Features
Electing the first black president was supposed to show that Americans had evolved on the issue of race. Bruce Norris’s stunning play Clybourne Park acknowledges that we have—but not in a way that’s likely to make anyone proud. By Frank Rich
Add a freakishly balmy winter to a sewer system full of standing water and you very well might get the prime conditions for out-of-control mosquito breeding. This summer, consider packing a little extra DEET. By Robert Sullivan
When the Michigan governor ran for the Republican nomination, he believed that his deep faith in the institutions of American life would be enough to beat back his party’s radical wing. He was badly mistaken. By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
Intelligencer
Obsessive blogger and coach Chris O’Leary breaks down the evolution.
Dubious horse-race numbers point to real problems for Dems.
How London bankers learned to gamble.
Our roundup of news from around the city.
Preempting the paparazzi.
Talking the politics of style at teatime with the designer, fashion magnate, and new Costume Institute honoree.
Strategist
Modular plants, a three-in-one bike, and more new stuff in New York stores.
“I think in life you kind of attract what you are, so I have a pretty amazing practice full of awesome people.”
Open-weave knits are a surfer thing, but they’re also very helpful in a spring that can’t make up its mind.
Alex Raij and Eder Montero bring Manhattan-style tapas to Cobble Hill.
However you classify rhubarb, it’s a much-loved ingredient in the fruit fool.
Mile End Sandwich asks its customers to stand up while chowing down.
A real-time assessment of the local drinking universe.
Culture
From bowling-alley waitress to romantic lead in the roll of an eye.
Ben Stiller, “Walter Mitty,” and a Sunday in New York.
Wes Anderson returns with Moonrise Kingdom, his most stylized diorama yet.
A diagnosis and, just maybe, a treatment.
City Opera may have secured its immediate future. But does it matter?
Agenda
Potlikker is devoted to decidedly American fare, often with what Liza Queen calls “rural and working-class roots.”
Departments
Readers sound off on TV upfronts, Patrice O’Neal, and more.
Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.
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