Features

Ford Country, Trump’s America

Can the jobs come back? Or will a self-driving car also put itself together? By Lisa Miller

What Happens When the Office Becomes a Nonstop Chat Room

Slack introduces a whole new kind of fun � and stress � into the workplace: employer-sanctioned social media. By Molly Fischer

What It’s Really Like to �

Try to keep stars solvent and nuclear-power plants from being hacked. The work diaries.

Intelligencer

The National Interest

Trump has sparked the biggest political crisis since Watergate.

Encounter

Eric Schneiderman, New York’s attorney general, whom some Democrats would love to see tackle Russia.

Power

Rupert Murdoch’s out-of-touch management of the disaster at Fox.

Games

Is baseball torturing its pitchers?

Reread: May 1, 1972

The nosiest issues New York ever published. The salaries issue was an absolute smash when it first arrived in the spring of 1972.

The Cut

Cool Girls

You know them when you see them.

Strategist

Best Bets

Custom couches, minimalist wall clocks, and a kids’ store from the Intermix team.

Look Book

The designer whose daughters dress him in Supreme.

The Dark Art of How (and When) to Buy an Airline Ticket

An everything guide, from miles-hacking to hunting for error fares.

The Restaurant Review

Ichimura raises its prices and loses some of its charm after declaring independence from brushstroke.

The Dish

Daily Provisions will be serving this custom-churned rye ice cream this summer.

The Underground Gourmet Digest

Introducing our slightly random, 100 percent subjective, thoroughly taste-tested, and meticulously ranked list of the very best new things to eat and drink right now.

Openings

With aRoqa, the chef-owner has cast off the shackles of culinary authenticity to fuse Indian and Western flavors and techniques.

Trendlet

How the shishito conquered New York.

Culture

All the Way Back

ABT principal David Hallberg’s injury led to an artistic rebirth.

The Last Moment of the Last Great Rock Band

How the Strokes came undone, in their own words.

So � Is Rock Dead?

No, it’s just better in Canada.

David Lynch Is Rolling Off a Log

The Twin Peaks creator would prefers to discuss Transcendental Meditation.

The Movie Review

Alien: Covenant is an origin story we might not have wanted.

The Movie Review

Snatched doesn’t know what to do with its premise or its stars.

The Book Review

Joshua Ferris’s parade of jerks.

To Do: May 17�May 31, 2017

Twenty-five things to see, hear, watch, and read.

Departments

Comments: Week of May 15, 2017

Readers sound off on Aziz Ansari, the new far right, and more.

The Approval Matrix: Week of May 15, 2017

Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.