The Best of New York Magazine

Atlanta lawyer Carlos Mucha was just spitballing on a financial blog. He didn’t expect Washington, D.C., to listen.

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.

It began with his incentives and his weird psychology. Then came COVID.

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

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.

Nuclear energy is the only existing non-carbon technology that can compensate for renewables’ liabilities.

How the VC learned to love Big Brother.

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

You may technically run the place, but most of your users just see you as a glorified moderator.

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.

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.

Fewer insta-billionaires might make for healthier companies.

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.