New York Magazine: September 28, 2009 Issue

Table of Contents

September 28, 2009

Cover Story

Who Is Barack Obama?

A tenet of the president’s campaign was that rationality would ultimately break down the divisions that separate us. By Philip Weiss

On the Cover: Typography by Marion Deichars for New York Magazine. Photograph by Mannie Garcia/AP

Features

Hardball

The grown-up pressures of a little-boy’s game.
The Archbishop of Charm

If anyone can repair the church’s image, it’s Timothy Dolan. Except there are only so many nice ways to say no.
Vu.

Post-boom, second-generation starchitecture; a helpful guide to moving back from Brooklyn; how to live in your office building.

Intelligencer

Agenda

The Pastavore’s Progress

What’s remarkable about Michael White is that the man can’t stop topping himself.

Strategist

Departments

Culture