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November 3, 2014

Cover Story

In Conversation With Jon Stewart

There’s nothing funny about The Daily Show host’s latest gig: directing a movie about torture. By Chris Smith

On the Cover: Photograph by Martin Schoeller for New York Magazine. Costume design by Tom Broecker.

Features

We Are the 20 Percent

Is it time to topple tipping?

By Adam Platt
Staring Into the Eye of Pony

It’s surprisingly easy to understand why grown men and preteen girls alike have become obsessed with the world of My Little Pony.

By Lisa Miller
The Pierre Omidyar Insurgency

The newly radicalized eBay founder hired Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, and a slew of the country’s most combative journalists.

By Andrew Rice

Intelligencer

Culture

The Cut

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Fall’s most surreal jewelry.

Departments

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