The New York Times Magazine

For eight hours last fall, Paradise, California, became a zone at the limits of the American imagination—and a preview of the American future.

Battles have raged within the Trump administration over family separations, ICE raids and the president’s obsession with a wall. Together, they have remade homeland security.

“The running comment in our current political climate is that we all need to converse with people we don’t normally speak to, and though my husband is white, I found myself falling into easy banter with all kinds of strangers except white men. They rarely sought me out to shoot the breeze, and I did not seek them out. Maybe it was time to engage, even if my fantasies of these encounters seemed outlandish. I wanted to try.”

A leading Democratic candidate for President, Elizabeth Warren has serious plans to tackle income equality, corporate power, and a range of other issues working class Americans face today.

“It was the biggest disaster in the history of the music business — and almost nobody knew.”

“If the show goes well, maybe the audience sleeps a bit better. And maybe that’s all the show should be. I have said this before, but I know that when you’re laughing, you’re not afraid.”

Catch up with Brody, Heidi, and (most of) the rest — plus, somehow, Mischa Barton?

Jesse Barron goes to Huntsville, Alabama to tell a story of private equity, manufacturing, debt, and who ends up holding the bag.

A ranging, damning expose of unresolved sexual discrimination and harassment suits at Sterling Jewelers — and other popular jewelry chains under the Signet Jewelers Ltd. umbrella — following a two-year investigation.

Rachel Kushner profiles scholar and prison abolitionist Ruth Wilson Gilmore.