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September 21, 2015 Issue
Cover Story
Donald Trump Is Saving Our Democracy
Far from destroying it, he’s exposing all its phoniness and corruption in ways as serious as he is not. And changing it in the process. By Frank Rich
On the Cover: Photo-illustration by Bobby Doherty. Trump photograph by Michele Asselin/Contour by Getty Images. Wig styling by Sharelle Roberts for Raffaele Mollica. Body-double casting by Impossible Casting.
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Features
The Prom Queen of Instagram
The new rules of high-school popularity, explained by a 16-year-old Upper East Sider with thousands of followers she doesn’t even know. By Reeves Wiedeman
How Has Chinatown Stayed Chinatown?
It’s one of the only Manhattan neighborhoods to have resisted gentrification. Meet the reasons why. By Nick Tabor
My Husband Is Now My Wife
For trans women, arriving at a new gender is cathartic and thrilling. For the women they married when they were men, it can be wrenching. By Alex Morris
Intelligencer
Games: Believe, People
Can Mets versus Yankees happen in the World Series?
Twindergarten!
Portraits of the 11 — 11! — sets of twins in one Long Island kindergarten center.
141 Minutes With Dan Backer
Hillary hater-in-chief (and the guy trying to pump more money into politics).
Treats: The Oreo Boom
How to explain the surge in sales for the corn-syrup-laden classic.
Sex Lives
How long should sex actually last?
The Cut
Fashion Week: Splendor
Cathy Horyn on the extraordinary Givenchy show.
Strategist
Best Bets
Handmade dolls; a 3-D-printed 24-karat-gold tiger skull.
The Look Book
The law-school counselor with a fierce red beard.
The Restaurant Review
Storied Boston omakase palace O Ya brings boom-time bluefin to the Flatiron.
The Dish
A rare Northern Thai snack.
The Status Survey
The best way to impress, whether you’re an oligarch, a Dyker Heights nonna, or a New Age gardener. As explained by them.
Real Estate
Inside the residential-development boom.
Culture
Meet the Hardy Boys
Tom Hardy, twice as good at playing the Kray brothers.
Punk Poet
It only took 19 books and a presidential bid for Eileen Myles to get her due.
Music: Miles Davis Lives
Understanding the jazz legend, in nine parts.
Carey Mulligan Goes to Work
The erstwhile ingénue takes a radical turn in Suffragette.
Toronto Film Festival Interview
If you enjoyed her reshoots wig in Fantastic Four, Kate Mara is happy.
The Movie Review
Emily Blunt thrills in Sicario.
The Movie Review
99 Homes’ capitalist critique.
The Art Review
How Picasso the sculptor ruptured art history.
The TV Review
The charming new Muppet Show.
To Do: September 23–October 7, 2015
Twenty-five things to see, hear, watch, and read.
Departments
Comments: Week of September 21, 2015
Readers sound off on climate change, exonerated prisoners, and more.
The Approval Matrix: Week of September 21, 2015
Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.
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