New York Magazine
New York Magazine Rated Left in Jan. 2025 Independent Review
A Jan. 2025 Independent Review by an AllSides reviewer found strong left bias in New York Magazine. For example, the cover story, "The Cruel Kids' Table," which stated, "Among the young, confident, and casually cruel Trumpers who, after conquering Washington, have their sights set on America." By calling Trump supporters "cruel," New York displayed a subjective qualifying adjectives. New York Magazine showed a clear Left bias in story choice — one article called Trump's pardons "distracting;" another was titled, "Trump's Sneaky Opening Attack on Abortion Rights."
Cover stories in late 2024, around the time of Trump's election, typically had an anti-Trump bent and a bent against his adminstration. A piece about the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement was seen as analytical and containing subjective descriptions, though not overly negative; however, it was slanted against claims that flouride in water and seed oils are harmful, though it took a more sympathetic approach to concerns about food dyes. It did contain numerous source omissions, such as (emphasis ours): "RFK Jr. has also suggested that microplastics might have contributed to “gender confusion” among kids via endocrine disruptors, which scientists say is completely unfounded," and stating, "Most research has shown the opposite: The unsaturated fat commonly found in seed oils has been linked to lower risk of cardiovascular disease and cancer. Beef tallow, on the other hand, is primarily made up of saturated fat, which studies have shown increases the risk of cardiovascular disease." New York Magazine did not link to the studies or "most research."
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Left to right, President Trump, Igor Danchenko, and Christopher Steele. Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photos: Getty Images; AP/Shutterstock
Christopher Steele, the former MI6 spy who compiled the notorious dossier during the 2016 campaign alleging ties between Donald Trump and Russia, made a splash a few weeks back when he gave his first interview about it. Steele described his professionalism as an intelligence-gatherer to George Stephanopoulos of ABC News and then doubled down on some of the dossier’s most salacious allegations, asserting, among other things, that the infamous “pee tape” involving Trump may be still out there, just waiting to be found.
Since BuzzFeed published Steele’s reports in 2017, many of the dossier’s key claims have failed to materialize or have been shown to be false. But this week, it may have been dealt a death blow when the operative used by Steele to gather material for the dossier was indicted.
On Thursday, John Durham, the special counsel appointed to investigate the FBI’s probe into ties between Trump and Russia, charged operative Igor Danchenko with lying to the FBI about his work on the dossier and allegedly fabricating some information that appeared in it. A lawyer who represented Danchenko, a onetime analyst at the Brookings Institute, said at a court hearing that his client planned to enter a plea of not guilty but a judge told him to do so at a future arraignment. There is no question that Durham’s inquiry is viewed by some with suspicion. After all, he was appointed to his post by William Barr, Trump’s attorney general. And from the start, he seemed to tip his hand politically by publicly disagreeing with the finding by the Justice Department’s inspector general that the FBI had a legitimate basis to open an investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.