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  1. chapters
    This Is Where Our Game BeganBaseball is the American pastoral sport, you say? Tell it to the New Yorkers who created it.
    By Kevin Baker
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    Over Three Decades, Tech Obliterated MediaKara Swisher’s front-row seat to a slow-moving catastrophe.
    By Kara Swisher
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    The Busiest Basement in Jackson HeightsThe pandemic turned Nuala O’Doherty-Naranjo into an activist. Then the migrant crisis arrived.
    By Eric Klinenberg
  4. first person
    Donald Trump Assaulted Me, But He’s Not Alone on My List of Hideous Men“I made a list of hideous men in my life. It includes the president — who assaulted me in the dressing room of Bergdorf Goodman 23 years ago.”
    By E. Jean Carroll
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    ‘Ray, This Is a Religion’How the world’s largest hedge fund lost two top hires — and was paralyzed by puddles of pee.
    By Rob Copeland
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    How Rupert Murdoch Decided to Dump Tucker CarlsonThe 92-year-old media baron was fond of the Fox News host — but Donald Trump complicates everything.
    By Michael Wolff
  7. the money game
    That’s What I Call PonzinomicsWith Sam Bankman-Fried, Gisele, and a credulous Michael Lewis at the zenith of crypto hype.
    By Zeke Faux
  8. power
    Surveillance Is Made of DogsHow not to infiltrate an NSA building.
    By Kerry Howley
  9. big tech
    The Silicon Valley LoopHow the dot-com crash created Palo Alto’s clueless investor class.
    By Malcolm Harris
  10. crime
    Inside the Ransomware Gangs That Extort HospitalsThey shut down patient care and put lives at risk. Would the pandemic finally slow them down?
    By Renee Dudley and Daniel Golden
  11. politics
    Who’s the Change Agent Now?Joe Biden is delivering breakthroughs that long eluded Barack Obama. Who understands the presidency best?
    By Gabriel Debenedetti
  12. early and often
    AOC’s New Fiancé Is Charmingly NormalRiley Roberts seems supportive, unpretentious, and comfortable with being invisible.
    By Josh Gondelman
  13. aoc
    The Unprecedented AOCHow a struggling bartender became the face of a resurgent left.
    By Lisa Miller
  14. silicon valley
    Book Excerpt: Peter Thiel’s Untold College StoriesHis ideology dominates Silicon Valley. It began to form when he was an angry young man.
    By Max Chafkin
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    The Female Inmates Fighting California’s Wildfires“Your feet have a pulse of their own. Your face feels like it’s about to melt off.”
    By Jaime Lowe
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    Donald Trump’s January 6, by Michael WolffThe view from inside the Oval Office.
    By Michael Wolff
  17. ideas
    How Fantasy Triumphed Over Reality in American PoliticsThat doesn’t mean that the nation is on the verge of collapse, or even in decline. A new phase of history might be just beginning.
    By Bruno Maçães
  18. first person
    Melania Trump’s Ex-BFF Tells (Almost) AllStephanie Winston Wolkoff thought Trumpworld conspired to destroy her reputation. The First Lady told her, “Don’t be so dramatic.”
    By Olivia Nuzzi
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    The Night Stephen Curry Burned Down the GardenThe greatest shooter on the planet was on a hot streak, and basketball would never be the same.
    By Ben Cohen
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    How I Helped Hack DemocracyThe Cambridge Analytica whistle-blower on the company’s reckless early days.
    By Christopher Wylie
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    ‘The Long-Term Survival of Our Civilization Cannot Be Assured’Energy expert Vaclav Smil believes we must walk away from growth to keep the climate stable. Not that he thinks we will.
    By Vaclav Smil
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    My Tumultuous Time at the New York TimesJill Abramson on her lessons in journalism — and management — from editing the New York Times during the great digital disruption.
    By Jill Abramson
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    Was Architect Philip Johnson a Nazi Spy?A decade before he grew famous for his Glass House, he was enthusiastically at home in the Third Reich.
    By Mark Lamster
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    The Untold Story of Jaime Levy, Punk-Rock Cyber-Publishing PioneerHow a punk-rock kid from L.A. created some of the coolest publications of the 1990s.
    By Claire L. Evans
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    Selling Crack to Children: Inside the Silicon Valley Grift Machine“Without rampant, unchecked fraud, I came to realize, the entire digital media business would collapse.”
    By Corey Pein