New York Magazine March 14-27, 2022

1 For New York’s latest cover story, Rebecca Traister profiled New York State attorney general Letitia “Tish” James (“The Object of Their Ire,” February 28–March 13). Safe Horizon policy director Jimmy Meagher called it an “excellent profile,” writing, “I always appreciate Traister’s analysis of power—who has it and what do they do with it.” Reader Jessica Lee added, “One of the things I love best about @rtraister profiles is there is always a gender, feminist lens but it’s so artfully done, undoubtedly reaching more audiences than if it screamed ‘here’s a feminist profile of a lady leader.’ This one is so great.” In response to James’s comments that she would be “more than happy to expose [Andrew Cuomo’s] record,” the former governor’s spokesman, Rich Azzopardi, told Newsweek, “While no one…

IN LATE 2018, the United Nations published its landmark IPCC study “Global Warming of 1.5°C.” Sometimes called the “Doomsday” report, it outlined the dramatic outcomes—150 million additional deaths from air pollution, once-a-century floods hitting every year—if the world became just half a degree warmer than the Paris Agreement’s stated goal of limiting warming to one and a half degrees above the preindustrial average. To the shock of many scientists and activists who had wondered for years why no one really engaged with flaring climate warnings like these, the report literally changed the world, first inspiring a hyperbolic turn in newspaper headlines, then igniting a wildfire of global alarm that burned bright for several years. That alarm led to the canonization of Greta Thunberg, gave prominence to Extinction Rebellion in the U.K.…

ON THE FIRST Sunday in March, Emmanuel De La Rosa was speeding across the Williamsburg Bridge. It was the first leg of a 20-mile “ride out”—from a skate park on the Lower East Side into Brooklyn, up to Queens and then back across the Manhattan Bridge—with 300 or so others. This particular ride out was in celebration of three birthdays, and unlike De La Rosa’s own seven-degree birthday outing in January, people actually showed up: “They looked a little rusty on the bikes, but it was good to see them back out,” he says. Organized over Instagram and by knowing who’s who on the scene, the rides have been happening in the city on various scales for years now. These two-wheeled herds used to stress out the cops, who would chase…

IN A PARKING-LOT-ADJACENT patio behind a low-slung building in Burbank, California, one recent morning, Jeff Hasler, a Gen-Xer who runs Original Productions, which makes documentary and unscripted programming, is holding a summit with his staff. The employees, younger than he by a decade or more, sit around folding tables, some wearing combat boots, others in hoodies, munching on sandwiches. They’re here to give their boss feedback. Why, they wonder, did Hasler feel the need to be at every pitch meeting? Could he please explain the chain of command? And what about that deal they were told to chase that was clearly never going to happen? “That was my mistake,” says Hasler, tapping his blue suede shoes. He looks pleadingly in the direction of a judicious-seeming woman with chunky tortoiseshell sunglasses on…

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY under Donald Trump is obsessed with crime. In its efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, it has cast Democratic victories as illegal and illegitimate. In order to win elections in the future, it has passed a slew of restrictive voting laws on the state level that characterize Democratic votes as fraudulent. And to conjure a climate of fear, it has depicted Democratic-controlled metropolises as being overrun by murderers and overwhelmed by violence. The GOP wants voters to see crime everywhere—at the ballot box, swallowing cities whole. Crime has long been a fruitful fixation for Republicans. From Richard Nixon to George H.W. Bush, “law and order” posturing from the right has sent Republicans to the White House and put Democrats on the defensive. Trump’s evocation of…

BY (FIRST ROW) Anastasiia Mokhina, Aleksey, Viktoriia Khutorna, Petro Chekal, and Nasta and Victor Dobrovolskyi, Anastasia Kovalchuk, Julia Berdiyarova, and Victoria Vlasenko. (THIRD ROW) Matsiiovskyi, and Yasia Myroshnychenko. (FOURTH ROW) Masha Varnas, Liana Muradian, Vova Prylutskyi, Leonid. (SECOND ROW) Daria Holovatenko, Danyil Zadorozhnyi, Mariia Shuvalova, Inna Zadorozhnaya, Anastasiia Viekua, Katya Vasiukova, Vika Zavhorodnia, Lisa Bukreyeva, Alexander, Roman Vydro, Markiian Yehor Shatailo, Polina Polikarpova, Lesyk Yakymchuk, Svyatoslav Fursin, and Sana Shahmuradova.…