The Drift is a magazine of culture and politics.
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"A kind of abdication"
In Issue Sixteen, Katie Way wrote about the lessons Zohran Mamdani might learn from how Bill de Blasio’s mayoralty was derailed by the New York Police Department — how, “faced with a blue wall of opposition to his reformist agenda, de Blasi...
Issue Seventeen release party tomorrow!
We’re excited to celebrate Issue Seventeen tomorrow at 7 p.m. at NeueHouse near Madison Square. The evening will kick off with short readings from issue contributors, followed by conversation and merriment. Print subscribers get in free; ot...
"Money is certainly a character"
In 2024, the writer Dur e Aziz Amna penned a Dispatch for The Drift about the colonial-era origins of the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan, reflecting on the destructive decisions whose repercussions reverberate to this day. Amna’s n...
Some godforsaken human pipe
To break up with a long-term partner is also, in most cases, to break up with their family — a source of grief or of relief or any number of other complicated emotions that our cultural scripts for relationships rarely make space for. Hanna...
Issue Seventeen launch party next week
We will be celebrating Issue Seventeen one week from Thursday, on May 14 at 7 p.m. at NeueHouse near Madison Square. We’ll kick off the festivities with short readings from issue contributors Emma Adler, Lily Gabaree, Ismail Ibrahim, Adam J...
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