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crime The Shame of Saint Ann’s How did a Brooklyn private school fall for an accused predator? By Caitlin Moscatello and James D. Walsh
first person I Was Diagnosed With Autism in My 40s. It Gave Me Answers. By 43, Mary HK Choi had come up with many explanations for her strangeness around other people. Was it something else all along? podcast By Mary H.K. Choi
books Four Friends, One Affair, and a Shelf of Books Dissecting It When writers cheat on each other, everything is fair game for publication. podcast By Chris Heath

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Kamala Harris and Those ‘Lock Him Up’ Chants

The vice-president — and former prosecutor — has it exactly right so far. By Elie Honig

tremendous content So, Trump’s Helicopter Crash Story Is Just a Crazy Lie? He didn’t just mix up Willie Brown and Jerry Brown at his Mar-a-Lago press conference — it appears there was no near-death helicopter experience. By Margaret Hartmann
politics Will Anything at All Happen With Trump’s January 6 Case Before the Election? Special counsel Jack Smith cited a need for further consideration of the Supreme Court’s presidential-immunity decision, delaying everything again. By Nia Prater
early and often Democrats Should Ditch the J.D. Vance Couch Joke It’s both beneath them and not that funny. By Benjamin Hart
the national interest How Harris Wins Bidenism brought the Democrats to the brink of catastrophe. Obamaism can save them. By Jonathan Chait

the money game
How to Buy a President Donald Trump’s joke of a media company is also a $6 billion meme stock — and an unprecedented opportunity for corruption. By David Freedlander

early and often Trump Agrees to Debates at Press Conference: How It Happened He made some debate news, repeatedly questioned Kamala Harris’s intelligence, and compared his crowd size to MLK Jr.’s. By Intelligencer Staff

early and often Why the Swiftboating of Tim Walz Won’t Work The attacks on Walz’s military service are weak tea. And they’re being vigorously contested, not ignored like the attacks on John Kerry in 2004. By Ed Kilgore

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The Cut

Did Adele Just Confirm She’s Engaged to Rich Paul?

how i got this baby The Mom Who Didn’t Know She Was Pregnant “A wave of pain hit me so badly that I catapulted up from the recliner, landing with my back arched like a cat ready to attack.”
personal finance Are You Ready For a ‘Mini-Retirement’? Meet the 20-somethings trying to save up enough money to quit their jobs and travel the world.
astrology This Mercury Retrograde Is Turning Up the Heat in August You know, in a meltdown sort of way.

sales A Huge List of Sales: Patagonia and Babaà Including a sale-on-sale at Anthropologie and some top picks from Dermstore’s Anniversary Sale. By Sam Daly
celebrity What Blake Lively and Myha’la Wore This Week From the It Ends With Us premiere to Copenhagen Fashion Week, the best looks of the week. By Brooke LaMantia
scene report Ice Spice Celebrates the Bronx With Her Y2K Tour The Bronx rapper kicked off her Y2K tour in New York with hometown heroes Sheff G and A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie. By Shamira Ibrahim

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Vulture

movie review

Borderlands Is a Total Catastrophe

One of the strangest things about so many of these studio salvage-job disasters is that we’re often left wondering: What happened to the salvaging? By Bilge Ebiri

SNL’s Opera Man Sings What We’re All Thinking About the End of Game of Thrones

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ooh la la The Highs, Lows, and Whoas of the 2024 Olympics LOW — A potential muffin shortage in Olympic Village? By Jason P. Frank, Anne Victoria Clark, and Jennifer Zhan
endings I Have So Very Many Questions About Cuckoo’s Time-Loopy Ending What in the name of bird flu is this movie trying to say? By Laura Bradley
baby come back Joaquin Phoenix Puts the ‘Quitter’ in LGBTQ Reportedly pulling out of an explicit gay romance five days before filming. By Jason P. Frank

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The 9 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Weekend Time to yell at Industry again. By Savannah Salazar

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Elio Kennedy-Yoon Is Flattered to Be Your ‘Copacabana’ Crush By Jennifer Zhan

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The Strategist

men’s apparel 20 of the Very Best Men’s Socks From cozy cashmere to moisture-wicking merino. By Jeremy Rellosa
sales sales sales Everything Worth Buying at Dermstore’s Anniversary Sale Including Elta MD sunscreen and Vacation’s nice-smelling sunscreen. By Tembe Denton-Hurst
sales A Huge List of Sales: Patagonia and Babaà Including a sale-on-sale at Anthropologie and some top picks from Dermstore’s Anniversary Sale. By Sam Daly
women’s apparel The 14 Very Best Bras for Small Breasts No uncomfortable underwires here. By Ambar Pardilla
travel The 12 Very Best Laptop Backpacks Protect your tech — without compromising style. By Jordan McMahon

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Curbed

design edit

Blocky Face Ceramics, Brazilian Modernism, and More Design Finds

Plus, a new Chinatown antiques gallery by designer Fernando Santangelo. By Morgan Meier

listings edit This Week’s Worth-It New York City Apartment Listings Norman Mailer’s former home in Brooklyn Heights is on the market. By Nora DeLigter
celebrity real estate Norman Mailer’s Old Apartment on the Promenade Is for Rent The shiplike $13,000-a-month two-bedroom sparked a bidding war last time it was available. By Adriane Quinlan
bed-stuy fish guy A Puddle Full of Goldfish in Bed-Stuy A Bed-Stuy native spruced up the block with goldfish under a trickling hydrant. Transplants concerned with the fish’s health wanted to get them out. By Matt Stieb

getting around Scaling Back Congestion Pricing to Save It Here’s a proposal that keeps the core of the plan intact but addresses Governor Hochul’s chief concerns. By Nolan Hicks
street fights The City Wants to Demolish a West Village Recreation Center The historic Tony Dapolito center with a Keith Haring mural is landmarked but the city says it’s too expensive to preserve. By Clio Chang
street fights The Billionaire vs. the Old Money On a coveted slice of Lake Michigan, a land swap has triggered a seething conflict over the malign influence of wealth. By Ben Ryder Howe

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Grub Street

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Asher Perlman’s Grub Street Diet

“I’m a sucker for anything that’s both mushy and crunchy.”

q&a Do You Have Questions for Our Critic? Ask Them Here! Join us on the New York Magazine Instagram for a Q&A with chief restaurant critic Matthew Schneier about the city’s dining scene.
restaurant review Massara Charms, to a Degree Is the follow-up to Rezdôra bigger and better — or just bigger? By Matthew Schneier
openings A Burrito Icon Returns to a Changed City and a Familiar Neighborhood New York’s Mexican scene has improved since the ‘90s, but La Taq still has plenty to offer. By Chris Crowley
creative justice The Empathy Punishment A woman hurled a burrito bowl at a Chipotle employee. Then a judge made her walk in the victim’s shoes. By Reeves Wiedeman

guides
Where to Eat in August The best restaurants for right now. By Edward Hart

the grub street diet Chef Aaron Crowder’s Grub Street Diet “Camp cooking is always fun and sometimes kind of trashy, which I love.” By Zach Schiffman

restaurant review Bungalow Proves a Celebrity Chef Can Still Draw a Crowd Vikas Khanna’s downtown restaurant expands the reach of the city’s traditionally Punjab-focused Indian cuisine by venturing across the subcontinent. By Matthew Schneier