the Strategist have their own chat room-a place where these shopping obsessives share among themselves the not-so-attractive-but-attention-holding toy racetrack that was a huge hit and kids' magazines that actually get read. We decided to infiltrate this brain trust and ask them to talk children's gifts: the ones theirs have asked for directly this year, the toys that actually get the most use around the house, and what they'll be buying over the holidays.

The Campaign Is Going Great

To Reelect the Extremely Old Man Dragged Down by Inflation and War and Trailing His Criminally Indicted Opponent

Your Phone Is the Reason You Feel Broke

It's a microcosm of the weird, sour vibrancy of the economic moment.

Damian Williams

The SDNY U.S. Attorney has emerged as one of the country's gutsiest prosecutors and a huge potential headache for Mayor Adams.

Billionaire Burger

Why the rich and famous are lining up for a taste of small-town America.

Baby, Remember My Name George Santos knows he deserves to be a star.

THE CLOCK SHOULD BE TICKING on George Santos's quarter-hour of MAGA \"It\"-girl fame, and with even his own party kicking him to the congressional curb, it makes you wonder what could prolong, or transform, the public's interest in him.

'It's All About the View'

After living in this apartment for nearly 18 years, photographer Amanda Weil taught herself how to renovate it.

151 Minutes With ...Norman Finkelstein

A tirelessly cantankerous advocate for Palestinian freedom takes a rare turn in the limelight.

It Could Always Be Worse

Fargo finds new foes for its cast of formidable women.

Charging in Without a Plan

In Ridley Scott's Napoleon, a clown claims the crown.

Breath Control

André 3000 fans have waited decades for a solo rap album. He offers flute instead.

So When's He Getting an Oscar?

The key year may be 2027.

The End of His Heartthrob Era

An assessment of Chalamet's sex appeal as he steps into the role of Willy Wonka, one of the most sexless characters put to screen.

It's His Red Carpet to Lose

Few stars have put more energy into redefining the suit.

They Discovered Timmy

Chalamet's earliest directors on all the signs he'd be a star.

How French Is He, Really? Chéri, if you have to ask...

TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET would like you to know he's French. He brings it up in interviews, attributing to his Frenchness both his curls and his passion for the Saint-Étienne soccer team.

The Boy King

He could be our next great leading man-if he can figure out what kind he wants to be.