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Knocking on Doors for Mamdani’s Rent-Freeze Brigade
A volunteer’s ‘SOCIALISM’ bracelet was a hint that New York City’s public turnout campaign for rent-control hearings might not live up to its own rules…
Josh Code
New York Needs Gustavo Dudamel
The New York Philharmonic has spent years chasing politics and prestige. The celebrated conductor will bring back the one thing that matters: music.
Liel Leibovitz
Great Americans: The Michelangelo of New York
Every stoop and fire hydrant Martin Scorsese’s camera catches is a love poem to New York City. He should know better than to make movies about anywhere…
Colin Quinn
The Stakes of the Trump-Xi Summit. Have We Passed ‘Peak Human’? Plus. . .
Olivia Reingold on Zohran Mamdani’s wife, Rama Duwaji. Haviv Rettig Gur on how anti-Israel propaganda ends up in the New York Times. And more.
The Free Press
Rama Duwaji Wants the Spotlight, Just Not the Scrutiny
Zohran Mamdani says his wife is a private person. Is he right?
Olivia Reingold
‘I Don’t Want to Put Another Black Man in Jail’
The murder of a New Yorker could have been averted if not for the suicidal empathy that is spreading among victims.
Kat Rosenfield
Met Gala 2026: Fashion Might Be Art, but It’s Not Always Pretty
Suzy Weiss and Elliot Ackerman weigh in on the good, the bad, the peplum, and the leather. Lots of leather.
Suzy Weiss and Elliot Ackerman
The Sad, Wretched Reality of New York City’s First Casino
Two days after Resorts World’s grand opening in Queens, I headed there to find out what gambling looks like in the financial capital of the world.
Will Rahn
Mamdani, Scapegoating the Rich Won’t Fill a $5.4 Billion Budget Hole
New York City’s wealthy pay 40 percent of its bills. The mayor just declared war on them.
The Editors
This Week in American History: The Other Manhattan Project
Two hundred fifty years ago this week, George Washington and his Continental Army set off for fortified New York City and prepared to repel a British…
Jonathan Horn
Zohran Mamdani’s Racial Equity Obsession
‘New York’s history has been one of colonization, exploitation, and racial oppression,’ the mayor’s office says. To correct that, he wants his policies…
Howard Husock
Terror on the Upper East Side
Two men inspired by ISIS tried to detonate homemade bombs yesterday in Manhattan. But you wouldn’t know that from New York City’s mayor.
Mene Ukueberuwa
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