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May 18, 2015 Issue
Cover Story
Can Racism Be Stopped in the Third Grade?
Fieldston’s attempt to do so asks 8-year-olds to sort themselves by race. By Lisa Miller
On the Cover: Photograph by Bobby Doherty.
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Features
Tinderbox
Why do America’s riots so precisely mirror each other, generation after generation after generation? By Frank Rich
The Star on the Sidewalk
Arielle Holmes, the methadone starlet. By Amy Larocca
Boyhood
Who’s freaked out by a robot with an expanding brain? Jeopardy! champion Watson comes of age. By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
Intelligencer
The National Interest
With the Supreme Court decision looming, the right is rethinking its scorched-Earth approach to attacking Obamacare.
Urban Fauna: Coyotes
Wily in the city.
Tribes: Birders
In Prospect Park, 12 eyes are better than two.
108 Minutes With Astra Taylor
Indie rocker and post-Occupy standard-bearer.
Fame & Fortune
With Amal Clooney, we finally have the consummate feminist superhero. Let’s not ruin it.
The Cut
Girls in the Van
The most talented � and stylish � women making music this summer.
Strategist
Best Bets
Four squishy chairs; a sex shop with a Park Slope vibe.
The Look Book
The Cooper Union student in subtle protest garb.
Great Room
A young designer whose Upper East Side apartment is anything but fusty.
Tools of the Trade
In a quest for freshness, chefs have taken to milling their own flour.
The Urbanist’s Mumbai
Avant-garde caftans, brown-butter dosas, and exploring the city.
The Restaurant Review
Two (fashionable but under�whelming) Tex Mex joints.
The Dish
Dominique Ansel’s new tasting menu is all about firsts.
Hot Potato
Oiji brings Korean honey-butter chips to the East Village.
The Underground Gourmet Quick Bite
The Food Sermon puts a hybridized, healthful spin on Caribbean cuisine.
Culture
Yoko Ono Has Arrived
And she’s leaving the baggage behind.
God’s IMDB
Everyone who’s played Him (or Her).
Pop
Blur is back, with an album so good even Noel Gallagher likes it.
A CSI Postmortem
What was great about the gore.
The Book Review
Mislaid, The Wall Creeper, and Nell Zink’s myth.
The TV Review
Television’s plot mania.
The Movie Review
Tomorrowland is the most enchanting reactionary diatribe ever made.
To Do: May 20�June 3, 2015
Twenty-five things to see, hear, watch, and read.
Departments
Comments: Week of May 18, 2015
Readers sounds off on Anna Wintour, real-estate preservation, and more.
The Approval Matrix: Week of May 18, 2015
Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.
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