reasons to love new york
Dec. 13, 2015
Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, and the Political Appeal of a New Yawk Accent “Americans have come to associate New Yorkers, and so New York accents, with saying what you mean, intense emotional talk, and not worrying too much about whom you offend.”
Baltimore After Freddie Gray A year after his death, murders in the city have soared, and the relationship between violence and policing has never been more complicated.
the sports section
Nov. 1, 2015
The Most Costly Error in World Series History? Some biased, somewhat depressed postgame thoughts.
the sports section
Oct. 31, 2015
Is It Over for the Mets? An unapologetically biased postgame debriefing.
the military
Oct. 19, 2015
The Drama of the Drone Papers A story about civilian casualties is also a story about the bureaucracy of secrecy. Which one will have more impact?
Rubio, Not Trump, Is Now the Defining Figure in the GOP Race He’s not the most bombastic candidate, but he’s the most talented.
early and often
Sept. 30, 2015
Rand Paul and the Fizzling of America’s Libertarian Moment It was overhyped from the start — but he certainly didn’t help.
early and often
Sept. 18, 2015
Donald Trump Is an Outrage Candidate for Good Times His remarkably modest promise is to replace one terrible set of elites with another, amazing one.
Marco Rubio Is a Candidate of the Future Trapped in a Party of the Past He is being cast as the Republicans’ dutiful son. It’s a losing spot for him — and the GOP as a whole.
Jeb Bush Is Still Searching for His Best Political Self His gaffes are overshadowing his strengths as a candidate. But even if he recovers, will there be a place for him in today’s Republican Party?
California Curbs Solitary: A New Era in Justice? Long-term isolation will no longer be used as a method of social control.
work stress
Aug. 19, 2015
The Real Reason People Find the Times ’ Amazon Story So Upsetting Judging workers by aggressively monitored internal data is a lot scarier than Jeff Bezos.
the justice system
Aug. 12, 2015
The Movement Against Solitary Confinement Slowly but surely, the focus of criminal-justice reform is turning away from capital punishment.
black lives matter
Aug. 11, 2015
The Hard Truths of Ta-Nehisi Coates After the dreams of Martin Luther King Jr. and the hopes of Barack Obama.
The Hard Truths of Ta-Nehisi Coates What comes after the dreams of Martin Luther King Jr. and the hopes of Barack Obama.
FIFA, Freddie Gray, and the New Power of the Prosecutor Marilyn Mosby and Loretta Lynch are not just indicting criminals: They’re trying to clean up corrupt cultures.
In Defense of the 1970s They’re still getting a bad rap, pace the Mad Men finale and Louis C.K.’s recent Saturday Night Live monologue. Here’s why that’s not fair.
What Happens When Watson the Jeopardy! Robot Grows Up? It was just 4 years old when it beat the show’s best human contestants. As it goes out into the world, how afraid of it should we be?
How Hillary’s Justice Speech Changes 2016 Race Her remarks were not just timely, but potentially game-changing.
letter from
Apr. 28, 2015
Last Night There Was a Riot in My Neighborhood Fewer neighborhoods had been destroyed than I expected. But the city still looks terrible.
Why Is Freddie Gray Dead? It may have less to do with villainy than tragedy, less to do with racism than race.
the outer boroughs
Apr. 16, 2015
What Is the Bronx, Anyway? New York’s most elusive borough lags far behind in the city’s identity sweepstakes. But why?
international affairs
Apr. 9, 2015
Why Iranians Were Dancing in the Streets Over the Nuclear Framework For some, it wasn’t a deal executed by distant men in suits, but liberation from a crippling sanctions regime.
left behind
Mar. 17, 2015
security state
Feb. 20, 2015
When Bad Cops Become Gitmo Torturers One man’s story shows how deep the link is between America’s police forces and the national security apparatus.
security state
Feb. 20, 2015
When Abuse from the Streets Reaches the Gates of Gitmo One man’s story shows how deep the link is between America’s police forces and the national security apparatus.
digital life
Jan. 30, 2015
Waze and the Politics of Public Spaces Is the technology you use exclusively a private concern when it helps you master the communal?
charlie hebdo
Jan. 14, 2015
Charlie Hebdo and the Shifting Nature of Islamic TerrorismThough Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has claimed responsibility for the Paris attacks, the threat of the indoctrinated individual now appears greater than that of formal groups.
new york’s finest
Jan. 7, 2015
How the NYPD Came to See Itself As Different From Those It Protects Cops suggest they’re under siege, despite evidence to the contrary.
Crime Has Changed. The NYPD Should Change, Too. The current post–Eric Garner, post-Ramos-and-Liu debate about the nature of crime represents a regression from larger trends.
Cuba and the Ghosts in America’s Backyard Resuming relations with Havana may be the first step toward real policy transformation toward Latin America.
radio vulture
Nov. 23, 2014
The Strange Intimacy of ‘Serial’ What gives the podcast’s storytellers, and its listeners, the right to parse through the very private details of other people’s lives?
Obama and the 6-Year Itch It’s not unusual for Americans to weary of the president in his second term. But rarely does the rejection happen so rapidly.
politics in the time of ebola
Oct. 27, 2014
Small-Scale Attacks by Self-Radicalized Terrorists Are the New Normal Incidents like the Ottawa parliament shootings have taken on scary inevitability.
inside the hot zone
Oct. 16, 2014
Ebola Is a Virus That Punishes False Confidence Taming it will require plenty of human humility.
The Fugitive in the Pennsylvania Woods How has the survivalist who shot two state troopers avoided capture during a month-long manhunt?
foreign affairs
Oct. 8, 2014
Can Americans Stomach Another ISIS Slaughter? Officials in the city of Kobani are warning of “5,000 dead within 24 or 36 hours.”
Drones and Everything After The flying, spying, killing machines that are turning humans into superheros.
The Inhuman Heroism of Health-Care Workers in the Ebola Zone The acts required to impose isolation on an infected population are brave and terrible.
sad scary things
Oct. 1, 2014
The Lessons of the Dallas Ebola Case Even the smallest mistakes by hospitals can have dire consequences.
Obama Stands Up to ISIS, Still Needs Allies If the U.S. wants to avoid sending troops into combat, it needs friends to do the fighting.
The Summer of 2014 and the Return of the Politics of Racism A shift in the attention of the American left, away from economic inequality.
Militarization: Liberals and Libertarians Agree It’s not the deepest problem that surfaced in Ferguson. But it’s actionable.
Ebola and the Brutal Necessity of Quarantine It is bracing to be reminded of what the fallback solution is when medicine cannot contain a disease.
Maybe Israel Isn’t Capable of Surgical Strikes The shelling of schools makes the IDF’s reputation for supreme precision seem increasingly undeserved.
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