This Tom Hanks Story Will Help You Feel Less Bad
He’s just as nice as you think he is.
He’s just as nice as you think he is.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner New York Times Nov 2019 25min Permalink
A Swiss chateau. A Broadway musical all about her. And absolutely nothing she has to do.
Amanda Hess New York Times Sep 2019 20min Permalink
Newly unearthed documents reveal how an environmental-minded socialite became an ardent nativist whose money helped sow the seeds of the Trump anti-immigration agenda.
Nicholas Kulish, Mike McIntire New York Times Aug 2019 20min Permalink
Caleb Cain was a college dropout looking for direction. He turned to YouTube, where he was pulled into a world filled with conspiracy theories, misogyny and racism.
Kevin Roose New York Times Jun 2019 15min Permalink
Now Peter Max’s associates are trading lurid allegations of kidnapping, hired goons, attempted murder by Brazil nut and art fraud on the high seas.
Amy Chozick New York Times May 2019 20min Permalink
A migrant family takes a Greyhound across America.
Miriam Jordan New York Times May 2019 10min Permalink
A co-founder makes the case for government intervention.
Chris Hughes New York Times May 2019 25min Permalink
Inside the struggle to survive in a tiny Honduran neighborhood surrounded by competing gangs.
Azam Ahmed New York Times May 2019 25min Permalink
The biographer before the publication of “The Passage of Power.”
Charles McGrath New York Times Apr 2012 20min Permalink
An essay on why fear may be the only thing that saves humanity from climate change.
David Wallace-Wells New York Times Feb 2019 15min Permalink
From Driving Miss Daisy to Green Book.
Not knowing what these movies were “about” didn’t mean it wasn’t clear what they were about. They symbolize a style of American storytelling in which the wheels of interracial friendship are greased by employment, in which prolonged exposure to the black half of the duo enhances the humanity of his white, frequently racist counterpart. All the optimism of racial progress — from desegregation to integration to equality to something like true companionship — is stipulated by terms of service.
Wesley Morris New York Times Jan 2019 15min Permalink
An investigation.
Caity Weaver New York Times Dec 2018 15min Permalink
Who is the rightful inventor of the blockbuster swimsuit known as the Kiini?
Katherine Rosman New York Times Dec 2018 20min Permalink
Internal documents show that the social network gave Microsoft, Amazon, Spotify and others far greater access to people’s data than it has disclosed.
Gabriel J.X. Dance, Michael LaForgia, Nicholas Confessore New York Times Dec 2018 20min Permalink
The former first lady’s new memoir recounts her family’s trajectory from the Jim Crow South to Chicago’s South Side and her own improbable journey from there to the White House.
Isabel Wilkerson New York Times Dec 2018 20min Permalink
The actual story behind those viral college acceptance videos out of T.M. Landry.
Erica L. Green, Katie Benner New York Times Nov 2018 25min Permalink
An obituary.
Adam Nagourney New York Times Nov 2018 45min Permalink
Inside the maze of an Amazon scam storefront empire.
Jenny Odell New York Times Nov 2018 25min Permalink
On the lengths Mark Zuckberberg and Sheryl Sandberg have gone to protect their power.
Sheera Frenkel, Nicholas Confessore, Cecilia Kang, Matthew Rosenberg, Jack Nicas New York Times Nov 2018 25min Permalink
How an economic war has pushed millions to the brink of starvation.
Declan Walsh New York Times Oct 2018 25min Permalink
The President received at least $413 million in today’s dollars from his father’s real estate empire, much of it through tax dodges in the 1990s.
David Barstow, Susanne Craig, Russ Buettner New York Times Oct 2018 30min Permalink
On A Star Is Born and the celebrity industrial complex.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner New York Times Sep 2018 20min Permalink
For the past 16 months, he had worked as a mole, posing as a militant jihadist in the Islamic State while passing critical information to a secret branch of Iraq’s national intelligence agency. His record was stunning: He had foiled 30 planned vehicle-bomb attacks and 18 suicide bombers, according to Abu Ali al-Basri, the agency’s director. Captain Sudani also gave the agency a direct line to some of the Islamic State’s senior commanders in Mosul.
Margaret Coker New York Times Aug 2018 20min Permalink
Dick Cavett, the “last great intellectual talk-show host,” at 81.
Alex Williams New York Times Aug 2018 10min Permalink
Three days in Wyoming as the hip-hop firebrand tends to his scars.
Jon Caramanica New York Times Jun 2018 20min Permalink