
I Spent My Life Consenting to Touch I Didn’t Want
A year of isolation made me consider all the casual, unwanted touch women endure — and why it’s so hard to refuse it.
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A year of isolation made me consider all the casual, unwanted touch women endure — and why it’s so hard to refuse it.
Melissa Febos New York Times Magazine Apr 2021 20min Permalink
Fred Rogers wasn’t just a brilliant educator and a profoundly moral person. He was an uncompromising artist.
Jeanne Marie Laskas New York Times Magazine Nov 2019 30min Permalink
How social media stars like Addison Rae gave the cosmetics industry a makeover.
Vanessa Grigoriadis New York Times Magazine Mar 2021 30min Permalink
What happens when we’re tracked everywhere we go?
Kashmir Hill New York Times Magazine Mar 2021 30min Permalink
The author teaches a college class about what it means to be white in America, but interrogating that question as a black woman in the real world is much harder to do.
Claudia Rankine New York Times Magazine Jul 2019 25min Permalink
When people ask what I like so much about being from the Midwest, I get to tell them: I know the architecture of the wind. I know the violence it blows in and out. I like to keep my survival as simple as I can.
Covid-19 has cemented the e-commerce giant’s hold on the economy — but it has also spurred employees all around the country to organize.
Erika Hayasaki New York Times Magazine Feb 2021 25min Permalink
Some teachers and students got sick. Principals had to improvise constantly. But it worked—mostly.
Susan Dominus New York Times Magazine Feb 2021 30min Permalink
He wants to save classics from whiteness. Can the field survive?
Rachel Poser New York Times Magazine Feb 2021 30min Permalink
What’s a typical immigrant story? In his new film, “Minari,” the “Walking Dead” star has his own to tell.
Could the pandemic teach us why our sense of smell matters?
Brooke Jarvis New York Times Magazine Jan 2021 35min Permalink
Thousands of patients report lingering symptoms. Can research into another mysterious syndrome help?
Using several email addresses and a lot of exclamation points, teenager Jonathan Lebed worked finance message boards in the morning before school and made almost a million bucks. Then he made the head of the S.E.C. look like a fool.
Michael Lewis New York Times Magazine Feb 2001 35min Permalink
It was a fraught, utterly uncharted presidential transition—four years ago, from Obama to Trump. It was a prelude for so much that followed.
Mattathias Schwartz New York Times Magazine Jan 2021 30min Permalink
Brian Kelly, The Points Guy, has created an empire dedicated to maximizing credit-card rewards and airline miles. What are they worth in a global pandemic — and why are they worth anything at all?
Jamie Lauren Keiles New York Times Magazine Jan 2021 35min Permalink
What will we lose when Najin and Fatu die?
Sam Anderson New York Times Magazine Jan 2021 30min Permalink
A cloud enthusiast becomes an advocate for a new type of cloud.
Jon Mooallem New York Times Magazine May 2016 20min Permalink
A growing body of research suggests that trees can communicate and cooperate in the wild.
Ferris Jabr New York Times Magazine Dec 2020 25min Permalink
A profile of YouTube yogi Adriene Mishler
For 10 years, Libre—an arm of the Koch family’s Americans for Prosperity—has been working to foster conservatism in Hispanic communities. Now, the group is going all-in on Georgia’s Senate runoffs.
Marcela Valdes New York Times Magazine Nov 2020 20min Permalink
As the country heads into a dangerous new phase of the pandemic, the government’s management of the P.P.E. crisis has left the private sector still straining to meet anticipated demand.
Doug Bock Clark New York Times Magazine Nov 2020 25min Permalink
Buford Highway, in suburban Atlanta, has long been a place where immigrant entrepreneurs could build businesses and get ahead. Not this year.
Matthew Shaer New York Times Magazine Nov 2020 30min Permalink
After 17 years, the author of the trilogy “His Dark Materials” carries on the story of one of literature’s most indelible heroines.
Sophie Elmhirst New York Times Magazine Oct 2017 10min Permalink
Dozens of military contractors, most of them Black, have been jailed in the emirate — some on trumped-up drug charges. Why has the American government failed to help them?
Doug Bock Clark New York Times Magazine Oct 2020 35min Permalink
A former inmate on justice, violence, and jail time.
Reginald Dwayne Betts New York Times Magazine Oct 2020 20min Permalink