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Remote Work Is Poised to Devastate America’s Cities
To survive the work-from-home revolution, cities must let developers convert office buildings into deeply weird apartments.
Amazon’s New Car Cam Takes Personal Surveillance on the Road
It’s marketed as a security solution. But there will be other uses.
New York Magazine on Business
The Junkification of Amazon
The “everything store” has gotten junkier and more chaotic. But, for the company, it’s only good business.
New York Magazine on Climate Activism
After Alarmism
The war on denial has been won. And that’s not the only good news.
New York Magazine on Crypto
Why Hasn’t Sam Bankman-Fried Been Arrested Yet?
Bernie Madoff was arrested in a matter of days after his fraud came to light, but SBF is still a free man. What gives?
How Did SBF Convince West Africans Crypto Was Their Future?
At least Madoff’s clients were rich.
New York Magazine on Europe
How Europe Stumbled Into an Energy Catastrophe
The commodities specialist and popular Twitter commentator known as Doomberg believes the continent’s leaders have epically mishandled Putin.
New York Magazine on Greta Thunberg
It’s Greta’s World
But it’s still burning. The extraordinary rise of a 16-year-old, and her Hail Mary climate movement.
New York Magazine on Politics
How to Make a Semi-Fascist Party
The hostile, paranoid, and increasingly authoritarian path ahead for American conservatism.
New York Magazine on Silicon Valley
Peter Thiel’s Origin Story
His ideology dominates Silicon Valley. It began to form when he was an angry young man.
«perhaps the most important influence in the world’s most influential industry.»
How to Major in Unicorn
Many of the 1,700 freshmen arriving in Palo Alto this September didn’t come for the Romantic poetry but to network, raise capital, and drop out.
New York Magazine on Trump
Donald Trump Didn’t Want to Be President
One year ago: the plan to lose, and the administration’s shocked first days.
The Final Campaign
Inside his sad, lonely, thirsty, broken, basically pretend run for reelection. (Which isn’t to say he can’t win.)
New York Magazine on Twitter
The ‘Twitter Files’ Is What It Claims to Expose
The purported exposé of Twitter’s political bias is itself an attempt to weaponize control of Twitter for political purposes.
Inside Elon’s ‘Extremely Hardcore’ Twitter
Twitter’s staff spent years trying to protect the platform against impulsive, ranting billionaires — then one made himself the CEO.
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Andrew Sullivan: My Distraction Sickness — and Yours
An endless bombardment of news and gossip and images has rendered us manic information addicts. It broke me. It might break you, too.
How the Coronavirus Could Take Over Your Body (Before You Ever Feel It)
How the novel coronavirus could take over your body before you ever felt it.
The Uninhabitable Earth
Plague, famine, heat no human can survive. This is not science fiction but what scientists, when they’re not being cautious, fear could be our future.
We Had the Vaccine the Whole Time
The silver bullet we’ve been waiting for took all of one weekend to design.
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New York Magazine on Social Media
The Rise of Influencer Capital
How social media, celebrity promoters, and banks looking for a quick buck transformed the markets.
Elon Musk and the Sad Mod Theory of Social-Media CEOs
You may technically run the place, but most of your users just see you as a glorified moderator.