A Word on Seinfeld

The things you notice when you rewatch, rather than cancel, old sitcoms.

Vision 2020: Gabriel Debenedetti

Elizabeth Warren Is Still Campaigning There’s only one person she’s trying to win over, and he’s listening.

Empires: Zak Cheney-Rice

Law and Order and Chaos Trump’s authoritarian theater was just for show, until it wasn’t.

The Family Tugboat

Lyndsay Caleo Karol and Fitzhugh Karol’s getaway boat, Lucy, sleeps eight and is moored at Brooklyn Bridge Park.

The Kanye Cycle

The danger in believing the rapper is serious about anything.

Intelligencer – The Top Line: Josh Barro

Getting Nowhere Economic indicators that recently looked promising are stalling once again.

Sleeping With Andy Warhol

In 1962, a young poet named John Giorno met the Pop Art God, who in turn made him his first superstar. For a little while, they were in love.

Who's Afraid of Ziwe Fumudoh?

For guests who dare to appear on the comedian’s Instagram Live show, the question is not if you are racist, but how.

American Death Cult

Why has the Republican response to the pandemic been so mind-bogglingly disastrous?

47 minutes with …Lauren Underwood

Adventures in remote legislating with the first-term congresswoman from Illinois.

Could New York Be More Like Paris? Should we?

Cityscape: Justin Davidson

A Plague is an Apocalypse But It Can Bring a New World

The meaning of this one is in our hands.

WHAT THE SCIENCE SAYS

Sober, simple, expert advice for managing the risks of COVID-19.

An Apartment Inside a Former Church in Jersey City

A new life under Gothic vaults for designers Paul Melo and Tom Walko.

Two weeks with… Rachel Noerdlinger

From Bill de Blasio’s City Hall to George Floyd’s memorial service.

In Search of Alia SHAWKAT

In the spotlight since childhood— and now, suddenly, really in the spotlight.

Intelligencer – Vision 2020: Gabriel Debenedetti

Biden Is Booming A once unthinkable electoral map comes into focus.

Cop Show Confidential

How does it feel to make police shows in 2020?

Michaela the DESTROYER

How a young talent from East London went from open-mic nights to making the most sublimely unsettling show of the year.

Remembrance: Milton Glaser, 1929–2020

IF THEY’RE TALENTED AND THEY’RE LUCKY, designer-artist-creators get to lob an icon out into the larger culture—the ultrafamiliar shape of Leo Fender’s Stratocaster guitar, say, or Shepard Fairey’s Obama poster. If they’re great, maybe they create two. Milton Glaser, though, operated on another plane—he just kept hitting the bull’s-eye, again and again, throughout his seven decades as an illustrator, graphic designer, art director, and visual philosopher and paterfamilias. He loved New York City and celebrated it in multiple ways: with a magazine, with posters, and (most visibly of all) with the three-letters-and-a-red-heart slogan he created. Almost incidentally, he also changed the way you eat.

THE UNDERGROUND GOURMET - Alternate-Side Dining

With the reopening of New York restaurants, all food is street food.

Peak COMFORT

The triumph of brazenly uncomplicated entertainment.

Cityscape: JUSTIN DAVIDSON - There Are Much Better Ways to House the Old

Why do we Americans sentence ourselves to misery?

41 minutes with … Marc Elias

The Democrats’ top election lawyer warns of a voter-suppression catastrophe in November.

Navigating Hollywood's Creative Police State

Black Lives Matter protests are moving from the streets to the executive suites. This is the story of trying to make my film hashtag—and why I abandoned it in the end.

The City: Pride Was Always a Protest

In a year without a parade, thousands rallied for Black trans lives in Brooklyn.

What Made the Difference?

How one Brooklyn hospital survived its deadliest spring.

The Quiet Storm

Gina Prince-Bythewood’s The Old Guard is an unlikely superhero film, both patient and intimate. But she’s always been uncompromising.

A Former Garage in Hudson

When the onetime East Village antiques dealer John Eaton returned after a year in Paris, he decided to settle in an industrial space upstate.

Boss of the Beach

For 40 years, the city’s LIFEGUARD CORPS has been mired in controversy—falsified drowning reports, sexual-assault allegations, drugs, and alcohol—and for 40 years it’s been run by one man: PETER STEIN.