
The plot against Zohran Mamdani
Newspapers and billionaires are out to get the socialist who could be New York’s mayor.
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Newspapers and billionaires are out to get the socialist who could be New York’s mayor.
ByIn the Democratic New York mayoral candidate, left-populism has found its tribune.
ByHer public persona is one of a starlet propped up by a Warholian cabal.
ByGay Talese published a candid account of his infidelities in 1980. His marriage survived; his career almost didn’t.
ByThe New York mayor’s behaviour shows how questions of right and wrong have devolved into whatever people can get away…
ByOn all sides the urban machine is operating at full tilt, churning out volcanic volumes of steam and fumes.
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ByHow New York City's mayor embraced the incoming president.
ByI told myself I wouldn’t be as shocked and disappointed as I was in 2016. But I was. Also this…
ByThe film stars former inmates playing themselves as they stage a performance on the inside.
ByJewish masculinity and the New York Intellectuals.
ByIt sounds absurd, but this series featuring Benedict Cumberbatch, a missing child and a huge furry puppet is the best…
ByAlso this week: medieval epidemiology, and the scourge of child sex abuse.
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ByAlice Robb’s Don’t Think Dear reveals how the elite world of dance exerts a terrible physical and mental toll.
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ByThis series belongs to a new big-budget genre of TV that attempts to intellectually flatter viewers who can actually afford…
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