New York Magazine: January 7, 2019 Issue

Table of Contents

January 7, 2019

Cover Story

‘Come On Down to the Rio Grande Valley. I’ll Show You Around.’

A ride-along with a Border Patrol at once empowered and besieged. By Mattathias Schwartz

On the Cover: A Border Patrol agent apprehending an undocumented immigrant near Nogales, Arizona, in June 2017. Photograph by Kirsten Luce.

features

A 6-Year-Old Trapped in a Teenager’s Body

“I was all of the things people are when they’re 14 or 15” — except ten years younger.

By Patrick Burleigh
On ‘On Being’

NPR’s Krista Tippett tends to her flock in the Church of The Spiritual (but not necessarily religious).

By Amy Larocca

INTELLIGENCER

Tomorrow

Less sex, two dueling Internets: Eight expert predictions for life in 2039.

DEPARTMENTS

THE STRATEGIST

CULTURE