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editorial director, new york magazine
âThe hardest part is that people here are still living. Going to work, buying things for Nowruz, breathing this air. Life is continuing. And I donât know if thatâs resilience or if itâs something sadder than that"
nymag.com/intelligence...
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All Modern Warfare Is Chemical Warfare
What we witnessed on Saturday in Tehran may be the largest release of petrochemical toxins over a civilian population since the Iran-Iraq War.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/modern-warfare-is-chemical-warfare.html
11 days ago
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"In Australia, my cousin Ali and his friends were writing screeds against me for not using my platform to back the bombings of Iran. Old friends will no longer speak to me. Some of them I have known my whole life. Some of them, I realize now, I did not know at all."
nymag.com/intelligence...
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Hard Feelings
The Iranian diaspora is fracturing in real time, across dinner tables, on WhatsApp, and in the silence of blocked numbers.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/iranian-diaspora-fights-iran-war.html
18 days ago
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"The fujoshi switch has been flipped, and now everyoneâs fujoing out" â
@alexjung.bsky.social
on Heated Rivalry and girls who love boys who love boys
www.vulture.com/article/heat...
29 days ago
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Bridget Read
about 1 month ago
My first cover story at
@nymag.com
! I went to Utah to figure out how everything got so Mormon:
www.thecut.com/article/morm...
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Do You Have a Moment to Talk About How Mormons Conquered Pop Culture?
How the women of Utah blogged and posted their way into American hearts and wallets.
https://www.thecut.com/article/mormons-pop-culture-secret-lives-bachelorette.html
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âWhen I talk to students, I hear them say things that I can be taken aback by. If the instructorâs body doesnât look a certain way, theyâll say, âWell, I donât want to take class from them'"
@madelesque.bsky.social
on how Pilates culture got so neurotic
www.thecut.com/article/pila...
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Why Pilates Keeps Pissing People Off
The workout has become inseparable from a very strict idea of womanhood.
https://www.thecut.com/article/pilates-reformer-workout-class-rise-toxic-culture.html
about 2 months ago
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"A white man points both his middle fingers and releases a teeth-baring yell, and it seems as if he were drawing a current from the pavement straight out of his mouth"
@kerryhowley.bsky.social
, putting words to feelings like only she can
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about 2 months ago
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Brandy Jensen
2 months ago
this is smart, thorough, and excellent
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Enforcement Regime | Michael Macher
Trump's immigration crackdown marks a dramatic change in the domestic security apparatus, yet its origins lie in a longstanding bipartisan consensus.
https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/enforcement-regime/
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"The agencies themselves laid the groundwork for this project over the previous decades, as they morphed into rogue actors with increasingly radicalized unions"
@michael-macher.bsky.social
on how we got here
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/enf...
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Enforcement Regime | Michael Macher
Trump's immigration crackdown marks a dramatic change in the domestic security apparatus, yet its origins lie in a longstanding bipartisan consensus.
https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/enforcement-regime/
2 months ago
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Michael Macher
2 months ago
I wrote about the longstanding dynamics that produced our terrifying present for
@phenomenalworld.bsky.social
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Enforcement Regime | Michael Macher
Trump's immigration crackdown marks a dramatic change in the domestic security apparatus, yet its origins lie in a longstanding bipartisan consensus.
https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/enforcement-regime
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"Watching the film is an emotionally raw experience. The choice to use Hindâs voice in the film is brilliant and awful. It is so alive it has the effect of pulling you into an immediate present where she could still survive."
www.vulture.com/article/the-...
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âWill You Come and Get Me?â
Inside The Voice of Hind Rajab, the divisive festival hit that reenacts the 5-year-oldâs call to emergency dispatchers in Gaza before she was killed.
https://www.vulture.com/article/the-voice-of-hind-rajab-kaouther-ben-hania.html
3 months ago
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No director working today understands our vigilante-justice fueled moment better than Jafar Panahi, who is captured beautifully by
@roxana-hadadi.bsky.social
in this profile
www.vulture.com/article/jafa...
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Jafar Panahiâs Game of Chicken With the Iranian Regime
In his most defiant film yet, a group of Iranians consider killing the man who tortured them in prison.
https://www.vulture.com/article/jafar-panahi-it-was-just-an-accident-director-profile.html
5 months ago
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jamelle
8 months ago
What I like about this review is Chu very clearly gets bored with Williams and uses his bad book as an opportunity to think through Toqueville and engage with the question of âspeechâ in material terms.
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Angelica Jade Bastién
9 months ago
I wrote about how Brad Pitt has effectively albeit transparently used F1: The Movie and its press tour to rehabilitate his image, in order to obscure the violent allegations about abuse toward Angelina Jolie & his current estrangement from his six kids,
@vulture.com
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www.vulture.com/article/brad...
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Brad Pitt Is Fooling You
The F1 press tour has been a carefully attuned charm offensive meant to obscure Pittâs alleged violent behavior toward ex-wife Angelina Jolie.
https://www.vulture.com/article/brad-pitt-is-fooling-you-f1-angelina-jolie.html
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"âWhy you blocking my sun right now? Iâm trying to bask in a Zohran win.ââ
nymag.com/intelligence...
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âItâs Nice to Be Right!â
The New Yorkers riding the high of Zohran Mamdaniâs win. (And the ones who had no idea there was an election.)
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/zohran-mamdani-win-new-yorkers-reactions.html
9 months ago
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb
9 months ago
IDF soldiers have now themselves admitted they have been ordered to murder aid-seekers in Gaza. Truly an atrocity built on atrocity.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Michael Macher
9 months ago
NYT Editorial Board:
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Megh Wright
10 months ago
three days after I got this assigned (about a musician I love, done by a writer I admire), I experienced a sudden, unexpected, and very close death in my life, so having this piece to work on was kind of like having a grief guide to hang out with :)
www.vulture.com/article/ben-...
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Since Dorian Died
Two years after the death of his son, Ben Kweller doesnât want to waste any more time.
https://www.vulture.com/article/ben-kweller-cover-the-mirrors-profile.html
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Heâs transformed the race with memorable policy proposals and a winning social-media presence. Critics argue heâs drawn to attention-grabbing stunts and that his free bus program may not be the unqualified success he claims it was. E. Alex Jung on Zohran
nymag.com/intelligence...
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Zohran Mamdani Crashes the Party
The mayoral candidate is selling the dream of a socialist New York. The picture inside the Democratic Party is more complicated.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/zohran-mamdani-nyc-mayor-polls-campaign-momentum.html
10 months ago
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Michael Macher
10 months ago
Incredible Eric Adams anecdote from
@nymag.com
's Zohran piece.
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"That is the peril faced by every marginalized writer: He may become so accustomed to the margins he cannot recognize the center even when he is standing in it"
@andrealongchu.bsky.social
on Ocean Vuong
www.vulture.com/article/ocea...
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The Romance of Being Unreadable
In his debut novel, Ocean Vuong took pains to be illegible, then blamed the reader for reading. In his new book, he is finally ready to talk.
https://www.vulture.com/article/ocean-vuong-the-emperor-of-gladness-book-review.html
11 months ago
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"The lowest moment of my life, killing someone, replays several times throughout the 45-minute episode. I can no longer separate these images from my actual memories of what I did that night." a devastating piece, deftly edited by
@tomiobaro.bsky.social
www.vulture.com/article/how-...
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Is True Crime Keeping Me in Prison?
TV producers exploited the worst mistake of my life. Iâm not the only one.
https://www.vulture.com/article/how-true-crime-shows-exploit-incarcerated-people-like-me.html
11 months ago
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no one does it like diane warren
www.vulture.com/article/dian...
11 months ago
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"the US immigration system runs not on the enforcement of immigration laws, but on their selective nonenforcement" â fascinating dive into the contradictions of immigration and labor policy by
@michael-macher.bsky.social
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/wag...
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Wages of Citizenship | Michael Macher
US immigration enforcement and the cannibalization of labor law
https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/wages-of-citizenship/
12 months ago
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Mara Wilson
about 1 year ago
I wrote about my kind, funny childhood friend Michelle Trachtenberg, and the group of friends that saved my life when I was a kid.
www.vulture.com/article/mara...
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My Cool Friend Michelle
Other kids called Trachtenberg a bitch, but in our group of child stars, we all wanted to be like her.
https://www.vulture.com/article/mara-wilson-essay-child-actress-michelle-trachtenberg.html
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"If there is one idea that has unified my thinking as a trans person since I embarked on a career as a writer, it is that we must give up the dream of explaining ourselves"
add a skeleton here at some point
about 1 year ago
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âWe can never tell a guest what they want. It's a matter of listening to them and giving them the illusion of choice.â
www.vulture.com/article/whit...
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At Thailandâs Real White Lotus Hotel, Where the Ultrarich Get Coddled
âSometimes theyâll ask us to bring the sun.â
https://www.vulture.com/article/white-lotus-thailand-hotel-four-seasons-koh-samui.html
about 1 year ago
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"We are living in a city that assumes, requires, and depends on the idea that every salary be augmented by a secret stash of funds"
@madelesque.bsky.social
on how parents money keeps NYC afloat
nymag.com/intelligence...
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How Many Adult New Yorkers Are Secretly Subsidized by Their Parents?
Parents are slowly transferring trillions of dollars to their New York City children, one down payment and Via Carota tab at a time.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/boomer-generation-wealth-nyc-how-do-people-afford-to-live.html
about 1 year ago
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goodbye to all that
nymag.com/intelligence...
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Goodbye, Pamela Paul
The contrarian columnist showed us the intolerable side of liberalism.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/pamela-paul-goodbye-to-the-new-york-times-opinion-columnist.html
about 1 year ago
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lila pearl
about 1 year ago
Scarlett Pavlovich just filed charges in federal court accusing Neil Gaiman of human trafficking -- and sexual abuse, assault, coercion, and rape. Amanda Palmer is named in the complaint as well, for exploiting Scarlett's unpaid labor, and neglecting to warn her about Gaiman.
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Neil Gaiman Accused of Human Trafficking, Sexual Abuse in New Lawsuit
The authorâs estranged wife Amanda Palmer is also named.
https://www.vulture.com/article/neil-gaiman-human-trafficking-amanda-palmer-lawsuit.html
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For our latest cover, a harrowing piece by
@lilashapiro.bsky.social
on the sexual assault allegations against Neil Gaiman
www.vulture.com/article/neil...
about 1 year ago
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alc
about 1 year ago
wrote about dnd
www.vulture.com/article/is-d...
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Why Is âDungeons & Dragonsâ So Misunderstood?
At 50, the game is more popular than ever, but its core appeal is still a great secret.
https://www.vulture.com/article/is-dungeons-and-dragons-fun-game-popularity-misunderstood.html
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In Brian Jordan Alvarezâs beloved YouTube series 'The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo,' he cast his friends in roles based on their real-life romantic entanglements. While reenacting those scenes, one of them alleges he assaulted him.
www.vulture.com/article/bria...
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âAre We Really Friends? Or Are You Just Using Me?â
When Brian Jordan Alvarez made it big with English Teacher, he brought his friends along with him, just like theyâd always dreamed. Except one.
https://www.vulture.com/article/brian-jordan-alvarez-allegations-jon-ebeling-english-teacher.html
over 1 year ago
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