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?

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

"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...

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

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.

"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...

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-...

"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...

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...

In the latest issue of @nymag.com I wrote about being a parent in the age of Six Seven www.thecut.com/article/what...

This story from the archives on the War at Zabar's is so good: www.grubstreet.com/article/zaba...

my word nymag.com/intelligence...

So many crazy details in Ben Terris's story about Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski, who we can confirm are not only dating but running DHS together: nymag.com/intelligence...

New York magazine asked me to explore Roblox and report back on what the hell is going on in there. I found kids are bombarded with covert ads, casino-style manipulation, and nonstop enticements to spend their parents' money. nymag.com/intelligence...

The final scene in this profile of Vivian Wilson by @brockcolyar.bsky.social is so good! www.thecut.com/article/vivi...

I watched a 65 y/o woman move her whole face for this story 😱 Inside the uncanny world of The Face-Lift Singularity, or, how "undetectable" surgery became undetectable: www.thecut.com/article/unde...

For my first ever byline at @thecut.com I profiled Andrew Garfield about his new role as bad boy/villain in After the Hunt: www.thecut.com/article/andr...

Some terrific writing and reporting here from @reeveswiedeman.bsky.social on the Kennedys as they watch RFK Jr (with Trump's assistance) dismantle their legacy: nymag.com/intelligence...

An excerpt from Giri Nathan's terrific new book up at New York magazine today @girinathan.bsky.social : nymag.com/intelligence...

Nearly every third sentence in this story left me stunned. nymag.com/intelligence...

A Food52 executive stole hundreds of thousands of dollars for luxury clothing and travel. And she put it all on Instagram! www.thecut.com/article/food...

More chaos at the Washington Post, as several newsroom leaders take buyouts and the new Opinion editor seems determined to clean house nymag.com/intelligence...

Well they did it. www.thecut.com/article/mens...

A delightful dispatch from Up North by @svzwood.bsky.social, featuring a whole country raging mad at the people Down South (that's us): nymag.com/intelligence...

"Nearly 70 percent of Democrats now have an unfavorable view of Israel, according to Pew. Yet Democratic officials carry on as if full-throated support for Israel were party doctrine," writes @ryuspaeth.bsky.social. nymag.com/intelligence...

So many great/horrific details in this dispatch from Kyoto by @reeveswiedeman.bsky.social nymag.com/intelligence...

This story names something that had been really bothering me: public opinion, shaped by irrefutable, horrific, daily reporting by people in Gaza, turned against Israeli government years ago. Polls have shown this consistently. Why do Dems ignore their voters on this? nymag.com/intelligence...

Our cover this week is of course Zohran. I wrote about the Democratic Party’s utter inability to reckon with the fact that their voters oppose the war in Gaza nymag.com/intelligence...

The Atlantic — which added ~100,000 new subscribers in the single week after breaking the Signal story — has been on a very expensive hiring spree: nymag.com/intelligence...

Suzy Hansen stares into the abyss. The reckoning we need. nymag.com/intelligence...

"In its annihilative force and ambition, the Israeli campaign is unique among modern conflicts. In fact, the term 'war crime' is not even adequate for what's happening in Gaza." A searing, essential piece by Suzy Hansen:

Alleging Israel has committed ‘war crimes’ suggests a recognizable event: that there is a war happening, and there are some crimes in it. Gaza is different. For our latest cover story, Suzy Hansen examines how the war in Gaza has upended decades of humanitarian law: nymag.com/intelligence...

I am screaming — nymag.com/intelligence...

Under Katie Kingsbury, the New York Times Opinion section has doubled in size — nearly 200 people, bigger than many American newspapers and magazines. What kind of publication is she building? nymag.com/intelligence...

In only two years, ChatGPT and the surge of AI-generated cheating from college students it has created have unraveled the entire academic project.

Jerry Saltz (an AI skeptic) and David Wallace-Wells (AI-curious) discuss the merits of art made by machines.

The West Village has transformed into a fabulous theme park for young women of some privilege to live out their 'Sex and the City' fantasies, posting and spending their mid-20s away. Read @brockcolyar.bsky.social's cover story on the West Village Girl: www.thecut.com/article/nyc-...

Whew.

This is so sad and Ben Terris handles it with fairness and empathy. Having had a stroke, I can say meds and self care is key to a good recovery and a great life. This was also so avoidable and the twisting of Fetterman’s massive political skills is painful to read: nymag.com/intelligence...

‘Fetterman went on to make statements that shocked people. In opposing a cease-fire, he said, “Let’s get back to killing.” A person who heard the conversation told me, “He said, ‘Kill them all.’”’

A must read from Ben Terris, our new Washington correspondent nymag.com/intelligence...

I wrote about what everyone wants to know: What do young men want? nymag.com/intelligence...

An invitation to a Lorne Michaels book event turned into an amazing reply-all disaster, featuring boomer journalists, Tina Fey, Jon Hamm, and Aaron Sorkin: nymag.com/intelligence...

This is not even the best moment in a story full of great moments. But I laugh every time www.vulture.com/article/snl-...

For our latest cover story, @brockcolyar.bsky.social reported on the young, gleeful, confident, and casually cruel Trumpers who, after conquering Washington, have their sights set on the rest of America: nymag.com/intelligence...

I hung out with Chris Hayes for the latest issue of @nymag.com nymag.com/intelligence...

“In a world in which there’s not a lot of chilled shrimp being served to journalists, it’s pretty nice to be able to go to the Century.” nymag.com/intelligence...

“I don’t expect any candidate to check every single box,” said Senator Mark Kelly, retired astronaut and Navy captain who is on the committee. “But he doesn’t seem to check any boxes.”