At Cynthia, an emphasis on low-waste cooking yields a menu of thrilling abundance.

The SAVE America Act is just one part of a package that includes an executive order and threats of prosecution, all in an effort to make Trump’s math work.

The author Madhuri Vijay reads her short story from this week’s issue. Listen here.

“All my friends have their gods & their heavens / & their plans on how to get there.”

The big, dumb, gluttonous fun of America’s Semiquincentennial.

A moment of stillness.

In the fall of 1995, three decades after the March on Washington, the sports bar and restaurant chain Hooters staged a march of its own. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (E.E.O.C.) had accused Hooters of illegal hiring practices, as part of…

The shape of a certain kind of scandal is remarkably similar, epoch to epoch. A charismatic, mysterious figure is accused of conducting secret sexual rituals that are threatening and exploitative. The accusation rumbles, then explodes locally, drawing in…

The Yahoo Boys, by Carlos Barragán (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). In 2022, the author of this engrossing investigation travelled to Lagos, Nigeria, to find the person who, years earlier, ensnared his mother in an online romance scam. What he discovered was a…

Khalil protested Israel as a student at Columbia. Now he’s on the verge of being kicked out of the country.

The Gotham weed dispensary’s content director gets stoned at N.Y.C. landmarks for her video series, “Hi, I’m High.” On a trip to the Guggenheim, she critiques kooky sculptures and reflects on her trippy career path.

After seventy-eight years, New Jersey finally has a new lookout spot for blazes. With more frequent wildfires and record temperatures, it’s not a moment too soon.

“We were never a family of food snobs.”