In an economic environment in which the nature of work feels as if it’s about to change forever, we set out to survey New Yorkers about their paychecks. For our latest Cover Story, 60 people share how much they made last year: tinyurl.com/4re2kejx
When I was in the inside, @charlottetklein.bsky.social’s coverage of WaPo was always the best-sourced and most accurate. Now that I’m on the outside, I trust this more than anything else. nymag.com/intelligence...
How an Embittered Brit Decimated the Washington Post
Inside Will Lewis’s disastrous attempts to revitalize the paper.
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“He had two settings: charming Brit and asshole Brit. And he quickly moved into the latter category." @charlottetklein.bsky.social with the essential deep dive on how Will Lewis gutted the Post: nymag.com/intelligence...
How an Embittered Brit Decimated the Washington Post
Inside Will Lewis’s disastrous attempts to revitalize the paper.
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Cannot believe that I got to profile an extraordinary filmmaker, who happens to be the mother of NYC’s new mayor, and think about intersections of art and politics, and how familial love might produce a buffer against the corrosive politics and cynicism of our time. My story about Mira Nair:
What Mira Nair Taught Zohran Mamdani
The mayor’s famous filmmaker mother reveals the origins of his ferocious ambition.
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A terrific profile of Mira Nair by @rtraister.bsky.social that sheds so much light on Zohran's upbringing, including his more-fraught-than-previously-known college admissions process www.vulture.com/article/what...
If you can't stop searching through the Epstein files, this one is for you: nymag.com/intelligence...
How the Epstein Files Turned Everyone Into Conspiracists
It turns out we really are governed by an overclass of degenerate elites. And now anyone can investigate them.
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“Look, when I worked for her, our poor scheduler was getting calls at two o’clock in the morning to come bring her bottles of tequila,”a former staffer claimed of incidents they recalled going back to 2021. nymag.com/intelligence...
Nancy Mace Is Not Okay
“Something’s broken. The motherboard’s fried. We’re short-circuiting somewhere.”
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“What’s the plan after this?” a former Post reporter wondered. “You cut however many hundreds of people to solve the fact that you’re still losing lots of money. Then what?” nymag.com/intelligence...
Inside the Washington Post’s Existential Meltdown
“There’s no vision for why it should exist.”
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I wrote about one of my favorite directors and his recent run of poor form: www.vulture.com/article/noah...
Did Success Spoil Noah Baumbach?
The director is at his best when he’s depicting men who resent the world for not recognizing their genius.
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A truly remarkable window into an American presidency: nymag.com/intelligence...
‘The Superhuman President’
A good-faith attempt to ascertain the truth about Donald Trump’s health.
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“The Groypers are, you know, I mean, they’re a lot like me" — just one of many college conservatives @svzwood.bsky.social interviewed in this eye-opening tour of the post-Charlie Kirk world: nymag.com/intelligence...
The Takeover of Kirk Country
How the dark forces of conspiracism remade MAGA’s youth movement.
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Great entertainment from start to finish in this portrait of a family with severe daddy issues, by @reeveswiedeman.bsky.social www.vulture.com/article/larr...
The Son King of Hollywood
With help from his billionaire father, Larry, David Ellison is trying to become the biggest studio mogul in history.
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Zohran Mamdani is a brilliant political talent with dizzying ambitions to change New York City as its new mayor. Is he ready for the actual job, though?
The Making of Mayor Mamdani
Zohran Mamdani is a brilliant political talent with dizzying ambitions to change New York City as its new mayor. Is he ready for the actual job, though?
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if you were an okay hang with an ivy league degree in LA in the past decade you could get in a room for a "funny" netflix adult animated show about trauma and healing or whatever. if you were a GREAT hang with an ivy league degree in LA you could get david ellison to buy your substack for $150m
Bari Weiss in Wonderland
Her exile in Hollywood paved the way for a triumphant return to New York.
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"Chris Pine is there, and Bob Iger is there, and all of these A-list writers who’ve won Oscars. And all anyone wants to do is talk to Bari Weiss." @charlottetklein.bsky.social on Bari Weiss's Hollywood-fueled comeback: nymag.com/intelligence...
Bari Weiss In Wonderland
Her exile in Hollywood paved the way for a triumphant return to New York.
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Here’s to never knowing who you'll run into on the subway — and to #ReasonstoLoveNewYork, our 21st annual reminder of why (rent hikes, rat kings, and all) we wouldn’t want to live anywhere else. www.curbed.com/article/reas...
I spent sixteen months reporting this story. It follows how surveillance tech is rewriting Gaza in real time — and what it’s doing to the people inside it. Reported in partnership with @justvision.org's Palestine Reporting Lab and published in @nymag.com
Watched, Tracked, and Targeted in Gaza
Life under Israel’s all-encompassing surveillance regime.
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Elder millennials have gotten away with seeming young for a long time, but research shows that aging catches up with us at distinct moments — the first comes at 44.
Falling Off the Aging Cliff at 44
Elder millennials have gotten away with seeming young for a long time, but research shows that aging catches up with us at distinct moments — the first comes at 44.
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"This is the dystopian consequence of technology, supplied in part by American companies, being placed into the hands of authorities who have virtually unlimited control over a captive population they have openly villainized." By @mohamhawish.bsky.social in @nymag.com nymag.com/intelligence...
Watched, Tracked, and Targeted in Gaza
Life under Israel’s all-encompassing surveillance regime.
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Wrote about the backlash to the backlash to the backlash to the backlash there are no waves we are swimming through circular currents and why we’re not on the Faludi style backlash of the right (& center and left’s) dreams: www.thecut.com/article/why-...
Me Too Forever
Why the backlash was so short-lived.
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"Readers will recognize in this version of Epstein not the sociopathic blackmail artist he is rumored to have been but a more quotidian figure: the nerd whom other nerds regard as cool." nymag.com/intelligence...
Jeffrey Epstein, King of the Dweebs
Why did so many powerful nerds see the pedophile financier as cool?
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The @nymag.com annual Power Issue is devoted to the Democrats, who, yes, do not have much power at all, but that's what makes them so interesting! Everything is up for grabs. First up is Simon van Zuylen-Wood on the Bernie Bros v the Abundance Bros: nymag.com/intelligence...
Socialism or Abundance?
Two visions fight for the Democratic Party’s soul as it searches for purpose, direction, and a modicum of popularity.
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In the latest issue of @nymag.com I wrote about being a parent in the age of Six Seven www.thecut.com/article/what...
The ‘Six Seven’ Panic
Adolescent slang has always been impenetrable to adults. That’s the point.
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This story from the archives on the War at Zabar's is so good: www.grubstreet.com/article/zaba...
The War at Zabar’s
Can three feuding partners ruin the world’s greatest deli?
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