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New Yorker staff writer, Vogue contributing editor, semi-pro eavesdropper, overcaffeinated earth child. Now writing THE PRIVATE ORDER for Penguin Press.
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The Strange Emptiness of the Crowded Governor’s Race in California

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By Nathan Heller Verified
| Portside
The Strange Emptiness of the Crowded Governor’s Race in California Published June 2, 2026 How many people want the second most powerful executive job in American politics? Does anybody? With the conclusion of Gavin Newsom’s final term as California governor this year, the seat, in this fall’s election, stands as open as a downtown parking spot. Passersby with timing and a certain derring-do have measured their odds and eyed their paths.
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The Strange Emptiness of the Crowded Governor’s Race in California

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By Nathan Heller Verified
| The New Yorker Verified
The culprit here is, partly, California’s “jungle” primary: an egalitarian-minded effort by which everybody sets out together, in one pool, and the top two vote-getters progress to the general election, regardless of the parties that they represent. The theory, when the system was established, by ballot, in 2010, was that it would reduce two-party polarization and encourage nuance.
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Inside the Otherworldly Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles

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By Nathan Heller Verified, Annie Leibovitz
| Vogue Verified
A long time ago, an avant-​garde filmmaker set out to make his third, and what he thought could be his last, commercial movie. His first attempt, a dystopian fantasy, had flopped. His second, a nostalgic portrait of Northern California teenagers in braided vignettes, had been an unexpected box office success. Its profits and good graces earned him license for a third try that (as he saw it) had a chance of flopping again.
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