Tag: The New York Times

The bravest members of the Nigerian resistance are the teenage girls who refuse to become tools of terrorism.

This week, we’re sharing stories from Jane Mayer, David Zax, Christopher Glazek, Farah Stockman, and Alex Mar.

What do you do when you’ve only got a G.E.D and your high-paying union job goes to Mexico?

This week, we’re sharing stories from Ronan Farrow, Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor, Vivian Ho, Christopher Goffard, Kaitlyn Greenidge, and Alex Pappademas.

This week, we’re sharing stories from John Woodrow Cox, Danielle McNally, Matt Richtel and Andrew Jacobs, Michelle Dean, and John Knight.

The New York Times has standards. Its Op-Eds just don’t always have to meet them.

The first in a New York Times’ series about global obesity looks at the place of processed foods in Brazil.

The ex-convict, who became a history scholar behind bars, prepares to start classes at NYU instead.

This week, we’re sharing stories from Eli Hager, Bryan Curtis, Terry DeMio and Dan Horn, Alexander Nazaryan, and Ellie Shechet.

This week, we’re sharing stories from Steve Kolowich; Stephanie Clifford and Jessica Silver-Greenberg; Taffy Brodesser-Akner; Carolyn Murnick; and Jamie Lauren Keiles.

Fame turned the playwright into a “public Somebody” overnight — a crisis that landed him in the hospital.

The author sketches his way around Sifnos, capturing memories Moleskine notebook.

Jason Diamond road trips from Jacksonville to Key West trying to get a handle on the state where much of his family has settled.

Ev Williams admits that the internet is broken and suggests course corrections, apologizing for Twitter’s role in putting Trump in the White House.

This week, we’re sharing stories from Renee Montagne, Nina Martin, Alex Tizon, Mary Mann, Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, and Andy Newman.

This week we’re sharing stories by Caity Weaver, Matthew Desmond, Chris J. Rice, Kent Russell, and Rafe Bartholomew.

In dreams, everything looks familiar but wrong somehow. Here are six stories about what happens between sleep and wakefulness.

Alexander Chee didn’t realize that his boyfriend, M., was pretending to be someone content to be monogamous.

The New York Times correspondent tells the story behind the story to Columbia Journalism Review.

A vast range of political, historical, and religious influences went into Margaret Atwood’s dystopia, including one unexpected logo.

When Canadians privately sponsor a Syrian refugee family, the agreement lasts one year. What happens at month 13?

I was in the lobby of a theater in Washington, D.C. when I saw the first of the tweets about the Trump administration’s decision to stymie protections for transgender students on the federal level. It wasn’t until the play ended and I was on the Metro home that I had cell service; I began to piece together […]

Alex Vadukul tells the story of Brin­-Jonathan Butler, a successful boxing writer who’s extensively documented boxing in Cuba, only to become part of the story by teaching the sport in New York’s Central Park.

At The New York Times, Michiko Kakutani reports on how reading and writing helped President Obama to “slow down and get perspective” from novelists, memoirists, and historical figures during the eight years of his presidency.

In The New York Times Magazine, Jon Mooallem has a moving profile of doctor B.J. Miller, a triple amputee since an accident in his sophomore year of college, who’s now developing something he’s calling The Center for Dying and Living.

There are stories here about the Native-led protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline, folks standing up to Donald Trump and his white supremacist cronies, and prisoners striking against their miserable living conditions in a racist system.

Rafil Kroll-Zaidi writes about proxy services which help Western shoppers navigate the Japanese online marketplace and buy the goods retailers refuse to sell outside Japan.

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When “the big one” strikes California, the state isn’t going to fall into the Ocean the way so many Arizonans who want beachfront property like to imagine. But there are many ways to die. In The New York Times, author Daniel Duane writes about what he calls the Golden State’s “sense of unraveling” and its […]

“Halloween, All Saints’ and All Souls’ Days represent a friendly (if bony, skeletal) handshake between Paganism and Christianity.”