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Mamdani Has a Point About Rent Control

November 2, 2025

Illustration showing Zohran Mamdani in front of row of houses

Patti Smith’s Family Secrets

Amy Weiss-Meyer

December 2025 Issue

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Sports Can’t Survive Prop Bets

Keith O’Brien

October 24, 2025

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Trump’s Partisan Redistribution of Wealth

October 23, 2025

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Why I Run

Nicholas Thompson

December 2025 Issue

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Why the ‘No Kings’ Protest Moved Me

October 20, 2025

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The Risk of Financial—And Moral—Collapse

October 20, 2025

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The Depth of MAGA’s Moral Collapse

October 17, 2025

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American Infrastructure Is About to Get Even Worse

Marc J. Dunkelman

October 17, 2025

Illustration of Donald Trump

Stop Lowering the Flag

October 13, 2025

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Book Recommendations

Eight Romance Novels for Romance Skeptics

Karen Ostergren

October 13, 2025

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The Rabbi Who Negotiated With the Terrorist

Angela Buchdahl

October 12, 2025

a photo of a synagogue and the author with her family

Wake Up, Rip Van Winkle

November 2025 Issue

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The Black Loyalists

November 2025 Issue

illustration of the flag of Great Britain waving with large white letters painted on it: LIBERTY FOR SLAVES

What We Learned Filming The American Revolution

Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, and David Schmidt

November 2025 Issue

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The Most Reviled Tech CEO in New York Confronts His Haters

October 6, 2025

A man with curly hair stands in front of a billboard at a subway station.

The One Big Change SNL Is Making

October 1, 2025

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Golf’s Very Loud Weekend

September 26, 2025

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New York NIMBYs Turn Against Democracy

September 9, 2025

Brooklyn, circa 1978

What Lisette Model Saw in Jazz

David A. Graham

October 2025 Issue

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The ‘Remarkable Ability’ Many Dissidents Share

September 5, 2025

A black-and-white photo of protesters crowded under and on top of a bridge in Georgia.

I’m a High Schooler. AI Is Demolishing My Education.

Ashanty Rosario

September 3, 2025

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The Wrong Way to Win Back the Working Class

September 3, 2025

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What We Lose by Distorting the Mission of the National Guard

Christopher Purdy

August 31, 2025

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Austin Butler Is Too Charming for This

August 29, 2025

Caught Stealing

The Real Reason American Socialists Don’t Win

August 24, 2025

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The Meadowlands Ideal

August 22, 2025

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The Mainstreaming of Zohran Mamdani

August 18, 2025

Trump Gains When Elites Downplay D.C. Crime

August 15, 2025

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Lights Out, With a Whimper

August 15, 2025

Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie Bradshaw on ‘And Just Like That’

Resist the Snark and Be Happy

Arthur C. Brooks

August 7, 2025

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How Democrats Tied Their Own Hands on Redistricting

August 6, 2025

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The Dangerous Logic of CTE Self-Diagnosis

July 29, 2025

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Trump Is Making Socialism Great Again

July 27, 2025

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A Love Letter to Music Listings

July 27, 2025

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A Requiem for Puff Daddy

Thomas Chatterton Williams

July 26, 2025

Collage of torn images of Puff Daddy