The Best of New York Magazine

During the boom times, I launched a start-up so I could become rich. Years later, I’m still looking for my exit.

As indie music platforms like Bandcamp deteriorate, artists must cater to a single, powerful streaming platform.

The luxury Italian fashion brand is no longer quite as understated as it once was.

A key lesson of the pandemic.

The war on denial has been won. And that’s not the only good news.

AI is great at creating uncanny-valley product photos. Its utility for consumers is less clear.

The “everything store” has gotten junkier and more chaotic. But, for the company, it’s only good business.

The Vision Pro — think of it as a face computer — is surreal, fascinating, unsettling, and $3,500.

Richard Walter was hailed as a genius criminal profiler at murder trials, at forensic conferences, and on true-crime TV. In reality, he was a fraud.

After possibly the most expensive jewelry heist in U.S. history, Brink’s went after the victims.

At least Madoff’s clients were rich.

Following the Bankman-Fried debacle, SEC chief Gary Gensler is getting tough — and answering questions about his role in the mess.

Ignoring universal humanity is the path to murder.

The hostile, paranoid, and increasingly authoritarian path ahead for American conservatism.

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.»

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.

How social media, celebrity promoters, and banks looking for a quick buck transformed the markets.

The Israel-Hamas war shows how platforms like Twitter are moving further downstream from reality.

One year ago: the plan to lose, and the administration’s shocked first days.

Inside his sad, lonely, thirsty, broken, basically pretend run for reelection. (Which isn’t to say he can’t win.)

The purported exposé of Twitter’s political bias is itself an attempt to weaponize control of Twitter for political purposes.

Twitter’s staff spent years trying to protect the platform against impulsive, ranting billionaires — then one made himself the CEO.

Cathie Wood built a thriving brand out of price-prediction porn — then the tech bubble popped.

He sold 12 million copies of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck. Then he started taking his own advice.

Work, communication, and even thought change when we can instantly command convincing images into existence.

The strange but affirming experience that is Mensa’s Annual Gathering.

An endless bombardment of news and gossip and images has rendered us manic information addicts. It broke me. It might break you, too.