Innholdsfortegnelse for October 14-27, 2019 i New York Magazine

1 For New York’s latest cover story (“Was It Worth It?,” September 30–October 13), 22 women and men talked about what happened after they came forward with accounts of sexual harassment and assault. Bruce Karp wrote, “This article made me wonder how we’ve gotten to the point where people who do wrong manage to suffer no consequences, while those who try to do the right thing end up being the ones who suffer consequences.” Soraya Chemaly, author of Rage Becomes Her, wrote, “Everywhere I go, women talk about this, and the double bind of coming forward.” The filmmaker and first partner of California, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, added, “It’s time we start paying more attention to the women who said #MeToo than the men whose lives are ‘ruined’ by the consequences…

THE CRIMES FOR WHICH IMPEACHMENT is the prescribed punishment are notoriously undefined. And that’s for a reason: Presidential powers are vast, and it’s impossible to design laws to cover every possible abuse of the office’s authority. House Democrats have calculated that an impeachment focused narrowly on the Ukraine scandal will make the strongest legal case against President Trump. But that’s not Trump’s only impeachable offense. A full accounting would include a wide array of dangerous and authoritarian acts—82, to be precise. His violations fall into seven broad categories of potentially impeachable misconduct that should be weighed, if not by the House, then at least by history. I. ABUSING POWER FOR POLITICAL GAIN EXPLANATION ➝ The single most dangerous threat to any democratic system is that the ruling party will use…

A financial experiment in three true stories. SOON AFTER Michael Tubbs became the mayor of Stockton, California, at the age of 26—the youngest of a city of over 100,000 and Stockton’s first African-American mayor—he directed his policy fellows to research ways to reduce poverty. Four years earlier, in 2012, the city had declared bankruptcy, and it was still mired in high unemployment and crime. The team came back to report that one way to end poverty was to give people money. This solution had a name, “universal basic income” (UBI), and a long history in America as a social-policy idea. It had been embraced by Thomas Paine and Milton Friedman and made a cornerstone of the Poor People’s Campaign advanced by Martin Luther King Jr. Both Richard Nixon and Jimmy…

TOM STUKER, 67, Consultant and World’s Most Frequent Flier, en route to the U.K. How likely is it that we’d run into you here? Very. I’m at the Polaris Lounge quite a bit. I hit my 10 million-mile flight in 2008—they threw me a monster party at the lounge in Chicago. The next year, I started getting public attention because Up in the Air came out and the media was looking for a real-life George Clooney. Later, I got this email from this polite British guy that said, “Excuse me. I happen to be in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s No. 1 flier.” His numbers did turn out to be a million more than mine. Nicest guy. Passed him about three years ago. But I’m not…

ON AN EARLY FALL afternoon at a dry-pot restaurant in the East Village, the critic Andrea Long Chu is talking about herself, which is, by her account, one of her favorite things to do. So is numbing her notoriously sharp tongue with Sichuan peppercorns, and, as she raises a quail egg to her lips, it seems she may even be feeling something akin to happiness—not a sensation she experiences very often, as her following on Twitter is well aware. Her feed is a font of grotesque self-loathing. She writes about her suicidal tendencies and her desperation to be hot in the same irreverent style she used to ridicule Jill Soloway and Bret Easton Ellis in a recent pair of devastating book reviews. But her sadness isn’t just a bit. A…

“INDIE AND UNIVERSITY PRESSES publish some of our most innovative contemporary writing. At the moment, I’m eagerly awaiting fellow Iowa Short Fiction Award winner Emily Wortman-Wunder’s story collection, Not a Thing to Comfort You (University of Iowa Press), which contest judge Carmen Maria Machado compared to the work of Andrea Barrett for its lyric portrayals of the natural world and its interactions with humans who love, fear, and study it. I’m rather biased in favor of short stories about women’s inner lives, desires, and secrets, so I’m also looking forward to reading Colette Sartor’s Once Removed (University of Georgia Press), a collection about the intimate relationships between women. Josephine Rowe’s recent collection Here Until August (Catapult), which novelist Michelle de Kretser compared to the work of Alice Munro for its…

ON TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24—in a move that was either months overdue or dangerously premature, depending on whom you ask—House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced a formal impeachment inquiry. In the weeks since, public polling has continued to climb in its favor, but that doesn’t mean the Democrats are about to smoothly “impeach the motherfucker,” as Representative Rashida Tlaib declared the night she was sworn in to Congress. The impeachment proceedings of the past were divisive national theater, and that was before Twitter and Facebook and a conspiracy-theorist president superpowered the country’s partisanship. Are we headed for a full-fledged constitutional crisis by Christmas? A survey of this high-stakes moment, from the Democrats’ war room to the Republicans’ bunker (and what it has felt like for the rest of us).…

IT’S HARD TO BE WORRIED when you don’t really like the guy.” That’s what one senior Republican Senate aide had to say when I asked how concerned conservatives are about Donald Trump’s fate. The truth is Trump fatigue is a condition that knows no party, and many Republicans are as tired of this shit as anybody else. That’s not to say they’re outraged or motivated to Make a Difference. They’re just tired. You can live inside the right-wing bubble in a state of depression, resigned to the fact that, yeah, every five minutes or so the president is probably going to do something norm shattering or potentially impeachable, and, no, you probably won’t or can’t do anything to change that. Sad! “I’m totally bored by the story,” one person who…

Aja Newman went to the emergency room for shoulder pain. Her doctor was a superstar. What’s the worst that could happen? SOMETIME AFTER 2 A.M. on January 12, 2016, Aja Newman roused herself from her hospital gurney and made her way down the long hallway to the bathroom. She had checked in at Mount Sinai’s Emergency Department more than four hours earlier with severe shoulder pain. Aja is a practical person and had been reluctant at first. “Emergency rooms are for emergencies is what I was taught,” she says. But the pain had been dogging her all day long and amplifying steadily, so that by 6 p.m., while she was shopping at Target, “my hands were tingling, and I was afraid.” ¶ The attending doctor who examined her first was…

THREE YEARS AFTER DEBUTING as a digital vertical that helps you shop the internet smartly, the Strategist has launched in the U.K. (thestrategist.co.uk). We’ll be sharing some of our flagship’s greatest hits with new readers across the pond, like the 2018 investigation into the popular–on–the–Upper East Side Amazon coat from Orolay that ended up going viral online and in real life. But mostly, the site will be surfacing brand-new (always useful, often surprising, occasionally truly strange) products specific to those who live in Britain—from the German shower squeegee that’s able to tackle London’s “hard” water to the amaretti biscuits that cookery author Skye McAlpine uses in her trifles. For these and other items unearthed by British travel writers and shopkeepers and shopping obsessives (all of which are available in the…

Clément Faugier Gourmet Chestnut Spread $9 at amazon.com “Whenever I spot tins of this I buy as many as I can carry. It tastes like fudge; I devour it by the spoonful.” Forno Bonomi Amaretti Biscuits $5 at mercato.com “I always have these on hand. You can use them in trifle or crumble them over chocolate pudding.” El Navarrico Judion de La Granja Beans $29 at amazon.com “These look so pretty on the shelf, shimmering in their jars, but they also pack a lot of flavor.”…

How are the snacks? You know, pretty lame. Except the cheese. I like the Gouda. And the water bottles. I fly 300,000 miles a year; I know how to hydrate. Where are you going? Berlin, for holiday. I’m looking forward to visiting KaDeWe, a 100-year-old department store. The top floors have food stations, each of which carries Champagne, of course, and the shopping is very exclusive. Is it a special occasion? Our 40th wedding anniversary. My husband sent a text to his friend saying, “I’m heading to Lake Como to unwind from Nantucket.” His friend was like, “I can’t really imagine having to unwind after Nantucket.” First time in the lounge? Oh, definitely no. I have five kids; two go to school in France, the other three in the Netherlands.…

HE MIGHT BE JUST 23, but Timothée Chalamet is already an Oscar-nominated leading man, a social-media phenomenon, and, perhaps most surprisingly, a fashion icon. This awards season, only two years after Call Me by Your Name and Lady Bird, he stars again in two anticipated movies: Netflix’s The King, based loosely on Shakespeare’s “Henriad” cycle of plays, and Greta Gerwig’s star-studded adaptation of Little Women. Here, two pages of accumulated wisdom from countless interviews of (and about) the internet’s latest boyfriend. WHERE HE GREW UP New York City, on 43rd Street in Hell’s Kitchen. His mom was a dancer, his dad edited French publications at UNICEF, and his sister is an actress. (“I like to think that the need to act and be seen came from my mom’s side, but…

WE’VE ACTUALLY BEEN talking about how eating here tonight is kind of festive,” Jacob, a community manager who recently moved to New York from Chicago, tells me while standing on the corner of Second Avenue and East 9th Street on the first Saturday night in October. In Washington, lawmakers are digesting reports that Trump will stonewall the impeachment inquiry until a full House vote. Jacob and his sister, meanwhile, are waiting for a table at Veselka, New York’s iconic Ukrainian diner, which serves pierogi, borscht, and pancakes of both the refined-white-flour and potato varieties all day, every day. “Are we celebrating? Are we eating in shame?,” Jacob asks. He’s not sure. Jacob’s friend Frank is staying abreast of the news: “You know what? It’s not a lot. Trump literally used…

On Thursday, September 26, stock in the fitness company Peloton began trading on NASDAQ. It didn’t go that well. The company-slash-cult, which sells expensive stationary bikes and treadmills equipped with screens for livestreaming intense fitness classes, wound up opening at $27 a share—a price that valued the whole company at close to $8 billion. It closed at $25.76—not a bonanza day. Still, everyone was cheering, not least because cheering is a reflex for a lot of people in the fitness world, and a number of the Peloton team members who had gathered in Times Square that morning are in the business of motivation. Mostly, though, they were cheering because predictions for the debut had been even worse. And because, even with that price decline, you’re still talking about a $7…

Month One  I VISIT GRACE AT HER APARTMENT in an affordable-housing complex in one of the city’s “hot zones”—so called for their high crime rate. It’s three days before the first disbursement. We sit side by side on a bed in her living room, which is otherwise empty except for a crib and a large playpen containing a few toys and stuffed animals. Grace’s 1-year-old daughter, Jackie, is with her father so Grace can focus on her career. She and Jackie’s father are “on a kind of break,” she says. Grace tells me she just got back from a ski trip to Lake Tahoe with a group of 40 “women in tech” organized by Arielle Zuckerberg, Mark Zuckerberg’s younger sister. She shows me pictures on Face-book of herself among the…

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