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The City Politic: David Freedlander
Eric Adams in Isolation The mayor maintains all is well as City Hall becomes a ghost town.

YOU HAVE REACHED THE U.S. GOVERNMENT
You have reached the U.S. government. We are currently unable to answer your call, because everyone has been fired except Bob. If you would like to leave a message, listen carefully, as most of our menu options have been fed into the wood chipper.

WHO KILLED THE FOOTLESS GOOSE?
Thirty-three years ago, Andy was the most famous bird in America.Then he was brutally murdered.

THE SUNKEN PLACE
What secrets lie in the holds of slave ships?

Keuka Lake Joseph O'Neill
Between the ages of fourteen and fifty-four Nadia does not for a single minute not have an admirer or a boyfriend or a better half. Then Drew, her husband, disappears forever.

CATCH ME IF YOU CAN
The many guises of Robert Frost.

Noticing: Emilia Petrarca | Can I Boom Boom?
Falling for, and fretting over, the gilded and greedy new aesthetic.

The Log Cabin No One Wanted
Jake Szymanski grew up in a Colorado log house. He thought he'd never want to live in one again.

WORKS IN PROGRESS
Six actors before opening night.

Closers Only
Bob Odenkirk, Kieran Culkin, and Bill Burr battle for the top of the Glengarry Glen Ross leaderboard.

TRUMP'S PURGE OF WASHINGTON FIVE WEEKS OF CHAOS, IN FOUR PARTS
ON JANUARY 30, Kash Patel, the next director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, went to Capitol Hill to attend to the formality of his Senate confirmation hearing.

GILDED
Plutocrats and anarchists, now and then.

Lululemon and Coconut Cake
Cafe Commerce offers easy uptown glamour, day or night.

Lisa Yuskavage Becomes the Protagonist
After 35 years of painting her signature girls, the artist has decided to turn to a new subject: herself.

When Westerners Go East
Like his characters, Mike White's series cannot seem to shed its core identity or biases.

THE END OF CHILDREN
Birth rates are crashing around the world. What does that mean for our future?

All Bark, No Bite
Idina Menzel grieves in a tree.

TOURIST TRAP
\"The White Lotus,\" on HBO.

'So You All Got the Email...'
At the launch for Susan Morrison's Lorne after a reply-all blizzard.

PORTRAIT OF A MUSKRAT
How a 19-year-old who calls himself Big Balls was empowered to terrorize career civil servants.

Doug Corwin
After an outbreak of bird flu, the duck farmer- Long Island's last was forced to cull his entire flock.

EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT MICROPLASTICS
They're in our blood, our livers, and our brains. They're in newborns and the elderly, urban and rural, rich and poor. What are all these plastics doing to our bodies?

A BELATED DÉBUT
An 1887 opera by the Black composer Edmond Dédé finally appears onstage.

FLIRTING WITH DISASTER
\"Chicken Shop Date\" gives the celebrity interview a screwball spin.

SHADOW WARRIOR
How a career spy helped shape his country's defense against Russia.

Trump vs. the AP: An American Standoff
There's often a deeper meaning to Donald Trump's absurdist comedy, and the president's current dustup with the Associated Press is a case in point.

German Voters Give Merz A Clear Victory
Conservative party's win comes as the far-right AfD ends up a strong second

Jewish Diaspora Hopeful for Syria
Fewer than 10 Jews currently estimated to be living in the battered country

Trump Favors the Bad Neighbors
U.S. officials make nice with dictators while treating Canada as if it were an enemy.

How Trump Embraced Russia
Recent about-face in U.S. foreign policy has been years in the making