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CULTURE, POLITICS, FOOD, FASHION: A NEW YORK POINT OF VIEW. With assertive reporting and sophisticated design, New York chronicles the people and events that shape the city that shapes the world.

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The Inside Game: Gabriel Debenedetti • Who Can Make Joe Go? Democrats stared into the debate abyss. Now they ask if he’s a lost cause.

Neighborhood News: The Citi Bike Juice Crews • The docks don’t charge e-bikes (yet). These folks do.

172 MINUTES WITH … Jon Lovett • The podcast host doesn’t seem particularly comfortable with being a public figure. So why did he go on Survivor ?

Games: Olivia Craighead • Are Olympians Going to Swim in Poop Water? The world’s best athletes, ancient sewers, and the Seine.

Hush-Hush Affair • Love and other negotiations in the time of the NDA.

MY “DIFFICULT CHARACTER” • By age 43, I’d come up with many explanations for my perpetual strangeness with other people. Then the autism diagnosis arrived.

The WEIGHT of a BOEING 787 • Mitch Barnett spent years fighting one of the world’s largest aircraft manufacturers. It cost him his life.

An Uncomplicated Baby Carrier

Best Bets • a collection of expert-vetted, spotted-around-town, or otherwise just especially excellent products that recently appeared on thestrategist.com. To shop all these items—plus the baby carrier—in one place, scan the QR code.

How to Store Toilet Paper and Paper Towels, According to an Organizer

The Best Sandals for Summer • AS THE STRATEGIST’S resident style writer, I’m rather obsessive and opinionated about what makes for a great sandal. Often, the ones that look best leave blisters while the most comfortable options are unattractive. I asked people with admirable taste for suggestions.

Julep Cups Make the Ideal Wedding Present

I Can’t Get Through the Summer Without This Mosquito-Bite Ointment

The Best FACIALISTS • TO FIND THE places on this list, we polled dozens of savvy New Yorkers—a makeup artist, a stylist, and a songwriter among them. For more obsessively sourced recommendations, including the best art hangers and plumbers, visit curbed.com.

Brooklyn Prep’s Prom • The high school’s senior class (and one precious junior) celebrated at Russo’s on the Bay in Queens with steak dinners and dancing.

The Shrimp Show • San Sabino makes maximalist seafood for the social-media age.

Eel Bar Is Already a Scene • The Cervo’s team expands a few blocks north.

The Next Shishito? • Jimmy Nardello peppers, long beloved by chefs, are set to break out.

The Hidden Dutch Colonial • When Nicholas Howey and his late husband, Gerard Widdershoven, bought this 1925 house tucked away behind the hedges in Bridgehampton, they did little more than paint it—and fill it with art.

The Empty Seat • At Paris Couture Week, one question was on everyone’s lips: Who will lead Chanel?

The Renegade • June Squibb has the perfect first lead role: a granny gone rogue.

Faust Goes to Fidi • The producers of Sleep No More are back with the whirlwind immersive-theater project Life and Trust.

No Man’s Land • Rachel Cusk’s gender fundamentalism fully surfaces in her latest novel, Parade.

What Did Brooklyn Bridge Park Get So Right? • Nearly 20 years after we broke ground, it’s more impressive than ever.

CRITICS • Sara Holdren on Cats: “The Jellicle Ball” … Craig Jenkins on Camila Cabello’s C,XOXO … Emma Alpern on Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s Long Island Compromise.

To Do • Twenty-five things to see, hear, watch, and read. JULY 3–17

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THE APPROVAL MATRIX • Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.