Jon Batiste on a Lifetime of Musical Alchemy

JON BATISTE HAS NO interest in fitting neatly into categories. The lifelong musician instead is engaged in what he calls a broader “humanist” project— to be as multifaceted and expressive a creator as possible, be that as a recording artist, an Oscar-winning film composer, or a bandleader for The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.

The Good Grift

The big lie of Theranos, rendered on a human scale.

The Money Game: Kevin T. Dugan

The Seize of Moscow. How far can Joe Biden push economic sanctions?

Maryam Nassir Zadeh Is Raising Two Kids in This All-White Loft

“We’re working on becoming more minimal.”

Can Republicans Commit Voter Fraud?

The revealing case of Mark Meadows.

Another Life

Ke Huy Quan was a child star who built a career behind the camera. Now he’s returning to acting—and bringing all his past selves with him.

Forever on the Clock

Work-life separation, whether you like it or not.

Brandon Stanton's Empire of Empathy

Since launching humans of New York 12 years ago, the street photographer has pivoted his blog into a one-man philanthropy that raises millions of dollars for random people.

The Woman's Redemption Plot

You know the story: A previously maligned public figure gets an eight-episode empathy tour.

Legend Has It

Tailing Kanye West for two turbulent decades.

PUNK ROCK STAR of STAGE AND SCREEN

John Cameron Mitchell, actor, director, and rent-regulated Village bohemian, has taken his streamer paycheck to New Orleans, where he’s hoping to reconnect with what New York used to feel like.

Chuck Klosterman Lived Through This

In his new book, he tries to write about the ’90s as it felt at the time— at least to people like him.

What Happened to the Witnesses

"Filming police killings can have long-lasting consequences. Four who did tell their stories."

189 Minutes With … Art Spiegelman

"As the latest fight over Maus erupts, its artist-creator searches for his eyeglasses."

The Science of Us: Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz

Stress Toys for Tots: The mental-health industrial complex comes to the kids’ aisle.

EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES

Kenneth Watkins’s son, Kenny, was 6 days old when he was taken away and placed with a wealthy foster family. To regain custody, Watkins had to prove that being poor didn’t make him a bad father.

After Trayvon

This February will mark ten years since his death sparked a movement. But ten years on, are Black lives any safer? Featuring Derecka Purnell on Sybrina Fulton’s grief; Michael Arceneaux on George Zimmerman’s acquittal; Elizabeth Hinton on the return of mass protest; Sean Campbell on the murky finances of the Black Lives Matter organization; Brittney Cooper on standing your ground while Black; Ramsey Orta, Feidin Santana, Abdullah Muflahi, and Diamond Reynolds on the long-lasting consequences of filming police killings; and more.

Tomorrow: David Wallace-Wells

COVID Is a Vibe. After Omicron, the pandemic will be what we make of it.

Justice: Irin Carmon

The Lonely Liberal Minority What can Stephen Breyer’s successor accomplish?

CRITICS

Helen Shaw on Long Day’s Journey Into Night … Kathryn VanArendonk on The Gilded Age … Alison Willmore on Belle.

Locals Only

A cabaret star asks: Can you find yourself without leaving home?

SEE SPOT PAINT

Agnieszka Pilat has become the Silicon Valley elite’s favorite artist. Even The Matrix’s Neo owns her work.

The Money Game: Choire Sicha

America’s Quarter-Life: Crisis Where’s our change? The answer is gnarlier than you’d expect.

The Group Portrait: the Majority

For the first time, women make up most of the City Council.

The Money Game: Anonymous

A Trip to the Meme-Coin Casino “I think this is all stupid and absurd. But I’m not going to complain.”

86 minutes with … Peter Sarsgaard

The bee-raising, orchard-tending Brooklyn aristocrat on reading Nabokov and making films with Maggie.

Remeeting a Girl Named Maria

If you liked West Side Story before, you’ll love it now.

The National Interest: Jonathan Chait

What the Insurrection Accomplished Trump has transformed his party into something once unrecognizable

My Penis, Myself – A Love Story

On the day I heard that my penis would be huge, I sobbed.

686 minutes with …“Gloria”

Tripping till 10 a.m. with a psychonaut therapist at the after-parties for New York’s psychedelics conference.