I wrote about the aid flotillas that spent all spring and summer trying to reach Gaza — and what happened when their participants were thrown in Israeli jail @nymag.com nymag.com/intelligence...

The Flotillas Trying to Reach Gaza

High-sea solidarity missions have a long history in Palestine. They’ve always been more than a stunt.

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"I remember the first time The New Yorker told me I had to do all the reporting on one trip. I felt, 'Oh, this is NOT the way I like to do business.'” I profiled Susan Orlean @nymag.com www.vulture.com/article/susa...

Susan Orlean Knows She’s Had a Charmed Career

But the longtime New Yorker writer doesn’t want to dwell on journalism’s bygone days.

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I profiled the artist Coco Fusco, whose survey show at El Museo del Barrio opens today and who told me, "The idea that my professional life has been a joyride is so far from the truth" www.vulture.com/article/arti...

Coco Fusco Refuses to Be Pigeonholed

The artist gets her first U.S. survey after years of creating work that defies political orthodoxy.

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A lot of lawyers have told me they were shocked when the Manhattan DA brought terrorism charges against Luigi Mangione. Today, a judge threw those charges out! I wrote @nymag.com nymag.com/intelligence...

Luigi Mangione Wins a Major Victory in Court

Prosecutors accused him of terrorism, but a judge said the charge doesn’t fit the evidence and dismissed it.

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i profiled the new york teen who's so nichely tiktok-famous with local middle school girls that they line up at her place of work to get a photo with her www.thecut.com/article/alle...

The Most Popular Girl in Soho Is a Brandy Melville Employee

Why tourists line up to watch 17-year-old Allegra Pinkowitz fold baby tees.

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"There was a student who was debating between my school or an institution in Hong Kong. I gave her the advice to come to my school. Now I’m not sure if that was the best solution." Interviewed a Chinese student about living thru US visa chaos @nymag.com nymag.com/intelligence...

What It’s Like to be a Chinese Student on a Visa Right Now

A Ph.D. candidate in the U.S. on skipping conferences, getting an emergency travel visa to Canada, and looking for jobs in another country.

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I wrote about Caught by the Tides, the truly amazing film that Jia Zhangke made out of B-roll wow PS I love Zhao Tao www.vulture.com/article/revi...

Caught by the Tides Is an Epic Built From Scraps

Jia Zhangke’s odyssey through 21st-century China is mostly footage shot during the production of other films. The result is staggering.

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I wrote about Lucien Smith, the artist and soon-to-be restaurateur who says Dimes Square is his Soho in the '70s @nymag.com www.grubstreet.com/article/luci...

Lucien Smith Gets a Job

He was an up-and-coming art star — until he quit his galleries. Now he’s reviving the legendary Soho artists restaurant Food.

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Luigi Mangione is set to be arraigned in federal court today and prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. I wrote about Trump's love of executions and the obsessive, cruel, wildly expensive pursuit of capital punishment @nymag.com nymag.com/intelligence...

Trump Wants to Execute People Again — Starting With Luigi Mangione

He executed more people in a single term than any president since the 1890s. Now he wants Mangione on death row.

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It’s getting real y’all. 97% of New York Magazine Union members just signed a pledge to walk out of work if we don’t get a fair contract from Vox Media. If you love @nymag.com and the work we do, sign our solidarity pledge to support us in the event of a walkout: nymagunion.org/reader-pledge

5,000 @nymag.com readers & counting have told Vox Media they plan to stand with @nymagunion.bsky.social if we walk out. Tomorrow we're back in bargaining. The time for a fair deal is now. If you haven’t signed, tell Vox you support New York’s 150 union members: nymagunion.org/reader-pledge

If you love @NYMag and the work that @nymagunion.bsky.social does to make it, join our friends like Julia Fox, Anna Delvey & John Early and add your name to our pledge to support us in the event of a walkout: nymagunion.org/reader-pledge

Despite our willingness to compromise, management has rejected our sensible proposals again and again. Enough is enough. 97% of our members have signed onto a pledge to do whatever it takes to get a deal, including a potential work stoppage.

I profiled Maryam Nassirzadeh and tried to answer the one question everybody asked me www.thecut.com/article/mary...

How Does Maryam Nassir Zadeh Stay in Business?

The brand once defined how downtown girls wanted to dress. Now it’s a mystery how it survives at all.

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We’re ready for @nymag.com management to come to the table with compensation that reflects the cost of living, relief for our overworked members, and AI job protections. A better future in media is possible!

What the @nymagunion.bsky.social really thinks about our company’s desire to potentially replace us with AI (TLDR, it’s not great):

Media Workers Tell All! What the @nymagunion.bsky.social wants to tell their bosses:

We also asked @nymagunion.bsky.social members what they thought about the media elite calling them “soft”:

As @nymagunion.bsky.social negotiates our 2nd contract, we asked our members about the most pressing issues still on the table, like what makes them lose sleep:

Remember in October when @nymag.com published its annual Power Issue with members of the “media elite?" Well, @nymagunion.bsky.social thought you might want to hear from media workers themselves. Introducing our union Power Issue: MEDIA WORKERS TELL ALL!