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Shell Is Looking Forward
The fossil-fuel companies expect to not just survive climate change but profit from it.
Nevertheless, He Persisits
The ego and the altruism of Mike Bloomberg.
THE (J)OY OF FRAN
What you first need to understand is that I learned joie de vivre from The Nanny.
Garbage Language
Why do corporations speak the way they do?
Well, Here We Are
Two weeks until Iowa, the race has narrowed. One of these people could beat Trump, right?
Meghan Markle's Bigger Dreams
She isn’t letting the royal family get in her way.
You'll Want Frites With That
The Chez Ma Tante team’s classic-brasserie-style Le Crocodile feels familiar, but that’s the point.
Intelligencer – 11 Months From Today
A second term for Trump seems more possible than ever. But what would it look like?
45s and Heartbreak
A new High Fidelity broadens the vision of the original in more ways than one.
This Is Not a Love Story
When she started writing My Dark Vanessa at 16, Kate Elizabeth Russell saw her story about a student’s affair with a teacher as a romance. She sees it differently now.
What's in the Box?
Donald Judd wanted his work totally empty. Which allowed the world to make anything out of it.
THE IMMODERATE SUSAN COLLINS
After a long career voting across the aisle, why did the Maine senator gamble her legacy on Trump?
NBA 90210
The children of LeBron James and Dwyane Wade play on the same L.A. prep-school basketball team— along with the child of another NBA player, the seven-foot-tall son of a Chinese pro, and two other future first-round picks. It’s a very strange kind of teenage fame.
Josh Thomas Isn't Afraid of America
After Please Like Me, the Aussie comic now has his own (uncomfortably, hilariously honest) teen sitcom.
Ex–Bad Boy Pastoral
Dan Colen is still painting. But instead of raising hell, he’s raising pigs and sheep.
Diner Deluxe
Deliciousness is in the details at Sam Yoo’s casual but accomplished Golden Diner.
Janelle Monáe Has Got It Like That
The singer, actor, and leader of a vanguard of “mutants and droids” actually looks like she’s having fun.
Who Thought Sucking on a Battery Was a Good Idea?
Millions of Americans, some of them teens who would never have picked up a cigarette, are now vaping. Last year’s panic might be the least of our worries.
Design Hunting – Circular Economy
Russell Piccione’s eclectic brownstone in Murray Hill is full of the orphaned and particular.
Lis Left Standing
Win or lose, Pete Buttigieg’s senior adviser Lis Smith has turned an unknown mayor into a serious contender.
Redemption Songs
With Rare, Selena Gomez celebrates her newfound peace and independence.
Everybody's Gotta Live
Mac Miller’s posthumous album consolidates his musical identities into a unified whole.
Banning Facial Recognition Isn't Impossible Courage!
OF THE MANY UNSETTLING ASPECTS TO Clearview AI, a shadowy facial-recognition-software company providing users access to a database of 3 billion photographs scraped from social media and YouTube, the one that has most unsettled me is the pervasive sense that there is nothing we can do about it.
Red(neck) Herrings
After four decades and one Pulitzer, A Soldier’s Play comes to Broadway.
Pony Problems
BoJack Horseman’s final season wrestles with guilt and forgiveness.
In Conversation: FRANK GEHRY
Fully engaged and working nonstop as he turns 91, the most famous architect alive won’t take projects in China or Saudi Arabia (“You don’t get paid”) and is reimagining a big chunk of downtown L.A. Is there a school of Gehry now? “God, no.”
Good-bye to Gotham
Alfred Portale’s second act is a neighborhood spot with more modest ambitions and praiseworthy pasta.
From the Cut: The Bohemian
How the designer behind Marni makes fashion fun.
The Voice of a Generation
Michael Barbaro made the New York Times podcast The Daily a raging success. Or is it the other way around?
The Culture Pages – Aidy Bryant – “I'm Not Nice!”
With a second season of Shrill and an eighth of SNL, Aidy Bryant has figured out how to get what she wants.