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New York Times Magazine

Best Article World

Inside the Fall of Kabul

Against all predictions, the Taliban took the Afghan capital in a matter of hours. This is the story of why and what came after, by a reporter and photographer who witnessed it all.

Matthieu Aikins New York Times Magazine Dec 2021 1h20min Permalink

Best Article

The Abortion I Didn’t Have

“I never thought about ending my pregnancy. Instead, at 19, I erased the future I had imagined for myself.”

Merritt Tierce New York Times Magazine Dec 2021 Permalink

How ‘Shadow’ Foster Care Is Tearing Families Apart

Across the country, an unregulated system is severing parents from children, who often end up abandoned by the agencies that are supposed to protect them.

Lizzie Presser New York Times Magazine Dec 2021 Permalink

Business

Waiting for Prosperity

How the real estate boom left Black neighborhoods behind.

Vanessa Gregory New York Times Magazine Nov 2021 30min Permalink

Business

Will Real Estate Ever Be Normal Again?

In Austin and cities around the country, prices are skyrocketing, forcing regular people to act like speculators. When will it end?

Francesca Mari New York Times Magazine Nov 2021 Permalink

The Emily Ratajkowski You’ll Never See

With her new book, the model tries to escape the oppressions of the male gaze. So our writer is keeping some of her secrets.

Andrea Long Chu New York Times Magazine Nov 2021 30min Permalink

Science Health

The Global Dream Lab

The pandemic offered an unprecedented opportunity for the researchers who study why and how we dream.

Brooke Jarvis New York Times Magazine Nov 2021 Permalink

Travel

I Fell in Love With Motorcycles. But Could I Ever Love Sturgis?

A New Yorker who started riding during the pandemic travels to the heart of biker culture.

Jamie Lauren Keiles New York Times Magazine Oct 2021 15min Permalink

Science

Fear in the Shallows

White sharks are hunting along Cape Cod’s beaches. What will it take to keep people safe?

C.J. Chivers New York Times Magazine Oct 2021 45min Permalink

Arts

Laurie Anderson Has a Message for Us Humans

For half a century, she has taken the things we know best— our bodies, our rituals, our nation — and shown us how strange they really are.

Sam Anderson New York Times Magazine Oct 2016 25min Permalink

The Myth of Asian American Identity

On those rare instances when I would think about having a child, I assumed her life would be less complicated than my own. The stubborn optimism of the immigrant dictates that while your own life often shows just how quickly things can get catastrophically worse, American progress remains immutable.

Jay Caspian Kang New York Times Magazine Oct 2021 30min Permalink

Arts

Who Is the Bad Art Friend?

Art often draws inspiration from life—but what happens when it’s your life?

Robert Kolker New York Times Magazine Oct 2021 30min Permalink

Best Article

When Dasani Left Home

What happens when trying to escape poverty means separating from your family at 13?

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Excerpted from “Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in an American City”

Andrea Elliott New York Times Magazine Sep 2021 45min Permalink

Sports Travel

I Had a Chance to Travel Anywhere. Why Did I Pick Spokane?

Increasingly worn down by the pandemic, a dad goes to a baseball game.

Jon Mooallem New York Times Magazine Sep 2021 Permalink

World

‘They Are Manufacturing Foreigners’

How India disenfranchises Muslims.

Siddhartha Deb New York Times Magazine Sep 2021 30min Permalink

Arts Music

Dancing Through New York in a Summer of Joy and Grief

During the brief moment when the pandemic was receding and we could be together again, all we wanted to do was move our bodies.

Carina del Valle Schorske New York Times Magazine Sep 2021 30min Permalink

Movies & TV

Norm Macdonald, Still in Search of the Perfect Joke

A profile of the comedian, who died Tuesday.

Dan Brooks New York Times Magazine Aug 2018 15min Permalink

The Tragedy of America’s Rural Schools

Outdated textbooks, not enough teachers, no ventilation — for millions of kids like Harvey Ellington, the public-education system has failed them their whole lives.

Casey Parks New York Times Magazine Sep 2021 40min Permalink

‘I Helped Destroy People’

Terry Albury, an idealistic F.B.I. agent, grew so disillusioned by the war on terror that he was willing to leak classified documents—and go to prison for doing it.

Janet Reitman New York Times Magazine Aug 2021 50min Permalink

Politics

He Was the ‘Perfect Villain’ for Voting Conspiracists

Eric Coomer had an election-security job at Dominion Voting Systems. He also had posted anti-Trump messages on Facebook. What happened next ruined his life.

Susan Dominus New York Times Magazine Aug 2021 40min Permalink

Best Article

My Mustache, My Self

“A quarantine facial-hair experiment led me to a deep consideration of my Blackness.”

Wesley Morris New York Times Magazine Oct 2020 20min Permalink

Business World Food

The Case of the Vanishing Jungle

It seemed like an easy crime to stop: protected Indonesian rainforest, cut for coffee farms. But a globalized economy can undermine even the best-laid plans.

Wyatt Williams New York Times Magazine Aug 2021 30min Permalink

World

Is Taiwan Next?

In Taipei, young people like Nancy Tao Chen Ying watched as the Hong Kong protests were brutally extinguished. Now they wonder what’s in their future.

Sarah A. Topol New York Times Magazine Aug 2021 50min Permalink

Movies & TV

Matt Damon’s Disappearing Acts

The enduring career of the megastar no one really knows.

David Marchese New York Times Magazine Jul 2021 30min Permalink

World Travel

Where Is Cuba Going?

A nation’s uncertain future.

John Jeremiah Sullivan New York Times Magazine Sep 2012 40min Permalink

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