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Publications

The New York Times Magazine

Business Science

Climate Change Could Destroy His Home in Peru. So He Sued an Energy Company in Germany.

Local communities are taking the world’s largest polluters to court. And they’re using the legal strategy that got tobacco companies to pay up.

Brooke Jarvis The New York Times Magazine Apr 2019 20min Permalink

History World

The Epic Hunt for a Lost World War II Aircraft Carrier

In 1942, a volley of torpedoes sent the U.S.S. Wasp to the bottom of the Pacific. Earlier this year, a team of wreck hunters set out to find it.

Ed Caesar The New York Times Magazine Mar 2019 35min Permalink

Politics

The Messenger

Mike Pompeo’s mission: clean up Trump’s messes.

Mattathias Schwartz The New York Times Magazine Mar 2019 25min Permalink

Business

Open Office

What happens when people who have trouble fitting into a traditional workplace get one designed just for them?

Susan Dominus The New York Times Magazine Feb 2019 30min Permalink

History Tech

The Secret History of Women in Coding

Computer programming once had much better gender balance than it does today. What went wrong?

Clive Thompson The New York Times Magazine Feb 2019 35min Permalink

Crime

It Looked Like Another Kremlin Assassination. Was It?

"It is one thing for you to get a correct image, and it is another thing for me to spoil my life."

Sarah A. Topol The New York Times Magazine Feb 2019 30min Permalink

Crime

How Cities Make Money by Fining the Poor

In many parts of America, like Corinth, Miss., judges are locking up defendants who can’t pay—sometimes for months at a time.

Matthew Shaer The New York Times Magazine Jan 2019 25min Permalink

World

What Driving Can Teach Us About Living

How we respond to the rules of the road offers insight into being human.

Rachel Cusk The New York Times Magazine Jan 2019 30min Permalink

The Warhead and the Well

Tracing an airstrike halfway around the world back to an American bomb factory.

Jeffrey E. Stern The New York Times Magazine Dec 2018 30min Permalink

Jonathan Franzen Is Fine with All of It

He wants you to know one thing: He’s not even angry.

Taffy Brodesser-Akner The New York Times Magazine Jun 2018 20min Permalink

Sports

The Unabashed Beauty of Jason Brown on Ice

Can artistry trump athleticism in figure skating?

Patricia Lockwood The New York Times Magazine Feb 2018 10min Permalink

Tech

Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble

Can blockchain create a new, better internet?

Steven Johnson The New York Times Magazine Jan 2018 20min Permalink

Politics

What (if Anything) Does Carter Page Know?

A profile of the irrepressible Trump campaign foreign-policy adviser.

Jason Zengerle The New York Times Magazine Dec 2017 15min Permalink

Movies & TV

Rachel Brosnahan’s Comic Timing

Can the star of ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ help reclaim women’s place in stand-up history?

Rachel Syme The New York Times Magazine Nov 2017 Permalink

Best Article

The Fighter

A U.S. Marine’s journey from the Afghan war to an Illinois prison.

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Winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing.

C.J. Chivers The New York Times Magazine Dec 2016 1h10min Permalink

History Politics

The End of the Anglo-American Order

For decades, the United States and Britain’s vision of democracy and freedom defined the postwar world. What will happen in an age of Donald Trump and Nigel Farage?

Ian Buruma The New York Times Magazine Nov 2016 20min Permalink

Best Article Arts

The Mysterious Metamorphosis of Chuck Close

The legendary artist has radically upended his distinctive style of portraiture—and his entire life. Why?

Wil S. Hylton The New York Times Magazine Jul 2016 30min Permalink

Media

Terry Gross and the Art of Opening Up

What the Fresh Air host has learned after 13,000 interviews.

Susan Burton The New York Times Magazine Oct 2015 20min Permalink

Arts Music

The Stranger

On Billy Joel’s sardonic gloom.

Chuck Klosterman The New York Times Magazine Sep 2002 Permalink

Arts

Lena Dunham is Not Done Confessing

On the writer’s new book and tell-all style.

Meghan Daum The New York Times Magazine Sep 2014 15min Permalink

Science

Power Steer

Raising a cow on an industrial feedlot.

Michael Pollan The New York Times Magazine Mar 2002 Permalink

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