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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.
Still Gazing in Awe at Jude Law
The 47-year-old actor has played with beauty throughout his career. But it’s never been more chilling than on HBO’s The New Pope.
Republicans Don't Even Know What They're Covering Up
But the latest revelations are explosive.
Peter Thiel's Latest Venture Is the American Government
How the VC learned to love Big Brother.
Medea in Brooklyn
Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale would like you to please refer to them as “lovers.” Right now, they’re co-starring in an avant-garde take on a Greek tragedy at BAM.
Cityscape: Justin Davidson
Bad Planning The mid-century misfire that was “slum clearance” tore down much more than tenements.
AOC – One Year In
She reshaped her party’s legislative agenda, resuscitated Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign, and hardly has a friend in Washington.
Sushi For The People
Nami Nori is cheap, delicious, and made for millennials.
100 Women. One Trial.
After a flood of allegations that launched a movement, Harvey Weinstein will finally face rape and sexual-assault charges. But nothing in the case has been simple.
This Is How We Live
A year’s diary of climate reckoning, conversation by conversation.
157 minutes with… Rudy Giuliani
What’s better than texting with Trump’s personal attorney? Bloody Marys.
The Undersung
Our critics on seven great artists who might’ve been lost to the canon.
CRITICS
Helen Shaw on Hamilton and The Book of Mormon … Craig Jenkins on Fine Line … David Edelstein on Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.
Business: Marisa Meltzer
The Ladies Who Launch Lingua Franca and the rise of the resistance socialite.
How Low Will Democrats Go?
In a world of fake news and dank memes, this means they’re no longer very good at the internet.
Yurt Life
Sleeping in the wilds of a Bed-Stuy backyard gets analog-camera guru Kyle Depew into nature. (It saves on rent, too.)
180 minutes with… Bobbi Salvör Menuez
Serving up cucumber ball gags at the model-actor-artist-cook’s conceptual dinner series.
Where's the Party?: Allison P. Davis
Adventures in Liquid Shopping Did you know you can get plastered at Nordstrom?
THIS IS AMERICA
Eleven years after the election of the first black president, and three years into Trump’s reactionary rise to power, it is no longer possible to ignore the pervasive threat of domestic terrorism.
What Should Your Kids Be Watching?
The streaming wars are coming for children, which means more minefields—and more excellent television.
The National Interest: Jonathan Chait
Donald Trump’s War on Journalism His attack on Amazon may be his most egregious abuse of power yet.
Movies / Everybody's Fine
In A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Mister Rogers saves a journalist’s soul (and maybe yours).
Doing Diplo
The DJ-mogul-cowboy-dad is all grown up and ready to party.