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Rachel Lindsay Has No Roses Left to Burn
When I became The Bachelor’s first Black lead, I thought I could change it from within. Until I realized I was just their token.
2021 New York City mayoral election – Rank Me
Fifteen candidates for mayor, each selling a different vision of the city. Choose your top five.
The Man In Trouble
Comedian Tim Robinson can’t resist playing characters who make him wince.
The Next Course
Nearly two decades after influential pastry chef Claudia Fleming left Gramercy Tavern, she returns to Danny Meyer’s restaurant group in a new role.
The Group Portrait: Back on the Decks
The crew of DJs behind the best parties in Brooklyn this summer.
The National Interest: Jonathan Chait
Save the Union by Enlarging It. Hoping to win by coupproof margins is not a strategy.
SINGING MORMONS (NO, NOT THOSE SINGING MORMONS)
Schmigadoon!’s send-up of musical theater is both wholesome and really, really funny.
The Shared Pleasures of Plutocratville
Little Island is a billionaire’s gift to the public; the supertall 111 West 57th is what the ruling class builds for itself. I [whispers] love them both.
The Real Zola
Five years after she lit up Twitter with her tale of a strip-club road trip gone awry, A’Ziah King’s story has become a big buzzy movie. Now she’s ready to make it her own again.
The Tiger Mom and The Hornet's Nest
For two decades, Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld were Yale Law power brokers. A new generation wants to see them exiled.
The Return Of Night Life
Out All Night With Remy Duran
The Return Of Everything – The Return of FOMO
The pandemic forced us to simplify our lives and look inward. Now it’s time to have fun again. That should be easy, right?
You Get Back Up
A posthumous album from DMX that feels like it was meant to be the start of something.
Tomorrow: David Wallace-Wells
The Invisible Dead As the U.S. vaccinates, the pandemic enters its colonial phase.
Movements: The GOP can win without waging war on democracy
The Big Rig Why are Texas Republicans subverting democracy in a state they already dominate?
Michelle Zauner's Incredible Spring
The Japanese Breakfast frontwoman became a best-selling author with a memoir centered on the loss of her mother. Now it’s time for her dance album.
The Room Where It Happened
Derrick Ingramam is still shut inside the hell’s kitchen apartment the police tried to invade.
The Group Portrait: The Audience Is a Little Quiet
An ensemble from the New York Philharmonic plays Green-Wood Cemetery.
Stop Hustling Black Death
Samaria Rice is the mother of Tamir, not a “mother of the movement.”
Sleater-Kinney – ‘The Role of the Artist Is to Thrash Around'
Sleater-Kinney recommits.
Barbara Jakobson Thinks of Her Art-Filled Townhouse As Her Autobiography
She’s lived here since 1965 and now gets up and down its five floors on her spiffy new stair-climbing “worm.”
Doing the Work at Work
What are companies desperate for diversity consultants actually buying?
102 Minutes With… Aida Turturro
The Sopranos star finds her second calling on Cameo.
The City Politic
The Endorsed The Times vaulted Kathryn Garcia from mayoral long shot to … maybe … plausible?
Power
Biden confronts his first foreign crisis
His Name in Vain
We can choose to be sated by more cops in jail. Or we can insist that bargaining for mere survival is not enough.
Science of Us: Katie Heaney
The Clock-Out Cure – For those who can afford it, quitting has become the ultimate form of self-care.
Tech vs. Journalism
Silicon Valley feels picked on by “woke” journalists “who can't code." Reporters feel picked on by petty zillionaires with anger-management problems. Inside the nasty clout battle for how the world’s most influential industry gets covered.
You'd Be an Iconic Guest
A ruthless Instagram interviewer brings her knowing wink to cable.
Andrew Yang's Insider Campaign
How did a former CEO of 100 employees become the front-runner to govern a city of 8.5 million? Not simply by being a national celebrity and an excellent campaigner.