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NEWYORK, TIMES CHANGES
For the sake of the country—and the business model—the New York Times evolved during the Trump years: less dispassionate, more crusading. This has sparked a raw internal debate over the paper’s mission and future.
Last Days
Inside the White House as inevitability—and anger—set in.
Greenpoint's Greenest Building
The new public library cost a lot, and it may have been worth it.
Elvis Costello – This Year's Model
Elvis Costello is back with his 31st (or so) studio album. But don’t look for any consolation from him.
Ernesto's Interregnum
Between our critic’s first and last visits to the Basque-inspired taverna, not much (and everything) has changed.
The World's Best Bureaucrat
As chairman of the Federal Reserve during the global pandemic, Jerome Powell has managed to do something almost unimaginable in Washington: a good job.
Movies Were Better When Whoopi Was in Them
The actress has already achieved EGOT status. Now, finally, she’s a Master of Culture.
Nerding Out With David Fincher
The director talks about the decades-long journey behind Mank, his dense, bitter look at Hollywood history, political power, and the creative act.
Enablement
The torture self justification of one very powerful Trump loathing anonymous republican.
Wide Awake
The past four years have seen the birth of a modern progressive movement so vast and energetic it just might be equal to the right-wing forces that threaten its extinction.
TRUMP INTERNATIONAL HOTEL WINNERS
Fifty-one insiders who profited off the Trump presidency. A collaboration with WNYC’s Trump, Inc. podcast.
The System: Zak Cheney-Rice
White Houses Two visions of the suburbs are on the ballot. Both are myths.
The National Interest: Jonathan Chait
The Off-Ramp From Authoritarianism What an election can and can’t save.
Reopenings – Midtown As Microcosm
When it’s back, the city will be too.
When Nimby Met Maga
Liberals on the Upper West Side wanted to oust hundreds of homeless men from a local hotel. Then Tucker Carlson took up their cause.
Meanwhile, in Another World
How a Nicole Kidman–Hugh Grant drama series wound up becoming an inadvertent time capsule.
The National Interest: Good Genes
The president’s lifelong obsession with his superior DNA is put to the test.
The Writer's Room: I Couldn't Make This Stuff Up
The creator of ‘The Death of Stalin’ and ‘Veep’ on a week that surpassed satire.
Reality TV Glows Up
Docuseries are television’s latest prestige offering, but they’re not so different from their trashier predecessors.
Angry Bird
The story of John Brown, told with righteous fury.
Sohla El-Waylly, Food Wizard
After leaving Bon Appétit’s Test Kitchen, the chef now has her own show—where she’s paid fairly for her fantastic creations.
THE SWAMP: The Entire Presidency Is a Superspreading Event
Down in the polls, high on steroids, and clinging to good health while endangering everyone else’s.
THE CITY'S PERMANENT GOVERNMENT” HAS ALWAYS BUILT ITS WAY OUT OF CRISIS. BUT WHAT IF IT CAN'T?
The Panic Attack of the Power Brokers
Injured?
Bruised egos, gobs of money, and the bitter feud that took down CELLI NO & BARNES, New York’s absurdly ubiquitous accident law firm.
Rumaan Alam – Delusions of Whiteness
In Rumaan Alam’s new thriller, a white family staying at a Hamptons Airbnb is startled when the Black owners knock on the door.
Dispatches - Returning to Restaurants
Our critic, fresh off hiatus, surveys the state of his neighborhood.
Lock Him Up?
For the Republic to survive Trump’s presidency, he must be tried for his crimes. Even if that sparks a constitutional crisis of its own.
Buying Myself Back
When does a model own her own image?
Girl Power, Inc.
Disney’s live-action Mulan loses the songs but amps up the corporate nationalism.
166 minutes with… Ben Smith
Starting trouble with the New York Times media columnist.