The City Politic: David Freedlander

Bill de Blasio Did What New Yorkers Wanted So why does he leave office so unpopular?

Extremely Online: Sophie Haigney

The Tabular Self I saw the best minds of my generation being uploaded onto “second-brain” apps.

Because Our Underworld Is World Class

Samuel Fuller (1912–1997) became a newspaper copy boy when he was just 12. By the time he was 17, he was working the murder beat for the New York Evening Graphic, a tabloid so lurid it was known as the New York Pornographic. Fuller knew a good lede when he saw one.

Stephen Sondheim – A Giant in the Sky

The measureless, omnipresent influence of Stephen Sondheim.

Caring Too Much

In Sort Of, Bilal Baig plays a caretaker still learning to love themselves.

Because Not All DISASTER MOVIES CONTAIN EXPLOSIONS

Ciao! Manhattan set out to capture Warhol’s New York underground and instead became a symbol of its demise.

A Very Modern Life in a Very Old Stone House

Peter Speliopoulos and Robert Turner bought the 1720s Hudson Valley house and took their time with it

The Body Politic

The Betrayal of Roe Decades of neglect have brought abortion rights to the precipice.

BECAUSE NEW YORK MAKES THE MOVIES AND THE MOVIES MAKE NEW YORK

OSCAR SEASON IN NEW YORK is always packed with sentimental movie galas, but it’s safe to say the November premiere of Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story was more emotional than most.

Losing a Teenage Dream

Before I came to Hollywood, I was confidently queer. Years of mixed messages in the industry changed that.

Tomorrow

Waiting for Omicron The new COVID-19 variant is here. Are we prepared for it?

Bad Bunny Off Cycle

Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio turned 27 this year. It’s been a time for introspection.

Kathy Hochul's Got Seven Months

To govern. To campaign. And to tell New Yorkers what, if anything, she believes in.

80 Minutes With… Dasha Nekrasova

The podcast provocateur is on Succession and made a horror movie about Jeffrey Epstein. Are her days of niche fame over?

Biden in Free Fall

Progressive donors to the left of him, cynical centrists to the right— a unified theory of why his popular agenda is so unpopular.

A Normie's Guide to Becoming a Crypto Person

How to (cautiously and skeptically) fall down the rabbit hole.

You Don't Cancel Me. I Cancel You.

On the precipice of sports-gambling riches— and facing sexual-misconduct allegations—Barstool Sports’ Dave Portnoy doubles down on the culture war.

The Money Game: Jen Wieczner

Revolt of the Goldman Juniors Wall Street’s youngest want more cash and better conditions. But mostly cash.

Climate Reparations

A trillion tons of carbon hang in the air, put there by the world’s rich— an existential threat to its poor. Can we remove it?

Lindsey Buckingham Thinks He Did Something Right

IT HAS LONG BEEN Theorized that it takes two guitarists to equal one Lindsey Buckingham, which was proved back in 2018 when the fingerpicking deity was unceremoniously fired from Fleetwood Mac and had to be replaced with a duo of rock elders for the band’s following tour.

Pivot: Scott Galloway

Super-Apps Are Inevitable Get ready for the first $10 trillion tech company.

The Group Portrait: Hello, Old Friend

The 3rd Rock From the Sun cast tearily reunites for the first time in 20 years.

The System: Eric Levitz

Kill or Be Killed The Hobbesian logic of Kyle Rittenhouse’s acquittal.

The Group Portrait: They Won

The hunger-striking taxi drivers who claimed victory.

Simon Rex Doesn't Want to Be THAT Guy Anymore

The former MTV VJ partied his way through the early aughts, lost his career for a decade, and now, improbably, is being celebrated by the Hollywood elite.

‘The Depth Is in the Pictures'

Photographer Rosalind Fox Solomon has more stories to tell than she lets on.

147 minutes with …Huma Abedin

Throughout a public career and marriage, the political confidante has remained poised and silent. She’s ready to change that.

Fresh Meat

British import Hawksmoor is a steakhouse where you can order the fish.

Peter Gelb – The Divo

All of Peter Gelb’s big problems running the Metropolitan Opera only got bigger during the pandemic.

Rebecca Ferguson – The Real Star of Dune

Rebecca Ferguson plays the intimidating Lady Jessica in the sci-fi epic. She’s much friendlier in person.