In late spring 2020, a source I knew to be reliable called me with a story. The Dutch government had hacked into Jared Kushner’s phone and monitored him as he accessed a Dubai-based bank account. What was odd, the source said, was that the money in the account—hundreds of millions

Charlie Engman has been photographing his parents since 2009. Photo: Charlie Engman for New York Magazine This article was featured in New York’s One Great Story newsletter. Sign up here. Once a week, Jim sits down with his phone, logs in to his mother’s Facebook account, and scrolls through her

A few months ago, Nathan Fielder’s publicist sent me an unexpected email: Would WIRED be interested in Fielder for a fall cover of our magazine? The answer, before we even got a reason, was yes. The reason, it turned out, was that Fielder would soon release a project that was

Credit...Ed Steed OpinionGuest Essay Credit...Ed Steed Listen · 16:48 min Oct. 18, 2026 Leer en español This fall, another cohort of ambitious young professionals has arrived at business schools around the world for two-year programs with price tags in the six figures. Their presence at some of the nicest and

The trouble with economists, Isabella Weber believes, is they do not behave like dentists. They obsess over ideological purity and are inflexible when searching for solutions, regardless of society’s symptoms. Dentists have no such pretensions – patients have little patience for dogma when in insufferable pain. John Maynard Keynes, Weber