Micah Lasher, Child Magician
The race for New York’s Twelfth District keeps getting more interesting.
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IdeasMicah Lasher, Child MagicianThe race for New York’s Twelfth District keeps getting more interesting.By Joel SteinIllustration by Alisa Gao / The AtlanticApril 30, 2026, 7 AM ET ShareSave I’m meeting with Micah Lasher at a diner on the Upper West Side. The last time I saw him was also at an Upper West Side diner. That was 32 years ago. He was 12. I was 22. He was interviewing me for a job.Lasher is running for Congress in the June 23 Democratic primary for the smallest, richest, most educated district in the country, the one that Jerrold Nadler is leaving after 34 years. New York’s Twelfth District jaggedly stretches all the way across Manhattan from the top of Central Park down to 12th Street.
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