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Ryu Spaeth

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Features Editor, New York Magazine

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New York Magazine @nymag.com · 09/03/2026
In an economic environment in which the nature of work feels as if it’s about to change forever, we set out to survey New Yorkers about their paychecks. For our latest Cover Story, 60 people share how much they made last year: tinyurl.com/4re2kejx
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 20/02/2026
When I was in the inside, @charlottetklein.bsky.social’s coverage of WaPo was always the best-sourced and most accurate. Now that I’m on the outside, I trust this more than anything else. nymag.com/intelligence...
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How an Embittered Brit Decimated the Washington Post
Inside Will Lewis’s disastrous attempts to revitalize the paper.
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Sarah Scott Scire @sarahscire.com · 20/02/2026
must-read from @charlottetklein.bsky.social on the disastrous Will Lewis tenure at @washingtonpost.com nymag.com/intelligence...
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How an Embittered Brit Decimated the Washington Post
Inside Will Lewis’s disastrous attempts to revitalize the paper.
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Ryu Spaeth @ryuspaeth.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
“He had two settings: charming Brit and asshole Brit. And he quickly moved into the latter category." @charlottetklein.bsky.social with the essential deep dive on how Will Lewis gutted the Post: nymag.com/intelligence...
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How an Embittered Brit Decimated the Washington Post
Inside Will Lewis’s disastrous attempts to revitalize the paper.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Fantastic profile.
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Rebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Cannot believe that I got to profile an extraordinary filmmaker, who happens to be the mother of NYC’s new mayor, and think about intersections of art and politics, and how familial love might produce a buffer against the corrosive politics and cynicism of our time. My story about Mira Nair:
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What Mira Nair Taught Zohran Mamdani
The mayor’s famous filmmaker mother reveals the origins of his ferocious ambition.
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Ryu Spaeth @ryuspaeth.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
A terrific profile of Mira Nair by @rtraister.bsky.social that sheds so much light on Zohran's upbringing, including his more-fraught-than-previously-known college admissions process www.vulture.com/article/what...
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Ryu Spaeth @ryuspaeth.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
If you can't stop searching through the Epstein files, this one is for you: nymag.com/intelligence...
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How the Epstein Files Turned Everyone Into Conspiracists
It turns out we really are governed by an overclass of degenerate elites. And now anyone can investigate them.
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Jake Lahut @jakelahut.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
“Look, when I worked for her, our poor scheduler was getting calls at two o’clock in the morning to come bring her bottles of tequila,”a former staffer claimed of incidents they recalled going back to 2021. nymag.com/intelligence...
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Nancy Mace Is Not Okay
“Something’s broken. The motherboard’s fried. We’re short-circuiting somewhere.”
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Charlotte Klein @charlottetklein.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
“What’s the plan after this?” a former Post reporter wondered. “You cut however many hundreds of people to solve the fact that you’re still losing lots of money. Then what?” nymag.com/intelligence...
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Inside the Washington Post’s Existential Meltdown
“There’s no vision for why it should exist.”
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Ryu Spaeth @ryuspaeth.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I wrote about one of my favorite directors and his recent run of poor form: www.vulture.com/article/noah...
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Did Success Spoil Noah Baumbach?
The director is at his best when he’s depicting men who resent the world for not recognizing their genius.
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Ryu Spaeth @ryuspaeth.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
A truly remarkable window into an American presidency: nymag.com/intelligence...
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‘The Superhuman President’
A good-faith attempt to ascertain the truth about Donald Trump’s health.
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Kerry Howley @kerryhowley.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
I wrote about Minneapolis. nymag.com/intelligence...
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The People vs. ICE
Renee Good’s death galvanized a city eager to push back against Trump’s invasion.
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Ryu Spaeth @ryuspaeth.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
“The Groypers are, you know, I mean, they’re a lot like me" — just one of many college conservatives @svzwood.bsky.social interviewed in this eye-opening tour of the post-Charlie Kirk world: nymag.com/intelligence...
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The Takeover of Kirk Country
How the dark forces of conspiracism remade MAGA’s youth movement.
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Reeves Wiedeman @reeveswiedeman.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Wrote about the Ellisons attempted takeover of Hollywood for the new cover of @nymag.com
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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
This is so good
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Ryu Spaeth @ryuspaeth.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Great entertainment from start to finish in this portrait of a family with severe daddy issues, by @reeveswiedeman.bsky.social www.vulture.com/article/larr...
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The Son King of Hollywood
With help from his billionaire father, Larry, David Ellison is trying to become the biggest studio mogul in history.
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New York Magazine @nymag.com · 29/12/2025
Zohran Mamdani is a brilliant political talent with dizzying ambitions to change New York City as its new mayor. Is he ready for the actual job, though?
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The Making of Mayor Mamdani
Zohran Mamdani is a brilliant political talent with dizzying ambitions to change New York City as its new mayor. Is he ready for the actual job, though?
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Max Read @maxread.info · 16/12/2025
if you were an okay hang with an ivy league degree in LA in the past decade you could get in a room for a "funny" netflix adult animated show about trauma and healing or whatever. if you were a GREAT hang with an ivy league degree in LA you could get david ellison to buy your substack for $150m
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Bari Weiss in Wonderland
Her exile in Hollywood paved the way for a triumphant return to New York.
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Ryu Spaeth @ryuspaeth.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
"Chris Pine is there, and Bob Iger is there, and all of these A-list writers who’ve won Oscars. And all anyone wants to do is talk to Bari Weiss." @charlottetklein.bsky.social on Bari Weiss's Hollywood-fueled comeback: nymag.com/intelligence...
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Bari Weiss In Wonderland
Her exile in Hollywood paved the way for a triumphant return to New York.
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New York Magazine @nymag.com · 15/12/2025
Here’s to never knowing who you'll run into on the subway — and to #ReasonstoLoveNewYork, our 21st annual reminder of why (rent hikes, rat kings, and all) we wouldn’t want to live anywhere else. www.curbed.com/article/reas...
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Mohammed R. Mhawish @mohamhawish.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
I spent sixteen months reporting this story. It follows how surveillance tech is rewriting Gaza in real time — and what it’s doing to the people inside it. Reported in partnership with @justvision.org's Palestine Reporting Lab and published in @nymag.com
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Watched, Tracked, and Targeted in Gaza
Life under Israel’s all-encompassing surveillance regime.
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New York Magazine @nymag.com · 04/12/2025
Elder millennials have gotten away with seeming young for a long time, but research shows that aging catches up with us at distinct moments — the first comes at 44.
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Falling Off the Aging Cliff at 44
Elder millennials have gotten away with seeming young for a long time, but research shows that aging catches up with us at distinct moments — the first comes at 44.
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Ryu Spaeth @ryuspaeth.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
"This is the dystopian consequence of technology, supplied in part by American companies, being placed into the hands of authorities who have virtually unlimited control over a captive population they have openly villainized." By @mohamhawish.bsky.social in @nymag.com nymag.com/intelligence...
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Watched, Tracked, and Targeted in Gaza
Life under Israel’s all-encompassing surveillance regime.
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Rebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Wrote about the backlash to the backlash to the backlash to the backlash there are no waves we are swimming through circular currents and why we’re not on the Faludi style backlash of the right (& center and left’s) dreams: www.thecut.com/article/why-...
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Me Too Forever
Why the backlash was so short-lived.
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Ryu Spaeth @ryuspaeth.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
"Readers will recognize in this version of Epstein not the sociopathic blackmail artist he is rumored to have been but a more quotidian figure: the nerd whom other nerds regard as cool." nymag.com/intelligence...
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Jeffrey Epstein, King of the Dweebs
Why did so many powerful nerds see the pedophile financier as cool?
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Ryu Spaeth @ryuspaeth.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
The @nymag.com annual Power Issue is devoted to the Democrats, who, yes, do not have much power at all, but that's what makes them so interesting! Everything is up for grabs. First up is Simon van Zuylen-Wood on the Bernie Bros v the Abundance Bros: nymag.com/intelligence...
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Socialism or Abundance?
Two visions fight for the Democratic Party’s soul as it searches for purpose, direction, and a modicum of popularity.
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Ryu Spaeth @ryuspaeth.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
In the latest issue of @nymag.com I wrote about being a parent in the age of Six Seven www.thecut.com/article/what...
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The ‘Six Seven’ Panic
Adolescent slang has always been impenetrable to adults. That’s the point.
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Ryu Spaeth @ryuspaeth.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
This story from the archives on the War at Zabar's is so good: www.grubstreet.com/article/zaba...
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The War at Zabar’s
Can three feuding partners ruin the world’s greatest deli?
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
my word nymag.com/intelligence...
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Who Really Runs DHS?
Kristi Noem is the face of Trump’s police state. Corey Lewandowski is the muscle.
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Ryu Spaeth @ryuspaeth.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
So many crazy details in Ben Terris's story about Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski, who we can confirm are not only dating but running DHS together: nymag.com/intelligence...
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Who Really Runs DHS?
Kristi Noem is the face of Trump’s police state. Corey Lewandowski is the muscle.
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Ryu Spaeth @ryuspaeth.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
The final scene in this profile of Vivian Wilson by @brockcolyar.bsky.social is so good! www.thecut.com/article/vivi...
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The Nearly Normal Young Adulthood of Vivian Wilson
Her father is the richest man alive with an anti-trans vendetta. She’s still figuring out what she wants to do.
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Ryu Spaeth @ryuspaeth.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
For my first ever byline at @thecut.com I profiled Andrew Garfield about his new role as bad boy/villain in After the Hunt: www.thecut.com/article/andr...
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The Temptations of Andrew Garfield
After years of playing the hero, the actor steps into the role of villain in After the Hunt.
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Ryu Spaeth @ryuspaeth.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Some terrific writing and reporting here from @reeveswiedeman.bsky.social on the Kennedys as they watch RFK Jr (with Trump's assistance) dismantle their legacy: nymag.com/intelligence...
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Hijacking the Kennedys
Only one cousin is in a position of power — and his family can only watch helplessly as he destroys much that they stood for.
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Ryu Spaeth @ryuspaeth.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
An excerpt from Giri Nathan's terrific new book up at New York magazine today @girinathan.bsky.social : nymag.com/intelligence...
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Are Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz Friends?
Inside the rivalry that has already defined a new generation of tennis.
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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Nearly every third sentence in this story left me stunned. nymag.com/intelligence...
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The Crypto Maniacs and the Torture Townhouse
How two men charged with an outrageous kidnapping scheme introduced a new kind of crime to the city.
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Charlotte Klein @charlottetklein.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
A Food52 executive stole hundreds of thousands of dollars for luxury clothing and travel. And she put it all on Instagram! www.thecut.com/article/food...
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The Food52 Executive Who Used the Company Credit Card for Everything
Shannon Muldoon, 38, stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from her employer for clothes and travel.
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Charlotte Klein @charlottetklein.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
More chaos at the Washington Post, as several newsroom leaders take buyouts and the new Opinion editor seems determined to clean house nymag.com/intelligence...
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Things Are Somehow Getting Worse for the Washington Post
A raft of buyouts and multiple ongoing shake-ups have left staff despondent and unsure about the future.
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Choire @choire.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Well they did it. www.thecut.com/article/mens...
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Beware ‘Summer Long Balls’
Men with swollen scrotums are walking among us.
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Ryu Spaeth @ryuspaeth.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
A delightful dispatch from Up North by @svzwood.bsky.social, featuring a whole country raging mad at the people Down South (that's us): nymag.com/intelligence...
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You Have No Idea How Furious the Canadians Are
There’s nothing like a common enemy to make a country come together.
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
"Nearly 70 percent of Democrats now have an unfavorable view of Israel, according to Pew. Yet Democratic officials carry on as if full-throated support for Israel were party doctrine," writes @ryuspaeth.bsky.social. nymag.com/intelligence...
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Israel Was Supposed to Sink Zohran Mamdani
Will the Democratic Party absorb the lesson?
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Ryu Spaeth @ryuspaeth.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
So many great/horrific details in this dispatch from Kyoto by @reeveswiedeman.bsky.social nymag.com/intelligence...
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Reyhan Harmanci @harmancipants.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
This story names something that had been really bothering me: public opinion, shaped by irrefutable, horrific, daily reporting by people in Gaza, turned against Israeli government years ago. Polls have shown this consistently. Why do Dems ignore their voters on this? nymag.com/intelligence...
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Israel Was Supposed to Sink Zohran Mamdani
Will the Democratic Party absorb the lesson?
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Ryu Spaeth @ryuspaeth.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Our cover this week is of course Zohran. I wrote about the Democratic Party’s utter inability to reckon with the fact that their voters oppose the war in Gaza nymag.com/intelligence...
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Israel Was Supposed to Sink Zohran Mamdani
Will the Democratic Party absorb the lesson?
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Charlotte Klein @charlottetklein.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
The Atlantic — which added ~100,000 new subscribers in the single week after breaking the Signal story — has been on a very expensive hiring spree: nymag.com/intelligence...
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Are You a $300,000 Writer?
Inside The Atlantic’s extremely expensive hiring spree.
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Reyhan Harmanci @harmancipants.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Suzy Hansen stares into the abyss. The reckoning we need. nymag.com/intelligence...
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Israel’s Crimes of the Century
How Israel, with the help of the U.S., broke not only Gaza but the foundations of humanitarian law.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
"In its annihilative force and ambition, the Israeli campaign is unique among modern conflicts. In fact, the term 'war crime' is not even adequate for what's happening in Gaza." A searing, essential piece by Suzy Hansen:
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Israel’s Crimes of the Century
How Israel, with the help of the U.S., broke not only Gaza but the foundations of humanitarian law.
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