New York Magazine 9/18-10/1/17

1 Bill de Blasio appeared on the latest cover of New York Magazine, along with our prediction that he “is going to be mayor again, whether you like it or not”— an outcome that seemed even more certain after he routed Sal Albanese in the September 12 primary (“In Conversation: Bill de Blasio,” September 4–17 ). While the cover image raised eyebrows—“I’m going to need some convincing that Andrew Cuomo didn’t design this cover himself,” tweeted BuzzFeed’s Saeed Jones—many weighed in on what the mayor told interviewer Chris Smith. For the New York Times, William Neuman wrote, “Poor Bill de Blasio—so good at being mayor and so misunderstood … As he appears to be cruising toward a likely reelection without strong opponents, [his tone] is remarkably both self-aggrandizing and self-pitying.”…

January 10, 1977 Demographers predict the millennial baby-boom. “The baby bust has, of course, affected all segments of American society and it has been in progress since 1957, the year that is considered the official climax of the post–World War II baby-boom. From that date forward, family size began to shrink, as did the national birthrate, which fell from 25.3 in 1957 to 17.5 in 1968 to 14.8 in 1975. Thus, given the precedents, one might predict that the future of babies in America is dim … But according to the boom theorists, this is far from what is going to happen. Demographer Richard Easterlin, professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania and father of today’s most accepted baby-boom theory, says, ‘The trend is now going to reverse itself.’”…

BACK IN MAY, Hillary Clinton addressed the graduating seniors at Wellesley College and advised them: “Don’t be afraid of your ambition, your dreams, or even your anger.” Clinton, who at the time was working on her quick, raw post-election memoir, What Happened, has been heeding that last bit of her own advice. It is 100 percent more candid than anything she has previously expressed during her 25 years in national politics. But what makes it unusual and unusually valuable—what sent its early critics into apoplexy even before its publication—is that in it, Hillary Clinton is expressing anger, something she was not free to do during the election, even as her opponents, Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, were admired for their ability to channel the rage of their supporters. The question…

RIGHT NOW, at your fingertips, you have access to the interior monologue of the president of the United States—or, as former press secretary Sean Spicer called @realDonaldTrump’s digital feed, “official statements.” Unless, that is, you’re blocked. Trump and his staff have now stopped dozens of citizens from reading his dispatches, seemingly because they disagree with or insulted him. Several Twitter users (including those at right marked with an * ) have filed a lawsuit with Columbia’s Knight First Amendment Institute, claiming a violation of their right to free speech. The DOJ has counterargued that tweeting is a modern presidential duty and you can’t sue the president for doing his job. New York asked those #BlockedByTrump about the experience. The White House had no comment for this story, on Twitter or…

WE ARE LIVING in a world full of assholes. To be sure: There are no census figures to back this up, no national registry from which to draw statistics, but one need only look at the headlines to see that the asshole population has not only grown in recent years but also spawned some new and rather alarming mutants. I mean, Martin Shkreli? Travis Kalanick? PewDiePie? “You can make the argument that we are living in Peak Asshole,” says Robert Sutton, a Stanford professor who, as the author of the iconic 2007 book The No Asshole Rule, is perhaps the world’s leading expert on the species. According to Sutton, the problem of “disrespectful, demeaning, and downright mean-spirited behavior” is “worse than ever,” which, while it may be bad news for…

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