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The Diplomat

Daniel Dae Kim built a career by picking his battles, walking away from a job only when the inequities got too big to ignore. He still believes Hollywood can be reformed.

The Detonations of Alice Neel

A survey of her portraits at the Met is packed with raw emotional power.

The City Politic: David Freedlander

Stringer Theory The comptroller’s reward for a career in public service? Third place in the polls.

Political Animals: Olivia Nuzzi

The No-Splash Tell-all What the muted reaction to Hunter Biden’s crackfueled memoir says about his father’s Washington.

Moral Panic Is Back With a Vengeance

Lil Nas X’s “Montero” is the latest song to raise the hackles of conservative commentators—and everyone has a little something to gain from the controversy.

Brawl Games

Kingpins and wannabes barrel through the London underworld.

BidenBucks Is Beeple Is Bitcoin

In a system rigged by the rich, outsiders have to make their own volatility.

Secretary Swell on a Pissed-off Planet

Groomed on Park Avenue nd in the 16th Arrondissement, Secretary of State Antony Blinken confronts a world that just might be post-diplomacy.

Belinda Carlisle on the Best (and Worst) of The Go-Go's

IN 1982, the Go-Go’s became the first and only (yes, still) all-women band who wrote their own songs and played their own instruments to have a No. 1 album on the Billboard charts with 1981’s Beauty and the Beat.

The Culture Pages – The Queen of Fractured Fairy Tales

Hlen Oyeyemi writes magical, unsettling novels in which nothing remains fixed. She has lived her life that way, too.

Christian Walker

A rising conservative star on TikTok.

Artist Emily Mason's 4,700-Square-Foot Studio Is Just As She Left It

She painted there for 40 years.

An overwhelming demand for professional counseling has spawned slickly marketed companies promising a service they cannot possibly provide.

The summer of 2020, recalls Hillary Schieve, was hard. The pandemic was bearing down across the country, protests over racial injustice were erupting, and her sister’s breast cancer had become terminal. Schieve moved her sister into her house to take care of her; at night, she would watch the news and wonder how she was going to keep it together. Then her sister died, and a few weeks later, Schieve’s brother unexpectedly died too.

Lana Del Rey – A Case of Her

An homage to wild white womanhood that still feels hushed with the volume turned up.

The National Interest: Jonathan Chait

Schooling the Left Biden’s first big break with his allies is over classroom reopenings.

The City Politic: David Freedlander

Yang vs. Everybody With three months to go, Andrew Yang is still, improbably, looking like New York’s next mayor.

King of the Geezer Teasers

Inside Randall Emmett’s direct-to- video empire, where many of Hollywood’s most bankable stars have found lucrative early retirement.

How the Strand Lost Its Workers

The owner says the bookstore’s hanging by a thread—and staff say they’re the ones paying the price.

The Criminal Minds Of Jim And Tim

The Clemente brothers left the FBI to become Hollywood’s go-to murder consultants. Now they’re rebooting the biggest franchise in truecrime TV: America’s Most Wanted.

Lorraine O'Grady – Just Watch Me

More than four decades into her trailblazing career, Lorraine O’Grady finally has the world’s attention.

Royal Revisit

A sequel squeaks by with just enough gags and a lot of nostalgia.

43 Minutes With... Happy

Meditations on loneliness with a 50-year-old Elephas maximus.

Anything for You

In Kazuo Ishiguro’s latest novel, artificial intelligence meets real sacrifice.

Abuse and Power

Andrew Cuomo’s governorship has been defined by cruel behavior that disguised chronic mismanagement. Why was that celebrated for so long?

THE MAGIC MOLEKULE

There has never been a better business (or planetary) climate in which to sell a handsome and expensive product designed to calm and stoke your anxieties about dirty air.

The Character-Actor Power Couple

Bill Camp and Elizabeth Marvel are two of the most in-demand performers working today. They are also really cute together.

True Believers

Listening in as two icons talk about their problematic fave: America.

The Receipt Keeper D'Angelo Wallace always knows how to cut through the chaos.

IF YOU WANT TO KNOW what’s going on with YouTubers or anybody else with a modicum of influence online, you’ve got two options. You can watch their videos and scour Instagram—or you can get thee to a YouTube drama channel. And no one does a channel quite like D’Angelo Wallace. The Texas-based 22-year-old packs his superlong explainer videos (many of them run over an hour) with timelines, charts, and commentary—a hybrid model that perfectly encapsulates the messiness of the influencers he covers. He now has more than 2.18 million subscribers. “I will say it’s not necessarily a case of me always striving to have the best research, or I’m always going to be 100 percent correct,” Wallace said. “I just am obsessed with the storytelling of it all.”

Where's the Party?: Allison P. Davis

Are You Ready to Be Touched? Reintroducing the thrill of casual physical contact.

The Hierarchy of Tragedy

In this British series about the AIDS crisis, doom confers importance.