From abortion to immigration, a long-debunked scientific movement still casts long, confusing shadows over our most fraught debates.
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Dispatch from Puerto Nowhere
Robert Lopez examines what it means to be an assimilated American from Puerto Rico, and what was gained and lost in the process.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Quotes
Teju Cole Delights in Sentence Fragments
“For me it’s about recognizing that great art comes in all kinds of forms.”
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes, Sports
Roger Federer Isn’t Stopping Any Time Soon
Federer is the oldest man to win a Wimbledon singles title in the Open Era, and he doesn’t appear to be slowing down.
Posted inBusiness, Business & Tech, Current Events, Media, Story, Uncategorized
Inauthentic Behavior
Facebook’s botched war against propaganda campaigns.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
Every Day I Write the Book
At 63, Michael Musto reveals how he keeps managing to add new chapters to the consistently unfolding story of his career.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
Every Day I Write the Book
At 63, Michael Musto reveals how he keeps managing to add new chapters to the consistently unfolding story of his career.
Posted inReading List, Sports
‘Pain is Weakness Leaving the Body’ and Other Lies I’ve Been Told: A Reading List on Mental Health and Sport
Jacqueline Alnes shares 10 pieces that examine sports and mental health.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Is ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ the Most Radical Show on TV?
In her first cover piece for the New York Times magazine, Jenna Wortham profiles RuPaul, making note of the ways in which he — and his 9-year-old reality competition TV show — have had to evolve along with shifting understandings of gender, and the politics around it.
Posted inArts & Culture, Current Events, Nonfiction, Story
‘We Are All Responsible’: How #MeToo Rejects the Bystander Effect
The classic “Bystander Effect” blames a lack of intervention on diffusion of responsibility. That doesn’t fly anymore.
