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Adrien Brody Found the Part

 The Brutalist is his best, most personal work since The Pianist. podcast By E. Alex Jung
the city politic

The Mayoral Race Has Begun. Everyone Is Frozen.

 There are lots of candidates, and plenty of scandal and drama — but mostly there is waiting. podcast By David Freedlander
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How Does My Divorce Make You Feel?

 As a therapist, I try to keep my personal life private. After my public split, that was no longer in my control. By Dr. Lilly Jay

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  1. asians in america
    Swallowing Our BitternessThe burden of swallowing anti-Asian racism is making America and me sick.
    By Kathleen Hou
  2. the real estate
    The Gut Renovation of Ryan SerhantHe was a real-estate striver slinging cheap rentals until Million Dollar Listing — and a pandemic market — made him the plutocracy’s broker of choice.
    By Andrew Rice
  3. the city politic
    Maya Wiley, the Crisis CandidateShe believes a traumatized city deserves a progressive mayor — and she is certain she’d be better at it than her former boss Bill de Blasio.
    By Rebecca Traister
  4. movies
    Chloé Zhao’s AmericaThe creator of quiet indie dramas is now the most-sought-after director in Hollywood.
    By Alison Willmore
  5. politics
    The Lincoln Project Is Accused of Protecting Sexual Predator John WeaverJohn Weaver used his power to get jobs for young men he allegedly harassed. His colleagues were warned.
    By Miranda Green
  6. pandemic
    How Long Can COVID Cases Keep Plummeting?There’s a mysterious element to the good news.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  7. power
    Marilyn Manson ‘Almost Destroyed Me’Game of Thrones actress Esmé Bianco says her relationship with the singer left her with physical scars and PTSD.
    By Angelina Chapin
  8. coronavirus
    How COVID Accelerated a Fight Against Food DesertsA push for healthier food options for one of New York’s hardest-hit populations.
    By Muriel Alarcón Luco
  9. games
    A Telling Streak at the Pandemic Super BowlA blowout that should have been remembered for cementing Tom Brady’s legacy instead served as a symbol for the nation’s coronavirus failures.
    By Will Leitch
  10. this is country music
    Morgan Wallen Is a Problem of Country Music’s Own MakingIf Wallen is going to be packaged and pushed aside as an abhorrent anomaly, a false narrative gets to go unchecked.
    By Andrea Williams
  11. covid-19
    Why Aren’t More Health-Care Workers Getting Vaccinated?The reasons are complex, but the largest health-care workers union may have found a solution to the hesitancy problem.
    By Sarah Jones
  12. the law
    Reintroducing Sonia SotomayorThe once-maligned justice has taken up the mantle of RBG and Thurgood Marshall. But what can she accomplish on the most conservative court in decades?
    By Irin Carmon
  13. capitol riot
    QAnon and the Bright Rise of BeliefJanuary 6 was a terrifying day in history, not least because it felt like witnessing the birth of a religion.
    By Kerry Howley
  14. wakes
    The Unknowable MF DOOMUnmasking the late rap supervillain with the people whom Daniel Dumile gave a slightly less obstructed view.
    By Drew Fortune
  15. unemployment
    The Human Toll of New York’s Restaurant-Unemployment Crisis“I felt like my life was in total stasis.”
    By Chris Crowley
  16. education
    ‘I Want to Meet My Teacher’A war over reopening schools has upended the progressive politics of the New Jersey suburbs.
    By Andrew Rice
  17. the body politic
    America Is Back, IndeedWith Biden, we’ve restored our country’s favorite tradition: basic, middling, white patriarchy.
    By Rebecca Traister
  18. green rush
    Million Dollar SliceChris Barrett has made bank on the gray market selling pizza laced with 40 mg of THC per slice. Can the Pizza Pusha survive pot legalization?
    By Jay Bulger
  19. the national interest
    Biden: ‘We Must End This Uncivil War.’ Here’s What It Would Look Like.Let’s briefly imagine what it would take to make Biden’s dream real.
    By Jonathan Chait
  20. life after warming
    After Climate AlarmismThe war on denial has been won. And that’s not the only good news.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  21. covid-19
    I Tried to Get a ‘Leftover Dose’ of the Vaccine Last NightHundreds of other New Yorkers did, too.
    By Stephen Lurie
  22. he admit it!
    Stupid Times Call for Stupid JokesIt makes perfect sense that I Think You Should Leave has found new life as a political metaphor.
    By Kath Barbadoro
  23. why not?
    How Locked Down Convinced Harrods to Let a Film Crew Into Its VaultsDoug Liman’s COVID heist movie began with a dare: write a screenplay, land financing, and rush into production, all while in quarantine.
    By Chris Lee
  24. capitol riot
    Don’t Impeach Trump: Treat Him Like a Civil War TraitorThe Constitution contains a quick and simple way to bar the president from holding office again.
    By Cristian Farias
  25. the city politic
    The New York Mayor’s Race Is Under Way. It’s Getting Interesting.At least one thing is clear: The old rules of how mayoral campaigns unfold have to be thrown out.
    By David Freedlander
  26. the national circus
    The Trashing of the RepublicThe only response to the carnage in Washington is to banish Trump and his traitorous collaborators from civil society.
    By Frank Rich
  27. the body politic
    The Only Strategy Left for DemocratsAfter this week, the mandate is clear: Make people’s lives better. And stop trying to placate Republicans.
    By Rebecca Traister
  28. psychology
    The Memory WarJennifer Freyd accused her father of sexual abuse. Her parents’ attempt to discredit her created a defense for countless sex offenders.
    By Katie Heaney
  29. books
    The Implosion of American DirtHow one of publishing’s most hyped books became its biggest horror story — and still ended up a best seller.
    By Lila Shapiro
  30. investigations
    The Lab-Leak HypothesisFor decades, scientists have been hot-wiring viruses in hopes of preventing a pandemic, not causing one. But what if …?
    By Nicholson Baker
  31. shot in the arm
    The Vaccine Arsenal That Will Win the War on COVIDNot all shots are created equal. Here’s what the treacherous, hopeful road ahead looks like.
    By Jeff Wise
  32. covid-19
    Weddings to Die ForWhat a viral story about COVID nuptials tells us about American society.
    By Sarah Jones
  33. street view
    ‘You’re Walking Backwards’: The $6 Billion Venice Floodgates May Not Be EnoughProposed decades ago, they were not built for the coming sea rise.
    By Justin Davidson
  34. nmcu
    A Chaotic Taxonomy of the Nancy Meyers Cinematic UniverseOver four-plus decades, the filmmaker has created a very specific visual language. Here is the key.
    By Rachel Handler
  35. in conversation
    Francis Ford Coppola Is Still Going for BrokeHis recut of The Godfather: Part III is one of his most personal projects yet, but it’s far from his last.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  36. coronavirus
    NYC Restaurant Workers Are Grappling With the Crushing Mental Toll of COVID“All of this is kind of killing me right now.”
    By Chris Crowley
  37. in conversation
    In Conversation With Barack ObamaThe former president on his advice for Biden, his critics on the left, and what he has learned about the GOP.
    By Jonathan Chait
  38. afterimages
    Our Shared UnsharingInstagram couldn’t handle 2020 either.
    By Stella Bugbee
  39. reasons to love new york
    500 Reasons We’ve Loved New YorkA send-off to the many places, big and small, that closed in 2020.
    By The Editors
  40. the canon
    The Rise (and Fall) of Citizen Kane As the Greatest Movie Ever MadeHow did Orson Welles’s film become so firmly established at the top of the canon in the first place?
    By Bilge Ebiri
  41. power
    Trump Lost, But My Brother’s Still in a Far-Right MilitiaThe Cut spoke with someone who knows what it’s like to lose a family member to conservative propaganda.
    By Anna Silman
  42. books
    Is It Possible to Enjoy This Winter?In her memoir, Wintering, Katherine May suggests that retreating from the world in the coldest, darkest months has its benefits.
    By Molly Young
  43. city people
    Now That an Urban Planner Is on the City Council, Can She Help Fix Los Angeles?Nithya Raman is calling for systemic change — including breaking up her own district.
    By Alissa Walker
  44. authoritarianism
    Liberal Hyperbole About Trump’s Authoritarianism Was Never the ProblemThe stakes of semantic debates over Trump’s alleged “fascism” and “coup” are much lower than liberals or left-contrarians care to admit.
    By Eric Levitz
  45. furniture
    Hideous? Perhaps. But It’s Time to Accept the Gaming Chair.“To invest in what you are actually doing — where you are actually sitting — might seem like capitulation but is also self-care.”
    By Alexandra Lange
  46. the body politic
    Stacey Abrams On Finishing the Job In Georgia“It can be undone just as quickly and as effectively as we did it.”
    By Rebecca Traister
  47. rip
    Good-bye to the Lox Sherpa of New York City“It always felt like Sherpa really saw you.”
    By Joshua David Stein
  48. first person
    COVID Took My Grandfather. But It Wasn’t What Killed Him.His death, six months into the pandemic, is as political as it is biological.
    By Sarah Jones
  49. mysteries
    The Great 21st-Century Treasure HuntWas there a better way to spend the past decade than on a maddening, deadly, brain-scrambling search for gold hidden somewhere in the American West?
    By Benjamin Wallace
  50. election results
    The 2020 Election Has Brought Progressives to the Brink of CatastropheDemocrats probably just won the presidency – but lost the chance to govern at the federal level for a long time to come.
    By Eric Levitz
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