New York Magazine: May 28, 2012 Issue

Table of Contents

May 28, 2012

Cover Story

A Life Worth Ending

“What I feel most intensely when I sit by my mother’s bed is a crushing sense of guilt for keeping her alive.” By Michael Wolff

On the Cover: Theauthor’s mother, Van Wolff, circa 1942.

Features

Post-Racial Farce

Electing the first black president was supposed to show that Americans had evolved on the issue of race.

By Frank Rich
Out for Blood

Add a balmy winter to a sewer system full of standing water and you very well might get the prime conditions for out-of-control mosquito breeding.

By Robert Sullivan
George Romney for President, 1968

When the governor of Michigan ran for the Republican nomination, in 1968, he tried to stand up against the more radical wing of his party.

By Benjamin Wallace-Wells

Intelligencer

Agenda

Regal Return

Potlikker is devoted to decidedly American fare,often with what Liza Queen calls “rural and working-class roots.”

Strategist

Departments

Culture