New York Magazine

So You Want to Be a U.S. Senator?

Georgia governor Brian Kemp has thrown open the door to anybody who wants to apply to fill the seat Johnny Isakson is giving up at year’s end.
Nancy Pelosi’s Drug Plan Pits Trump’s Base Against GOP Orthodoxy

Price controls on prescription drugs are deeply popular with the GOP’s aging base — and deeply antithetical to GOP lawmakers’ ideology.
Brad Pitt Talks About Confronting Harvey Weinstein

After Weinsten allegedly harassed Pitt’s then-girlfriend, Gwyneth Paltrow, in a hotel room.
It’s Official: Trump Revokes California’s Power to Regulate Automobile Emissions

It’s a sign of the administration’s adamant opposition to action on climate change, even at the expense of conservative states-rights principles.
Benjamin Netanyahu Appears to Be Running Out of Options

Though he should never be counted out, it’s increasingly difficult to imagine that the prime minister will retain power in Israel.
Thousands of Students Are Protesting Climate Change Tomorrow. Here’s How to Help

Tomorrow, thousands of young people across the world will skip school to demand immediate action on the climate crisis.
No One Knows Whether Warren or Sanders Is in Second Place

Recent polls from the first primary states show that Bernie Sanders is pulling even with Biden — or else plummeting out of contention.
Andrew Yang Pledges to Continue Making Asian Jokes

Despite criticism of his one-liners, Yang says he doesn’t plan to change anything about what he’s doing.
Justin Trudeau Wore Brownface Makeup to a Private-School Party in 2001

A yearbook photo shows the Canadian PM in brownface and a turban at an ‘Arabian Nights’ party. He “recognize[s] it was something racist to do.”
White House Circulating Gun Proposal That Trump May Not Support

The NRA is already denouncing the gun background-check bill that nobody in the Trump administration will openly embrace.
Teen Climate Activists Make Congress Look Like Incompetent Children

“I don’t want you to listen to me. I want you to listen to science, and then act.”
Jimmy Carter Saw a UFO On This Day in 1973

Carter promised to come clean on UFO intel if elected president, but like all of them, he backtracked.
John Bolton Is Mad at Trump for Firing Him Just Before Iran Standoff

You can’t always get what you want.
How Elizabeth Warren Should Talk About Medicare for All

A populist like her should show some empathy for those who fear big government and politicians as much as they fear insurance and drug companies.
Decoding the Fed’s Interest Rate Cut

Intelligencer staffers discuss the Federal Reserve’s latest maneuver — and President Trump’s criticism of it.
Will Andrew Yang’s Meeting With Shane Gillis Demand Anything From White Voters?

Forgiving racists is easy in American politics. Demanding better from them is not.
Democratic Donor Ed Buck Arrested After Third Suspicious OD

Prosecutors accuse Buck of manipulating victims into taking huge doses of meth. Since 2017, two men have died in his L.A. home from overdoses.
Trump Hesitates on Iran Strike, As His Administration Draws Up Plans

The administration is reportedly considering cyber attacks and potential sites for retaliation, even as Trump is still wishy-washy on the idea.
Please, No Lectures on Fidelity to the Constitution From Josh Hawley

The Republican senator’s idea of the constitution is strictly as a vehicle for the authoritarian cultural order he prefers.
The Wildest Moments From Corey Lewandowski’s House Testimony

The Trump loyalist and Senate hopeful turned in an openly hostile performance that seemed designed to please the president.

5:57 P.M. Trump Trolls Homeless People in California As he rolled through California collecting campaign contributions, the president blamed Democrats for homelessness, and the homeless for pollution.
5:19 P.M. So You Want to Be a U.S. Senator? Georgia governor Brian Kemp has thrown open the door to anybody who wants to apply to fill the seat Johnny Isakson is giving up at year’s end.
4:16 P.M. Pelosi’s Drug Plan Pits Trump’s Base Against GOP Orthodoxy Price controls on prescription drugs are deeply popular with the GOP’s aging base — and deeply antithetical to GOP lawmakers’ ideology.
4:04 P.M. Trump Revokes California’s Power to Regulate Auto Emissions It’s a sign of the administration’s adamant opposition to action on climate change, even at the expense of conservative states-rights principles.
3:46 P.M. Elizabeth Warren’s Balancing Act Warren’s avoiding Clinton’s biggest mistakes, but her path to the nomination is still difficult.
1:35 P.M. Trump Loyalists Aren’t Being Ostracized — They’re Thriving Sean Spicer, Kierstjen Nielsen, and Corey Lewandowski all made dramatic public comebacks this week.
1:23 P.M. Benjamin Netanyahu Appears to Be Running Out of Options Though he should never be counted out, it’s increasingly difficult to imagine that the prime minister will retain power in Israel.
12:06 P.M. No One Knows Whether Warren or Sanders Is in Second Place Recent polls from the first primary states show that Bernie Sanders is pulling even with Biden — or else plummeting out of contention.
12:02 P.M. Chris Hayes and Ali Velshi on How TV News Covers Climate A conversation with the hosts of MSNBC’s two-day Democratic-primary forum on climate change.
12:00 P.M. VSCO CEO Reacts to Summer’s Biggest Meme, the ‘VSCO Girl’ “A VSCO girl doesn’t define everyone on VSCO. Yeah, it defines a group that’s there, for sure, but there’s so many more.”
11:52 A.M. The Story Behind Those Bizarre, Incredible Lily’s Garden Ads A mobile game about gardening has spawned a mysterious and intriguing ad campaign.
11:26 A.M. Andrew Yang Pledges to Continue Making Asian Jokes Despite criticism of his one-liners, Yang says he doesn’t plan to change anything about what he’s doing.
10:37 A.M. White House Circulating Gun Proposal Trump May Not Support The NRA is already denouncing the gun background-check bill that nobody in the Trump administration will openly embrace.
9:31 A.M. Trump Covering Up Disturbing Offer to Foreign Leader What about his phone calls?
9:15 A.M. Photo Shows Justin Trudeau Wearing Brownface Makeup in 2001 A yearbook photo shows the Canadian PM in brownface at an ‘Arabian Nights’ party. And a new video shows him wearing blackface in a separate incident.
6:30 A.M. Biden’s Electability Advantage Will Be Hard to Shake Most factors voters use to measure electability give Joe Biden an advantage, and Democrats are not in the mood to gamble on the 2020 outcome.
8:06 P.M. Jimmy Carter Saw a UFO on This Day in 1973 Carter promised to come clean on UFO intel if elected president, but like all of them, he backtracked.
7:29 P.M. Bolton Mad at Trump for Firing Him Just Before Iran Standoff You can’t always get what you want.
6:23 P.M. How Elizabeth Warren Should Talk About Medicare for All A populist like her should show some empathy for those who fear big government and politicians as much as they fear insurance and drug companies.
6:12 P.M. Decoding the Fed’s Interest Rate Cut Intelligencer staffers discuss the Federal Reserve’s latest maneuver — and President Trump’s criticism of it.

5:19 P.M. Does This Trendy New Scrub Really Give You Soft Skin? Five women try Necessaire’s The Body Exfoliator.
4:28 P.M. Are Ivanka and Meghan Markle Going to the Same Wedding? They’re both rumored to be headed to Rome for Misha Nonoo’s nuptials this weekend.
4:24 P.M. Brad Pitt Talks About Confronting Harvey Weinstein After Weinsten allegedly harassed Pitt’s then-girlfriend, Gwyneth Paltrow, in a hotel room.
3:59 P.M. Fendi’s Milan Runway Show, in Watercolor Our favorite looks from the show, illustrated.
3:49 P.M. How Would You Dress If You Weren’t Online? At Milan Fashion Week, Prada and Jil Sander offered a clean slate.
3:15 P.M. This Cult-Favorite Brand Launched a Running Shoe Veja is looking to make a running shoe with as little plastic as possible.
2:30 P.M. Join the Cut for a Weekend Celebrating Female Filmmakers Here’s the lineup for this year’s FFFest.
2:12 P.M. Sorry to Keke Palmer, Who Now Knows Who Dick Cheney Is After she went viral for very charmingly not knowing who the former VP was.
1:46 P.M. Let Yeardley Smith Tell You About Her Cats “So now I have this huge cat gym, which is basically the entire length of the stairway, that they don’t use. So I’m like, great. That’s awesome.”
1:15 P.M. Fendi Enters Its Own Age of Aquarius With a groovy runway show and a collaboration with Nicki Minaj.
12:42 P.M. How to Join the Global Youth Climate Strike Tomorrow, thousands of young people across the world will skip school to demand immediate action on the climate crisis.
11:57 A.M. How Singer-Songwriter Raveena Gets It Done The Indian-American singer on her new album Lucid, being a musician of color, and favorite chai spot in the city. video
9:33 A.M. The Sexy Halloween Store Has Outdone Itself Yandy is now selling a “sexy” Mr. Rogers Halloween costume.
9:29 A.M. Photo Shows Justin Trudeau Wearing Brownface Makeup in 2001 A yearbook photo shows the Canadian PM in brownface at an ‘Arabian Nights’ party. And a new video shows him wearing blackface in a separate incident.
8:43 A.M. Teen Climate Activists Make Congress Look Like Children “I don’t want you to listen to me. I want you to listen to science, and then act.”
8:00 A.M. Inside Cindy Adams’s Penthouse, Where Gossip Never Sleeps The columnist bought Doris Duke’s apartment 22 years ago, and even today the phone doesn’t stop ringing.
6:30 A.M. The Fashion-Favorite Singer Who’s About to Blow Up Meet Zsela.
Sept. 18, 2019 Sandy Hook Parents Release Chilling PSA for Back-to-School Showing the reality of what children face during mass shootings. video
Sept. 18, 2019 Jameela Jamil’s Anti-Diet Product Crusade Sort of Worked If you’re under 18, you’ll stop seeing ads for detox tea and other appetite suppressants.
Sept. 18, 2019 Prada’s Milan Runway Show, in Watercolor Our favorite looks from the show, illustrated.

6:10 P.M. Tekashi 69 Snitches on Cardi B, Jim Jones in Court Testimony A rep for Cardi denies she’s a member of the Bloods.
5:32 P.M. Brad Pitt Talks About Confronting Harvey Weinstein After the disgraced producer allegedly harassed Pitt’s then-girlfriend, Gwyneth Paltrow.
3:21 P.M. Dan Soder Lands His First HBO Stand-up Special Bo Burnham and Jerrod Carmichael are executive producing.
3:16 P.M. Gideon Adlon, Lovie Simone Join The Craft Remake’s New Coven Directed by Zoe Lister-Jones.
3:02 P.M. Dickinson Trailer: Hailee Steinfeld Is Horny Emily Dickinson Coming to Apple TV+ November 1.
2:51 P.M. Criminal Is More Thought Experiment Than Crime Procedural Spread across interrogation rooms in four countries, the series presents the notion that police work is basically the same no matter where you are.
2:41 P.M. Do Award Shows Even Need Hosts Anymore? Comedians Decide Should we just embrace the chaos?
2:22 P.M. I Love This Google Sponcon … I Mean Carly Rae Jepsen Video Hey Google: Play Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Want You in My Room.”
2:11 P.M. Wes Anderson’s New Film to Follow a Fanciful French Magazine The French Dispatch has been acquired by Fox Searchlight.
1:25 P.M. Every Between Two Ferns Episode, Ranked Sorting out the highs and lows of Zach Galifianakis’s absurd chat show.
12:56 P.M. Stop Giving Game of Thrones Emmys Already At this point, giving the era-defining series an award feels more like a shrug than a cause for celebration.
12:53 P.M. This Week in Podcasts: Raging Waters With Rachel Bloom It’s been a weird week for comedy, so let’s listen to some funny podcasts.
12:03 P.M. Unbelievable Recap: We’re Big Into Vengeance As Marie quietly accepts the indignities heaped upon her, Lilly takes the opposite tack.
12:03 P.M. National Lampoon Radio Hour Adds Your Favorite Comedy Babies Cole Escola! Jo Firestone! Brett Davis! Rachel Pegram! Maeve Higgins!
11:48 A.M. How Ava DuVernay Made the Year’s Best Miniseries A conversation about When They See Us, filmmaking, television, and American history.
11:33 A.M. Cher Performed ‘Waterloo’ Because We Do Deserve Nice Things A three-minute justification for why Technicolor even exists.
11:22 A.M. Let Liv Tyler Go to Space In Ad Astra and Armageddon, Liv Tyler plays the woman left behind. What this essay presupposes is: What if she went to space instead?
11:13 A.M. Paolo Sorrentino’s Loro Made Me Feel Dirty Loro shows how Silvio Berlusconi created a reality-distortion field around him. Sound familiar?
11:05 A.M. Want to Try Las Culturistas? Start Here. Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang’s podcast has many great episodes, but this one’s our favorite.
10:35 A.M. The Rhythm Section Trailer: Blake Lively is British! This accent work.

4:05 P.M. The Paul Hollywood Handshake Is the Absolute Worst Paul’s signature move has gone from a cute gesture to a threat to The Great British Baking Show as we know it. It must end.
2:00 P.M. The Tao Group Goes French With Cathédrale Soaring ceilings, 300 seats, classy cocktails, and plenty of steak tartare.
11:11 A.M. The Comfort Food You Need to Get Through These Trying Times Forget all your problems with upscale fish sticks, a surprisingly filling clam soup, poutine with a spin, and much more.
10:46 A.M. A Crash Course in an Entirely New Cuisine Can someone learn to feel a recipe in less than a week?
9:45 A.M. Konbini, the Japanese Café That Wasn’t, Will Now … Open? In just a few days, Konbini opened, closed for good, and then got set to open again.
Sept. 18, 2019 Flynn McGarry’s Gem Reopens With an Emphasis on Simplicity The 20-year-old chef leans into comfort food and steps back from his own expectations.
Sept. 18, 2019 America Continues Decline With KFC Doughnut Chicken Sandwich Eh.
Sept. 18, 2019 The Absolute Best Vegetarian Sandwiches in New York You’ll never miss the meat.
Sept. 18, 2019 The Restaurant With No Chef and No Trash Rhodora Wine Bar is slated to be New York’s first true zero-waste restaurant.
Sept. 17, 2019 ‘Tallboy’ Finally Added to Dictionary Maybe American culture isn’t in total decline after all.
Sept. 17, 2019 Here Are Bon Appétit’s 10 Best New Restaurants in America One New York City restaurant made the cut.
Sept. 17, 2019 How the Martini Went From Simple Cocktail to American Icon The literature and films that forever transformed the image of the once-humble drink.
Sept. 16, 2019 This Couple Actually Opened Their Dream Restaurant “We always had this dream to do something together.”
Sept. 16, 2019 James Murphy’s Williamsburg Café, Daymoves, Opens This Week They’re still working on Nightmoves, the bar it will transition into at night.
Sept. 16, 2019 Anthony Bourdain’s Possessions Will Be Auctioned Next Month The auction will benefit his family and a scholarship set up in his name at the Culinary Institute of America.
Sept. 13, 2019 Restaurant Power Rankings: Where to Eat Right Now It’s our weekly ranking of the city’s most important restaurants.
Sept. 13, 2019 Anxious Nation Awaits Arrival of Bud Light Hard Seltzer The anticipation is bubbling over.
Sept. 13, 2019 How Bon Appétit’s Claire Saffitz Gets It Done The Gourmet Makes host on fridge organization, self-care, and staying sane on set. video
Sept. 13, 2019 Whole Foods Will Cut Health Care for Nearly 2,000 Employees The Amazon-owned company will no longer provide benefits for employees who work less than 30 hours per week.
Sept. 13, 2019 The Great British Baking Show Recap: Proving Grounds The show’s most topsy-turvy week gives us a multitude of savory flavors, a marathon Showstopper challenge, and the season’s first Hollywood Handshake.

5:11 P.M. The Best Face Washes for Oily Skin, According to Experts Always remember to choose something gentle yet effective.
5:08 P.M. What Recorder Does the Reporter in Hustlers Use? The prop master gives us the lowdown.
5:01 P.M. 45 Gifts (That You Can Buy on Amazon) for Husbands We’ve got ideas for husbands who hike, cook, travel, and do everything in between.
3:43 P.M. This Messenger-Briefcase Combo Is the Only Work Bag I’ll Use There’s no corner of the bag that hasn’t been nerdily, almost hilariously sweated over.
3:07 P.M. The Best Cystic-Acne Treatments, According to Dermatologists From leave-on masks to topical creams.
12:34 P.M. 29 Splatterware-Enamel Things You Can Buy on Amazon Combining the best of brass and marble, but with way more color.
12:03 P.M. Lots of Hydro Flasks Are 20 Percent off at Backcountry For VSCO girls and outdoor enthusiasts, alike.
10:24 A.M. This Rarely-on-Sale Sunday Riley Serum Is 15 Percent Off An on-sale vitamin C serum to help brighten dull, fall skin.
Sept. 18, 2019 People Comment More on These $35 Earrings Than My $200 Pair I’ve worn them to art openings, dinner with my boyfriend’s parents, and out for coffee with a stylish new friend I wanted to impress.
Sept. 18, 2019 37 Gifts (That You Can Buy on Amazon) for Every Type of Wife Including a sophisticated stuffed sloth, a linen journal, a status apron, and more.
Sept. 18, 2019 35 Striped Tees for Every Kind of Person Preppy, grungy, minimalist, and maximalist stripes for all.
Sept. 18, 2019 Stripes As Far As the Eye Can See The casual luxury of stripes, an investigation.
Sept. 18, 2019 Urban Outfitters Has a Ton of Cute Barrettes on Sale Join the Great Barrette Movement of 2019, at a slightly lower cost.
Sept. 18, 2019 13 Things That’ll Sell Out: From Reformation to Post Malone Including Everlane’s new knit boots, sustainable denim from Reformation, and a revival of Scoop at Walmart.
Sept. 18, 2019 The Strat Haul: What One Editor Bought on His Trip to China Including a new-to-him status candle, a comically large (but quite useful) tote bag, and some rubber booties to slip over real shoes when it rains.
Sept. 18, 2019 Pendleton Socks Are on Sale at Zappos (for As Low As $8) Just in time for trading our sandals for closed-toe shoes.
Sept. 18, 2019 A Kids’ Books Publisher on the Best Kids’ Books by Artists There’s a particular kind of bedtime story that I inevitably position on top of the pile.
Sept. 18, 2019 This Perfect-for-Fall Madewell Tote Is 25 Percent Off A versatile favorite gets a seasonal refresh.
Sept. 17, 2019 The Button-Down That Saves Me From Flashing Strangers It has a built-in, exposure-proof button mechanism.
Sept. 17, 2019 18 Cheap (But Expensive-Looking) Area Rugs on Amazon Any would pull together all of your mismatched Ikea furniture, street finds, and vintage goods.

Visit Intelligencer » Visit The Cut » Visit Vulture » Visit Grub Street » Visit Strategist »

Latest News

Latest Intelligencer

Latest The Cut

Latest Vulture

Latest Grub Street

Latest Strategist

More Top Stories

Most Popular