New York Magazine 3/19-4/1/18

1 In dozens of interviews, essays, and conversations, New York explored the impossibly urgent question of “How to Raise a Boy” (March 5–18). Daphne C. Watkins of the University of Michigan’s School of Social Work responded: “This feature is a reminder that we need to think critically about the way we are raising our boys. With changing times and passing decades, we have been able to revolutionize the roles of girls and women. But we need to start normalizing the unique ways boys develop, and treat this with the same open-mindedness we apply to girls. Girls can dance along the boundaries of gender norms, but not our boys, and we are long overdue for a change. We now live in a progressive world that eagerly waits for boys who are…

 RELIEF WASHED OVER a packed courtroom and exhausted jury when the people of New York rested their case against former nanny Yoselyn Ortega for the murders of Lucia and Leo Krim. The feeling was a little like at the end of a grueling movie, when the lights come up and everyone in the audience exhales simultaneously. “I didn’t cry until today,” a court reporter said, shaking her head and dabbing an eye. “What the hell—?” a man said, palms raised in disbelief, gesturing at Ortega and her defense lawyers. “It was a horror movie,” Krim testified. At the end of the hall, she saw a crack of light from the bathroom door. The story of how 6-year-old Lucia and 2-year-old Leo died five years ago reads like a dark fairy…

SO FAR IN HIS ten years of life, Desmond Napoles has cultivated one defining talent, and it’s his ability to work a runway. It’s the thing that inspired his drag name, Desmond Is Amazing. And it’s the reason he’s visiting the Phluid Project, a gender-neutral clothing store near NYU, the week before it opens. The “Ph” in “Phluid,” the owner explains, stands for the balance of masculine and feminine, “where we find perfection and harmony.” So it takes about two minutes for Desmond to notice the platform in the center of the store, built to display mannequins. He heads straight to it, turns to his mom, and says, in a high-pitched squeak, “Look, Mommy, I’m walking the runway!” And takes off. When he’s standing still, Desmond looks like an anthropomorphized…

An entire industry realizing there’s a better way to do business isn’t collusion. KENNY WILLIAMS HAD a fruitful six-year Major League Baseball playing career as a journeyman before, at the age of 27, starting as a scout for the Chicago White Sox, the team that had drafted him in 1982. Over the next 25 years, he worked his way up to general manager and constructed a team, the 2005 White Sox, that won the World Series—ending one of the longest curses in baseball, almost as long as the one the Cubs would break in 2016. But to a large number of baseball fans and connoisseurs of literary nonfiction best sellers, not to mention (and this is key) hundreds of people who currently work in baseball front offices, Williams isn’t any…

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 ON THE MORNING OF Wednesday, February 28, Hope Hicks arrived at the White House just after 8 a.m. Within a week, it would be snowing in Washington, D.C., but she was dressed for spring in a bouquet of purple, yellow, and blue, as if willing the end of winter with her miniskirt. She held on to her iPhone in the West Wing, in violation of a rule that normally diverted it to a locker secured by a shiny silver key, then retreated to her office, a first-floor broom closet that in the past had been assigned to presidential secretaries. Lewandowski “didn’t really want any responsibility. He just wants to be able to be with the president.” When the administration began 13 months before, competition among some staffers had manifested…