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Aaron Gell

Stochastic cringe

This will sound weird but I want to talk to you directly, across time and space, conjure a kind of immediacy. This is words moving from my…

Mar 7, 2022

Mar 7, 2022

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A Global Pandemic Could Be the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Soho House

The private club chain was saddled with debt. Now it’s prepping for a hedonism boom—and plans to IPO

Mar 17, 2021

A Global Pandemic Could Be the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Soho House

Mar 17, 2021

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Should Trump Enablers Be Ostracized? We Asked an Actress on the Hollywood Blacklist

Lee Grant was shut out of work for 12 years—and she cautions against snubbing the president’s loyalists

Jan 19, 2021

Sidney Poitier comforting a distraught Lee Grant in a scene of In the Heat of the Night

Jan 19, 2021

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The Plot to Take Down Michael Tubbs

The young Black mayor of Stockton, California, was a progressive superstar. Then a feisty local blog decided he had to go.

Dec 9, 2020

The Plot to Take Down Michael Tubbs

Dec 9, 2020

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I Worked the Polls in Trump Country — and Left More Confused Than Ever

There aren’t a lot of Democrats up here, which is why I got the job

Nov 4, 2020

I Worked the Polls in Trump Country — and Left More Confused Than Ever

Nov 4, 2020

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How the Government Is Accelerating Its War On the Right to Protest

Our First Amendment right has been systematically dismantled — just when we might need it most

Oct 27, 2020

How the Government Is Accelerating Its War On the Right to Protest

Oct 27, 2020

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What happened when a small group of residents tried to bring a Black Lives Matter rally to Bethel…

Sep 9, 2020

Sep 9, 2020

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“We Don’t View You as Americans. That’s the Bottom Line”

A confrontation in Bethel, Ohio pitted neighbor against neighbor — and displayed the raw power of a social media flash mob

Jul 16, 2020

“We Don’t View You as Americans. That’s the Bottom Line”

Jul 16, 2020

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Unlucky Charms: The Rise and Fall of Billion-Dollar Jewelry Empire Alex and Ani

Astrology, private equity, a $1.1 billion gender discrimination lawsuit, and a precariously built bangle behemoth

Jul 8, 2020

Unlucky Charms: The Rise and Fall of Billion-Dollar Jewelry Empire Alex and Ani

Jul 8, 2020

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An Anti-Gay Crusader and Her Gay Son Were Making It Work. Then Came Trump.

A portrait of a modern family undone by the political zeitgeist

May 6, 2020

An Anti-Gay Crusader and Her Gay Son Were Making It Work. Then Came Trump.

May 6, 2020

Aaron Gell

Aaron Gell

Medium editor-at-large, with bylines in the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, the New York Times and numerous other publications. ¶ aarongell.com

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