Culture

For his first moments as the new mayor of New York City, Mamdani wore a jazzy tie made by a buzzy Indian designer.

W. David Marx’s Blank Space names the forces—including poptimism, edgelords, and the cult of the founder—that have stalled cultural reinvention over the last 25 years, and wonders what might make us create again.

Flaunting “traditional values” was once a winning strategy to gin up attention online, but being “trad” was never a true countercultural movement, argues the writer Katherine Dee. The real question is, can a counterculture be found online at all?

This spring, the 26-year-old Abugazaleh launched a primary campaign to unseat an 81-year-old Democratic congresswoman. Now she’s facing up to 15 years in federal prison after protesting ICE in her home state. “I think [the Trump] administration will face a lot more backlash than it expects,” she says, describing what she thinks comes next for the country.

David Osit, director of the new documentary Predators, on the hit ’00s show To Catch a Predator, the suicide of one of its targets, and the new generation of pedophile hunters on YouTube.

The HBO series is quietly becoming a paradise for actors from the likes of Stranger Things and Game of Thrones to shed their image and get wild.

Jason Bolden, who styled both the actor and director for the 2026 Golden Globes, tells GQ about the winking sartorial nods to Sinners, the vintage ice on Jordan’s wrist, and the Black icons who inspired the looks.

Fans once calculated that Bob Weir played around 4,500 shows with the Dead. One song, writes musician and critic Andy Cush, imbues the hard and lonely work of all that touring with elemental, almost mystical significance—and took the band to the outermost edges of improvisation.

Trae Young is the headliner in the recent Hawks-Wizards trade, but sharpshooter Corey Kispert is the best-dressed person in the deal.

A moving new ESPN documentary, Boo-Yah: A Portrait of Stuart Scott, captures the verve and swagger that made the late SportsCenter anchor one of the best to ever do it.

The Americans will be looking extra sharp in Milan and Cortina. "Everyone knows where we’re from when Team USA walks in,” snowboarder Red Gerard tells GQ.

Lando Norris, Max Verstappen, and Oscar Piastri all have a shot at winning—and they don’t necessarily need to come in first.