A deeply reported look at how polarization and compounding crises, including the war in Gaza and threats to democracy, have reshaped American politicsFascism or Genocide is New York Times Magazine writer Ross Barkan’s sweeping report on the 2024 US election and the decade of political upheaval leading up to it.As in 2020, Joe Biden campaigned on a platform to save democracy, but fewer voters were persuaded this time. During the Democratic ...

A stark and unsettling portrait of success, in the vein of Philip Roth and Jonathan Franzen, that revives the long-established intersection between ambition and corruption in the pursuit of the American dream.Teddy Starr has it all. A beloved pastor in a small Midwestern town, a devoted husband and father of three, and a rising real estate magnate, he has built a life that gleams with virtue and success. Self-made in every sense, Teddy is a man of conviction, or at...

It's 1973 and Mona Glass is a 24-year-old amateur tennis star in a long-running affair with Saul Plotz, her former college professor. Her parents like Saul and desperately want the free-spirited Mona to marry. But 34-year-old Saul already has a wife and two children. One day, Saul happens on an idea: stage a fake wedding for the benefit of her old world parents, invite a few friends in on the joke, and go about their lives.The ruse works. Except Saul realizes he actually wants to m...

It's 1973 and Mona Glass is a 24-year-old amateur tennis star in a long-running affair with Saul Plotz, her former college professor. Her parents like Saul and desperately want the free-spirited Mona to marry. But 34-year-old Saul already has a wife and two children. One day, Saul happens on an idea: stage a fake wedding for the benefit of her old world parents, invite a few friends in on the joke, and go about their lives.The ruse works. Except Saul realizes he actually wants to m...

A behind-the-scenes, deeply reported window into Zohran Mamdani’s campaign and early days as Mayor of New York, and the impact his socialist platform will have on a local and national scale—from a New York magazine journalist with unparalleled accessOn October 23, 2024, Zohran Mamdani announced that he was running for mayor of New York City. In the year that followed, he went from anonymous political organizer to global celebrity, fundamentally shifting th...

In this coming-of-age thriller, a twelve-year-old boy’s spark of courage to question the harmonious wooded commune he calls home may burn down more than just his own illusions.Lucien has everything he needs: a loving mama, a library full of books, and House of Earth, a private school nestled safely in the woods of upstate New York. It’s where Lucien is taught the importance of living in harmony with nature and building a peaceful and sustainable future. But when hi...

Der Anti-Trump: Zohran Mamdani und der Weg in ein anderes AmerikaWährend sich die USA unter Präsident Trump vor den Augen der Welt in einen autoritär regierten und außenpolitisch isolierten Willkürstaat verwandeln, richtet sich der Blick vieler progressiver Beobachterinnen und Beobachter hoffnungsvoll auf New York City: Dort übernahm Anfang des Jahres Zohran Mamdani, ein junger muslimischer Sozialist, das Bürgermeisteramt – und set...

A behind-the-scenes, deeply reported window into Zohran Mamdani’s campaign and early days as Mayor of New York, and the impact his socialist platform will have on a local and national scale—from a New York magazine journalist with unparalleled accessOn October 23, 2024, Zohran Mamdani announced that he was running for mayor of New York City. In the year that followed, he went from anonymous political organizer to global celebrity, fundamentally shifting th...