In the Apr. 15–28 issue: Olivia Nuzzi on “wonder boy” Pete Buttigieg. Plus: Art & Design, by Wendy Goodman; the half-billion dollar “Leonardo”; Natasha Lyonne, Annette Bening, and more.
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California Can’t Wait for a Green New Deal • Slashing carbon won’t help for decades. It’s time to adapt.
Ben Smith • Starting trouble with the New York Times media columnist.
Ranking: Pandemic Fitness • The winners and losers.
What If They Make a Vaccine and Nobody Takes It? • There are already clear signs that the public is suspicious about corners being cut.
Buying Myself Back • When does a model own her own image?
LOCK HIM UP? • For the Republic to survive Trump’s presidency, he must be tried for his crimes. Even if that sparks a constitutional crisis of its own.
THE PEOPLE V. DONALD J. TRUMP • The criminal case against him is already in the works—and it could go to trial sooner than you think.
INJURED? • Bruised egos, gobs of money, and the bitter feud that took down CELLI NO & BARNES, New York’s absurdly ubiquitous accident law firm.
Finally, E-Bikes
Some Rules for First-Time Riders
Renegotiating Your Rent (Or Finding a Better Deal)
The Met • The day the art museum reopened, with timed ticketing and temperature-taking at the door, at 25 percent occupancy.
Hao Noodle’s Zhu Rong on Reopening in Chinaandon Sixth Avenue • “I love New York, but it’s just a different situation.”
A Mid-Century in the Catskills With Room to Make Art • Last year, the Fiery Furnaces’ Eleanor Friedberger and artist Michael Berryhill found the perfect house in a not-yet-hip town upstate. Now they can’t wait to have visitors.
THE CITY AND THE BEATS • 100 songs that tell the story of New York rap, ranked.
Delusions of Whiteness • In Rumaan Alam’s new thriller, a white family staying at a Hamptons Airbnb is startled when the Black owners knock on the door.
The Business of Making It on OnlyFans
Desperate to Be Relevant • Antebellum is cinema’s latest failed attempt to speak to “the moment.”
Girl Power, Inc. • Disney’s live-action Mulan loses the songs but amps up the corporate nationalism.
Splat Go the Heads • The gleeful carnage of The Boys isn’t without purpose. But who benefits?
Coastal Elites Is As Distanced As Its Subjects • Adapting the smuggest aspect of New York theater for the small screen.
To Do • Twenty-five things to see, hear, watch, and read.
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THE APPROVAL MATRIX • Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.