SEARCH HISTORY
“The Lawsuit Doll”: How TikToker Zaya Perysian Took the Trump Administration to Court
July 8, 2025
After receiving a passport with the wrong gender marker, the TikToker joined forces with the ACLU to sue the Trump Administration. We slid into her DMs to get to know her a bit better.
VOTE
“Fuck the Decorum”: New York Punk Justin Brannan Wants to Be Your Comptroller
June 20, 2025
Our editor-in-chief met up with the reformed punk at a Coney Island diner to find out why he wants to be New York City’s next comptroller—and what, exactly, the job entails.
OUTSIDE
“If Not Us, Literally Who?”: New Yorkers Want ICE Out of the City
June 11, 2025
At Foley Square on Tuesday evening, New Yorkers banded together to call for an end to the ICE raids and rampant deportations that sparked an uprising in Los Angeles, where President Trump deployed National Guard.
STANDOFF
On the Front Lines at the ICE Protests in Los Angeles
June 10, 2025
Photographer Jamie Lee Taete takes us to the front lines of Monday’s mass demonstration against a wave of ICE arrests in Los Angeles.
SMOKE BREAK
Qween Jean Wants New Yorkers to Vote (and Then Vogue)
May 30, 2025
“We are acceptable in the skin that we are in,” said the activist and founder of Black Trans Liberation. “And we will disrupt anyone that is saying otherwise.”
SEARCH HISTORY
Vivian Tu of @YourRichBFF Gives Us the Skinny on Trump’s Tariffs
April 16, 2025
Days after the President announced tariffs on 90 different countries, we hit up the internet’s resident finance expert to find out if we’re on the brink of a global trade war.
LOCAL NEWS
18 New Yorkers Put Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani to the Test
April 3, 2025
Can the 33-year-old democratic socialist lead the Big Apple into a new era? We asked celebrities, politicians, and everyday New Yorkers to help us find out.
OUTSIDE
“We Should All Be Worried”: New Yorkers Flood the Streets for Mahmoud Khalil
March 12, 2025
On Monday afternoon, we joined thousands of New Yorkers at Manhattan Federal Plaza, where The People’s Forum hosted a demonstration against the sudden detention of Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil.
ONWARDS
“Hope Is Our Greatest Weapon”: New Yorkers React to the Presidential Election
November 6, 2024
At election watch parties in Brooklyn and Manhattan, we asked New Yorkers to share their immediate reactions to Donald Trump’s win over Vice President Kamala Harris.
closing argument
“Wisconsin Gives Me Gut-Level Heartburn”: Milan Singh, in Conversation With Josh Barro
November 4, 2024
In the final installment of Substack’s Election Dialogues, journalist Josh Barro joins Yale’s Milan Singh to talk swing state forecasts and Trump’s down-ballot acolytes.
CLOSING ARGUMENT
“Gun to Your Head, Who’s Going to Win?”: Dan Pfeiffer, in Conversation With Sarah Longwell
November 1, 2024
The former Barack Obama senior advisor and “Pod Save America” co-host joined political strategist Sarah Longwell to assess the state of the presidential race.
TOSS UP
Got Election Anxiety? Nate Silver Can’t Save You.
October 31, 2024
As election day approaches, the founder of FiveThirtyEight talked to us about Americans’ fraught relationship to polling and Silicon Valley’s embrace of the 45th president.
FIRST LADY
“At Least Her Dress Is Pretty”: Brontez Purnell Reviews Melania Trump’s New Memoir
October 30, 2024
The experience of reading Melania Trump’s new memoir, Brontez Purnell writes, was one of “lobotomized boredom punctuated with turbulence and terror.”
IN CONVERSATION
Marianne Williamson and Matt Taibbi on Censorship, Authority, and the 2024 Election
October 29, 2024
For Substack’s “Election Dialogues,” Marianne Williamson talked to author and journalist Matt Taibbi about resisting the hive mentality.
PARKS
Meet Joseph Reiver, the Man Fighting to Save the Elizabeth Street Garden
October 23, 2024
As the beloved Elizabeth Street Garden once again faces eviction, we met up with the man taking on the Eric Adams administration in order to save it.
POLITICS
Geraldo Rivera Tells Us Why He Finally Turned On His Old Friend Donald Trump
October 18, 2024
Journalist Molly Jong-Fast called up the veteran newscaster earlier this week to discuss his decades-long friendship with Donald Trump and to find out why he’s formally endorsed Kamala Harris for president.
RORSCHACH TEST
Claudia Conway on Hunter Biden, Alternative Facts, and Project 2025
October 14, 2024
In anticipation of November 5th, we asked the daughter of George and Kellyanne to sound off on Fox News, Ella Emhoff, iPad babies, and the Electoral College.
CANDIDATE
This Election, Dr. Cornel West is Leading With Love
September 12, 2024
The Presidential candidate tells his brother why a revolutionary vision for America is our way out of the abyss.
ELECTION
“Diva With the Fake Tan”: New Yorkers Sound Off on the Presidential Debate
September 11, 2024
As Kamala Harris took on Donald Trump in the Presidential Debate, we bar-hopped around Williamsburg to find out what matters most to New Yorkers: drama, inflation, and affordable housing.
POLITICS
“You Cannot Delete a People”: Rep. Jasmine Crockett, by Whoopi Goldberg
August 21, 2024
After a viral clapback minted her as a rising star in the Democratic party, the Texas congresswoman talked to Whoopi about the weaponization of wokeness, surviving political attacks, and how to keep your cool in the chaos that is D.C.