May 2025

Op-ed: Why New York must invest in its immigrant workers

New York’s economy depends on immigrant workers. From hospitals to high-rises, foreign-born workers are filling urgent staffing gaps in critical industries like healthcare and construction, sectors already stretched thin by demographic shifts, aging populations, and a workforce that can’t keep up with demand.  Despite their essential contributions, we are underinvesting in these workers, leaving them […]

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At the Wallace Collection, Grayson Perry Topples the Affluent Class from Within

Grayson Perry in a white-walled gallery, including a golden sculpture of a knight riding a lion, a decorated ceramic vase, and a brightly colored framed textile piece on the wall.” width=”970″ height=”647″ data-caption=’Perry plays with the ascribed femininity of 18th-century French Rococo and the ascribed masculinity of arms and armor. <span class=”lazyload media-credit”>Cassandra Parsons</span>’> The

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Design, Comfort and Context: Mexico City’s Most Noteworthy Luxury Hotels

To understand Mexico City’s current hotel renaissance, you have to think in layers. This is a capital built not on erasure, but accumulation—Aztec causeways beneath colonial cathedrals beneath mid-century concrete beneath today’s experimental facades. Reinvention isn’t the exception here; it’s the default. And nowhere is that more apparent than in its hotel scene, where a

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Mark Zuckerberg Touts A.I. Business Messaging as Future Revenue Focus

Mark Zuckerberg wearing sunglasses” width=”970″ height=”738″ data-caption=’Mark Zuckerberg at The 11th Breakthrough Prize Ceremony held at Barker Hanger on April 05, 2025 in Santa Monica, California.  <span class=”media-credit”>Variety via Getty Images</span>’> Meta beat analyst expectations in the first quarter, reporting $42.3 billion in revenue, up 16 percent from the year prior, and $16.6 billion in

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Does ‘Thunderbolts’ Finally Solve the MCU’s Woman Problem?

For years, critics and fans have been denouncing the “woman problem” in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. From early on, the female characters have been ill-defined and sidelined by the more powerful male characters, despite efforts to fix that as the movies and TV series expanded with new characters and new storylines. The studio, helmed by

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GOP Plots Sneak Attack on the Obamacare Medicaid Expansion

Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images One of the most important games being played in Washington right now is the struggle by congressional Republicans to make Medicaid cuts to pay for Donald Trump’s legislative agenda while pretending they aren’t really Medicaid cuts. The arithmetic and politics of the “big, beautiful” budget-reconciliation bill that will deliver Trump’s tax

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Rent Guidelines Board endorses hike on stabilized leases in prelim vote

For about half of New York City apartments, rent may soon go up again. During a meeting Wednesday night to hold a preliminary vote, the city’s Rent Guidelines Board backed an increase for rent-stabilized apartments of 1.75% to 4.75% on one-year leases and 4.75% to 7.75% on two-year leases. The final maximum increase is subject

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At Maison Passerelle, Gregory Gourdet Rethinks French Dining by Confronting Its Colonial Past

Printemps, the decadent Parisian retailer doling out luxury garments and goods since 1865, has branded itself with the tagline, “not a department store.” In appointing Gregory Gourdet as culinary director of its first New York outpost at One Wall Street, the high-fashion hub ensures its new fine dining restaurant, Maison Passerelle, is “not just another

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Are Smoke and Lead Bad for You? Really, Who Can Say.

Photo: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images For over 50 years, a top environmental-science journal has been an influential clearinghouse for research on how pollutants like lead, forever chemicals, and polluted air impact our lives. But in the coming months, the journal, Environmental Health Perspectives, will indefinitely pause the publication of new research due to budget cuts at

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