Kathy Wylde, the longtime head of the Partnership for New York City, started her career as a community organizer — and has a message for today’s young socialists. @freedlander reports nym.ag/2UXpMYK
Once an activist, Wylde came to believe that true power lived not in City Hall but in penthouses on Fifth Avenue and in the private offices of the city’s biggest banks nym.ag/2UXpMYK
By the time Michael Bloomberg took office as mayor, Wylde, the onetime rabble-rouser for the working class, had become a spokeswoman for the interests of Wall Street nym.ag/2UXpMYK
Once a COVID-19 vaccine arrives, how might it be distributed? On "What Is Even Happening?" — our new video series attempting to untangle questions in the news — @MrJDWalsh spoke with vaccine expert @PeterHotez about what a rollout might look like
"I think you'll start seeing some vaccine released to selected populations by the early part of next year" if one is proven safe and effective, says @PeterHotez. A more significant release of vaccine to the general public could come in the second or third quarter of 2021.
Because some early vaccines will need to be kept frozen at -70 degrees Celsius, @PeterHotez says that "you're probably going to have to go through specially centers, and exactly how they're going to set that up and what the logistics are remain to be determined."
When does a model own her own image? @emrata writes on Richard Prince’s “Instagram Paintings,” which included a nude photograph of her body in profile that was taken for the cover of a magazine nym.ag/3mnbDjZ
.@emrata writes on photographer Jonathan Leder, who against her wishes has released multiple books of Polaroids he'd taken of her as part of a magazine shoot in 2012 nym.ag/3mnbDjZ
Popular YouTubers Myka and James Stauffer said they would love their adopted son unconditionally. So why did they give him away? @caitmosc reports nym.ag/2FAQjXm
In a video earlier this year, the Stauffers revealed that they had placed Huxley, their then almost 5-year-old autistic son from China — whose adoption process and life they had documented for more than three years — with “his now new forever family” nym.ag/2FAQjXm
In the kindest light, they were painted as well-meaning but naïve parents who'd gotten in over their heads; in the harshest, they were fame-hungry narcissists who’d exploited a child for clicks only to discard him when caring for him proved too difficult nym.ag/2FAQjXm
We asked @ProfEmilyOster— an economics professor at Brown University who specializes in data-driven approaches to decision-making — to help make sense of all the confusing and often contradictory coronavirus advice nym.ag/3eIF2jG
Oster consulted more than a dozen doctors and scientists to sort out the most logical, rational, simple guidance that science can offer for just about every virus-related question imaginable nym.ag/3eIF2jG
To illustrate our feature on vaping, we asked young photographers around the country — Jonas Bardin in New York, Violet Golden and Alisa Petrosova in L.A., and Kevin Jolley in Missouri — to document 18-to-23-year olds’ relationship with vaping nicotine nym.ag/37ZPAIm
“Most teens think they’re invincible and don’t understand or comprehend the consequences from it. And then some people do it because their friends do it. The cool appeal of it.”
Luke, 18, California
“I basically started when the whole vaping thing came out. All the stores started rolling in. There’s one on every corner, and they looked like candy stores.”