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New York Times Magazine

Best Article Sex Health

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.

Melissa Febos New York Times Magazine Apr 2021 20min Permalink

Movies & TV

The Mister Rogers No One Saw

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

Business Tech Media

The Beauty of 78.5 Million Followers

How social media stars like Addison Rae gave the cosmetics industry a makeover.

Vanessa Grigoriadis New York Times Magazine Mar 2021 30min Permalink

Tech

Your Face Is Not Your Own

What happens when we’re tracked everywhere we go?

Kashmir Hill New York Times Magazine Mar 2021 30min Permalink

Best Article

I Wanted to Know What White Men Thought About Their Privilege. So I Asked.

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

A World of Black Intimacy at the Card Table

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.

Hanif Abdurraqib New York Times Magazine Feb 2021 Permalink

Business

Amazon’s Great Labor Awakening

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

Health

Rhode Island Kept Its Schools Open. This Is What Happened.

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

History

The Iconoclast

He wants to save classics from whiteness. Can the field survive?

Rachel Poser New York Times Magazine Feb 2021 30min Permalink

Movies & TV

The Many Lives of Steven Yeun

What’s a typical immigrant story? In his new film, “Minari,” the “Walking Dead” star has his own to tell.

Jay Caspian Kang New York Times Magazine Feb 2021 Permalink

Best Article Science Health

The Forgotten Sense

Could the pandemic teach us why our sense of smell matters?

Brooke Jarvis New York Times Magazine Jan 2021 35min Permalink

Science Health

What If You Never Get Better From Covid-19?

Thousands of patients report lingering symptoms. Can research into another mysterious syndrome help?

Moises Velasquez-Manoff New York Times Magazine Jan 2021 Permalink

Best Article Business

Stock Manipulator, S.E.C. Nemesis—and 15

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.

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Previously: Michael Lewis on the Longform Podcast

Michael Lewis New York Times Magazine Feb 2001 35min Permalink

Politics

The Last Handoff

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

Business Travel

The Man Who Turned Credit-Card Points Into an Empire

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

Science

The Last Two Northern White Rhinos On Earth

What will we lose when Najin and Fatu die?

Sam Anderson New York Times Magazine Jan 2021 30min Permalink

Science

The Amateur Cloud Society That (Sort Of) Rattled the Scientific Community

A cloud enthusiast becomes an advocate for a new type of cloud.

Jon Mooallem New York Times Magazine May 2016 20min Permalink

Science

The Social Life of Forests

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

Health Media

The Reigning Queen of Pandemic Yoga

A profile of YouTube yogi Adriene Mishler

Molly Young New York Times Magazine Permalink

Politics

The Fight to Win Latino Voters for the G.O.P.

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

Business Health

Inside the Chaotic, Cutthroat Gray Market for N95 Masks

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

Business

When the Virus Came for the American Dream

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

Philip Pullman Returns to His Fantasy World

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

World

Arrested, Tortured, Imprisoned: The U.S. Contractors Abandoned in Kuwait

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

Crime Politics

Kamala Harris, Mass Incarceration, and Me

A former inmate on justice, violence, and jail time.

Reginald Dwayne Betts New York Times Magazine Oct 2020 20min Permalink

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