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What a generation of boys have found in Andrew Tate’s extreme male gospel
Tate-Pilled That the boys remember is not one particular meme or video, but how Andrew Tate conquered their TikTok “For You” pages seemingly overnight. Without warning last summer, the former kickboxing world champion obliterated the NyQuil-chicken recipes, the Minion mobs, the Amber Heard mockeries, and every other trending brainworm. It’s probably not an exaggeration to
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‘There’s No Room in the System’
A plan to commit the homeless has little meaning in the ER.
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A Handgun for Christmas
Will a jury find James and Jennifer Crumbley criminally responsible for their son’s mass shooting? In July 2022, New York Magazine published “A Handgun for Christmas,” a story about Jennifer and James Crumbley, the Michigan parents charged with manslaughter after their 15-year-old son brought a gun to school and killed four of his classmates. According
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The Evacuation of Team A
AJ Subat helped scores of strangers evacuate Afghanistan. Then he became a hero, a brother — and got in way over his head. On the night of August 23, 2021, nine women, three men, and a baby stood before Immigration officials at the Dulles Expo Center in Washington, D.C., debating how to proceed. They had
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Brandon Stanton’s Empire of Empathy
How Humans of New York became a one-man philanthropy machine Stanton is the creator of “Humans of New York,” the popular publication that has given him more wealth, freedom, and influence than he, a man whose dreams have always been outsize, ever imagined. Brandon Stanton was seated on a metal folding chair in the cavernous
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AOC: From Adrift, Broke, and Disillusioned To The New Face of the Democratic Party
The candidate was young—twenty-eight years old, a child of Puerto Rico, the Bronx, and Yorktown Heights. She was working as a waitress and bartender. She was completely unknown, and taking on a ten-term incumbent in a city famous for protecting its political institutions. “Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office,” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said
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Huma Abedin Is Ready to Tell You Who She Is
Throughout a public career and marriage, the political confidante has remained an enigma, until now. Huma Abedin and I have arranged to meet in a Westchester parking lot at 10 a.m., and I’m stuck in traffic on the West Side Highway, 31 miles away. Abedin is a lot of things, but first and foremost she
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Children of Quarantine
What does a year of isolation and anxiety do to a developing brain? Starting on April 6, a bearded and earnest neuroscientist at the University of Oregon named Philip Fisher began to send a digital questionnaire — at first weekly, and then, beginning in August, biweekly — to a representative group of a thousand American
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My Therapists Were Right About Uncertainty
Faced with actual, persistent chaos, I’ve realized there was never a way to outpace danger. Michelle Obama wants to know if I have a plan to vote. The financial-services company hopes I have a plan for retirement. (“Will the world always be this unpredictable?” its paternalistic print ad asks.) My family inquires about the plan
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Why Did I Think She Wouldn’t Die?
I’m not sure why I imagined Ruth Bader Ginsburg would live — not forever, maybe, but long enough to protect us. Long enough to vote to preserve Joe Biden’s victory in what will surely be a contested win and assure the expulsion, finally, of the troll from the throne and the resumption of recognizable government.