Chris Stanton

New York

Original Armchair Critic. Copy Editor/Approval Matrix @nymag. Bylines: @vulture, @intelligencer, @curbed, @thecut, @theatlantic, etc.

Articles

The Approval Matrix: What’s New Fire Island Without George Santos?

1 month ago | nymag.com | Dominique Pariso |Chris Stanton

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The Approval Matrix: Astoria the Turkey Has the Right Idea

1 month ago | nymag.com | Dominique Pariso |Chris Stanton

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The Approval Matrix: Hit Us With the Torpedo Bat

2 months ago | nymag.com | Dominique Pariso |Chris Stanton

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The Confessions of Health-Insurance Executives

2 months ago | nymag.com | Chris Stanton

They call him an opportunist and a vulture who's capitalizing on a tragedy to promote his dangerous Medicare for All agenda. Over and over, they invoke his name alongside those of left-wingers the likes of Bernie Sanders. For the target of these attacks, Wendell Potter, it's a familiar playbook - after all, he helped write it. "I guess I should be flattered," he jokes.
The Approval Matrix: Closing Time for Winter, Nation

2 months ago | nymag.com | Dominique Pariso |Chris Stanton

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Tobias Jesso Jr. Recruited His Gardener for a New Solo Album

2 months ago | vulture.com | Chris Stanton

Jesso performing songs from Goon in 2015. In 2013, two years before he helped Adele write one of her biggest songs, Tobias Jesso Jr. was in his childhood bedroom in Vancouver uploading a self-recorded demo to YouTube. He was still reeling from a punishing streak of bad luck. After struggling for years to make it as a musician in Los Angeles, he went through a rough breakup, only to be hit by a car shortly after. A day later, he learned his mother had cancer. So Jesso moved back home.
Every Neil Young Lost Album, Ranked From Worst to Best

2 months ago | vulture.com | Chris Stanton

In the 2002 Neil Young biography Shakey, Young’s late friend and longtime producer David Briggs shared an insight into the singer’s prolific mid-’70s period that has since been enshrined in the halls of Neil lore. “He’d turn to me and go, ‘Guess I’ll turn on the tap’ — and then out came ‘Powderfinger,’ ‘Pocahontas,’ ‘Out of the Blue,’ and ‘Ride My Llama,’” Briggs said.
The Approval Matrix: Uptown Dorian Gray Fights Downtown Vanya

Mar 7, 2025 | nymag.com | Dominique Pariso |Chris Stanton

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The Approval Matrix: Barron’s Wishes

Feb 21, 2025 | nymag.com | Dominique Pariso |Chris Stanton

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Does J.D. Vance Have Anything to Do But Post?

Feb 10, 2025 | nymag.com | Chris Stanton

The comedian Mike Birbiglia once compared being a new father to being the vice-president of a family: "Huge title. No power. Also oversees Congress." Whether or not that's true of every family dynamic, it is certainly accurate about the realities of being vice-president of the United States - a largely ceremonial, often thankless role, except for when it comes time to cast a tie-breaking vote in the Senate.