Politics

Kushner—who cowrote the screenplay for Spielberg’s controversial, eerily prescient film about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—recalls telling the director, “You do understand that we’re going to get into an enormous amount of trouble” when Spielberg decided to do the movie.

But if you've never watched the First Lady get on and off a plane, Brett Ratner's got a movie for you.

Jason Zengerle, author of a revealing new book about Tucker Carlson’s career, Hated by All the Right People, discusses the rightwing media kingpin’s potential presidential ambitions and much more: “I don’t think he just wants to be a podcaster. I think he really wants to change the country.”

“We know we are the ones who keep us safe,” says store owner Jessie Witte, as area vintage shops transform into command centers for neighborhood defense networks.

Snowstorms have long been an aptitude test for New York City mayors. For this particular blizzard, Mamdani coolly dressed the part.

What happens when a group of men, incarcerated under bleak conditions, are left to govern themselves? In Walpole State Prison in 1973, “peace reigned” for weeks—until the guards were sent back in.

For his first moments as the new mayor of New York City, Mamdani wore a jazzy tie made by a buzzy Indian designer.

A wave of AI-assisted “Kirkslop” has twisted the right-wing personality’s legacy—carefully molded by Republicans, Fox News, and religious conservatives after his murder—beyond recognition, writes Kieran Press-Reynolds. But is this a righteous answer to spin, or a new collective degradation?

W. David Marx’s Blank Space names the forces—including poptimism, edgelords, and the cult of the founder—that have stalled cultural reinvention over the last 25 years, and wonders what might make us create again.

Flaunting “traditional values” was once a winning strategy to gin up attention online, but being “trad” was never a true countercultural movement, argues the writer Katherine Dee. The real question is, can a counterculture be found online at all?

This spring, the 26-year-old Abugazaleh launched a primary campaign to unseat an 81-year-old Democratic congresswoman. Now she’s facing up to 15 years in federal prison after protesting ICE in her home state. “I think [the Trump] administration will face a lot more backlash than it expects,” she says, describing what she thinks comes next for the country.

On Halloween night, four days before Election Day, the Democratic mayoral frontrunner incites gleeful pandemonium among adults, kids, and broccoli-haired teens alike during the neighborhood’s annual costume parade.

On a recent afternoon at his official residence, New York City’s embattled but seemingly untroubled outgoing mayor enjoys a cigar and muses on his love of different cultures, Cuomo and Mamdani, and the story behind “all my haters become my waiters.”

“Everything we’ve covered in the show is coming to a head with the Trump administration in a very weird way,” says Liz Franczak, one third of the cult podcast TrueAnon, which snowballed from Epstein deep dives into a wide-ranging chronicle of our current malaise. Franczak, Brace Belden, and the man known as Yung Chomsky weigh in on everything from the “fairly moderate” Zohran Mamdani to Gen Z’s rightward swing.

There are the Tumblr “Nickstorians” and sincere fanfics. But are young, liberal, possibly irony-poisoned women fetishizing or even falling for the hard-right streamer with the “groyper” following? Writer Katherine Dee investigates.

In the battle for the soul of the Democratic Party, Senate candidate Graham Platner might be the perfect soldier: The virile, earthy working man many male politicians wish they were, with the committed lefty beliefs many voters are now demanding. But here in Maine, he’ll need to win over some Trump voters—if he can even make it through the primary.

Kiefer Sutherland’s kneecap-shooting, human-rights-law-defying American badass held a mirror up to the country’s darkest fantasies in an ugly historical moment. Now might be the right moment to take another look.

Right-wing grifters are trying to smear the mayoral frontrunner for making a Juelz Santana reference on Twitter—but at least it's an excuse to revisit a perfect NYC rap song.

California’s governor is shilling graphic tees, red trucker hats, and (supposedly) Bibles that take aim at the president. “If Trump keeps handing us material, we’ll keep punching back with it,” says a spokesperson.

As Democrats look forward after the 2024 election, some leftists are betting on the gym as a recruiting tool. “I don’t think this should belong to the right.”