New York Magazine: May 01, 2017 Issue

Table of Contents

May 1, 2017

Cover Story

Aziz Ansari Is From a Red State, Too

The comedian who became political despite himself. By Jada Yuan

On the Cover: Aziz Ansari. Photograph by Martin Schoeller for New York Magazine.

Features

Beyond Alt: The New Reactionary Counterculture

Coming to grips with the most potent political movement of our age.

By Andrew Sullivan, Noreen Malone, Max Read, Simon van Zuylen-Wood, and others
Why the Reactionary Right Must Be Taken Seriously

An open-minded inquiry into the close-minded ideology that is the most dominant political force of our time — and can no longer be ignored.

By Andrew Sullivan

Intelligencer

Hollywood Signs

Can Get Out’s success be replicated?
171 Minutes With Elisabeth Moss

How The Handmaid’s Tale star built the most enviable résumé in television and discovered her personal feminism along the way.
Notebook: Here Come the Tourists

Visiting New York has never felt so politically fraught.
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Social media ruined popularity.
Reread: November 2, 1970

The hot (if you turned on the heater) mattress craze of 1970.

Culture

The Cut

The Most Popular Girl in Hollywood

But YouTube star Lele Pons has social media to thank for fame.

Departments

Strategist