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vision 2020
May 11, 2020
Biden Is Planning an FDR-Size Presidency
He thinks he’ll survive Tara Reade’s accusation. But he knows he can’t be an average-Joe Democrat anymore.
By
Gabriel Debenedetti
coronavirus
May 7, 2020
There Is Still No Plan
The lockdowns were an expensive way to buy time. The government has squandered it.
By
David Wallace-Wells
biography of a building
Apr. 30, 2020
Exploring a Real-Estate Time Capsule in Harlem
Inside Graham Court, a Gilded Age rental from the architects behind the Apthorp.
By
Matthew Sedacca
joe biden
Apr. 29, 2020
Feminism Should Make You Uncomfortable
We shouldn’t ignore the lessons of Me Too for the sake of Joe Biden.
By
Sarah Jones
inequality
Apr. 27, 2020
Are You Rich Enough to Survive This Pandemic?
The vulnerable, the virus, and America’s willful blindness.
By
Zak Cheney-Rice
covid diary
Apr. 23, 2020
The Nurse Who Came by Sea
Medical recruiters have been rounding up reinforcements for New York hospitals.
By
Laura van Straaten
the top line
Apr. 20, 2020
The Patchwork Approach of the CARES Act Is a Strong Coronavirus Stimulus Plan
While the PPP is dry, the act’s boosted unemployment benefits provide another route to get federal cash to a worker at a distressed business.
By
Josh Barro
vision 2020
Apr. 16, 2020
How Do You Campaign When You Can’t Hit the Campaign Trail?
There’s no playbook for how to run a presidential campaign during a pandemic. Biden and his team are trying to write one.
By
Gabriel Debenedetti
feature
Apr. 14, 2020
Two Hours Daily to Sanitize, Two Hours to Cry
An emergency-room doctor struggles to keep it together — and find supplies.
By
Lisa Miller
feature
Apr. 10, 2020
He’s Lost Seven Parishioners, and 20 Are Sick
In his 40 years of preaching, the Reverend Johnnie Green has never felt this helpless.
By
Lila Shapiro
coronavirus
Apr. 5, 2020
There Is No Plan for the End of the Coronavirus Crisis
On top of Trump’s ongoing mismanagement, there is a shocking lack of a strategy, at any level of government, for what the country will do next.
By
David Wallace-Wells
faith
Apr. 3, 2020
Did My Fundamentalist Upbringing Prepare Me for Coronavirus?
I was raised to believe the End was near. Then came the pandemic.
By
Sarah Jones
diary of a hospital
Mar. 30, 2020
Diary of a Hospital: A Head Nurse’s Burden
“I don’t want to play God.”
As told to
Anna Silman
coronavirus
Mar. 26, 2020
Why Did an Expert Who Warned About COVID-19 Have So Much Trouble Being Heard?
Though we often feel that we live in a sea of panic, it may be that the general din prevents us from hearing most important warning cries.
By
David Wallace-Wells
coronavirus
Mar. 22, 2020
‘We’re Flying Blind’: Why Testing for Coronavirus Antibodies Will Matter
Infectious-disease reporter Laurie Garrett shares her thoughts on PPE supply chains, COVID-19 reinfection fears, and the limits of current testing.
By
James D. Walsh
coronavirus
Mar. 17, 2020
Come On, You Live in a Society
Believe it or not, your actions affect other people.
By
Sarah Jones
crime
Mar. 16, 2020
The Stabbing in Morningside Park
Every generation, a crime tells a new story about New York. The murder of Tessa Majors is ours.
By
Lisa Miller
coronavirus
Mar. 11, 2020
When the Coronavirus Came to a Right-wing Pep Rally
COVID-19 made its first appearance on the American political landscape at CPAC. There has been a lot of fallout.
By
Ben Jacobs
coronavirus
Mar. 5, 2020
Bicycling in Sichuan Under the Shadow of Coronavirus
I tried to escape the stultifying paranoia of the surveillance state by bicycling in the countryside. Instead, it followed me there.
By
Lauren Teixeira
vision 2020
Feb. 29, 2020
Inside Bloomberg’s $6-Million-a-Day Spoiler Campaign
The ego and the altruism of the would-be savior of the Democratic Party.
By
Vanessa Grigoriadis
abortion
Feb. 28, 2020
The Next Big Abortion Case Comes Down to John Roberts
Clinics and their attorneys must appeal to Chief Justice Roberts, a devout Catholic who has never voted against an abortion restriction.
By
Irin Carmon
sports
Feb. 19, 2020
The Most Famous High School Basketball Team in the World
The children of LeBron James and Dwyane Wade play for the same L.A. prep school — and they’re not the only future first-round picks.
By
Reeves Wiedeman
media
Feb. 14, 2020
A Visit With Andrew Neil,
The Spectator’
s Publisher and Boris Johnson’s Old Boss
The TV interviewer and chairman of Britain’s ancient conservative magazine is taking a whack at America.
By
Shawn McCreesh
the law
Feb. 12, 2020
We Now Have a Perfect Symbol of Trump and Barr’s Badly Damaged DOJ
The actions of Trump’s newly installed U.S. Attorney in Washington, D.C., reek of political influence.
By
Barbara McQuade
fame
Feb. 5, 2020
Meghan Markle’s Ambitions Are Bigger Than Royalty
She’s inverting the Disney dream of a prince whisking her away to a castle; now the princess is ready to make her own empire.
By
Vanessa Grigoriadis
public health
Feb. 4, 2020
Who Thought Sucking on a Battery Was a Good Idea?
Millions of Americans, some of them teens who never would’ve picked up a cigarette, are vaping. Last year’s panic might be the least of our worries.
By
Stephen S. Hall
cityscape
Jan. 30, 2020
Every Plan to Fix Penn Station, Ranked
More than 30 years’ worth of schemes, renderings, misfires, and good intentions.
By
Justin Davidson
vision 2020
Jan. 29, 2020
Amy Klobuchar Might Finally Have Some Momentum. But Is It Too Late to Matter?
Amy Klobuchar is rising in polls and her campaign says she’s coming on strong in Iowa. For what it’s worth, her opponents don’t seem scared yet.
By
Gabriel Debenedetti
in conversation
Jan. 22, 2020
Frank Gehry Doesn’t Know How to Retire
In conversation with the most famous architect alive, who’s fully engaged and working nonstop as he turns 91.
By
Justin Davidson
vision 2020
Jan. 20, 2020
One of the Iowa Contenders Could Beat Trump, Right?
Two weeks out from the caucus, it’s an unprecedented four-way deadlock. Ready, set, go!
By
Gabriel Debenedetti
buyer’s market
Jan. 15, 2020
When Buying in Bulk Is a Mistake
Sometimes stocking up can be a great investment — and sometimes a waste of money.
By
Josh Barro
trump impeachment
Jan. 7, 2020
What Will Happen to the Trump Toadies?
Look to Nixon’s defenders, and the Vichy collaborators, for clues.
By
Frank Rich
profile
Jan. 6, 2020
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Has Already Changed D.C. It Hasn’t Changed Her Much.
She reshaped her party’s agenda, resuscitated Bernie Sanders’s campaign, and hardly has a friend in town.
By
David Freedlander
vision 2020
Dec. 20, 2019
How Low Will Democrats Go? Probably Not Low Enough.
In a world of fake news and dank memes, this means they’re no longer very good at the internet.
By
Simon van Zuylen-Wood
life after warming
Dec. 16, 2019
U.N. Climate Talks Collapsed in Madrid. What’s the Way Forward?
Following the unsuccessful COP25 conference in Madrid, it’s time to think about a new framework for climate action.
By
David Wallace-Wells
politics
Dec. 6, 2019
The Blundering Brilliance of Boris Johnson
Brexit has given the U.K’s self-seeking Prime Minister the opportunity to show he actually knows what he’s doing.
By
Andrew Sullivan
politics
Dec. 5, 2019
William Barr Is Trump’s Most Powerful Lawyer
The Attorney General is exercising the full force of the Justice Department to defend a president in crisis.
By
Andrew Rice
vision 2020
Dec. 3, 2019
Kamala Harris’s Long Road to an Early Exit
Inside her promising rise and painful fall.
By
Gabriel Debenedetti
steele dossier
Nov. 22, 2019
Fusion GPS Lights a Candle for the ‘Pee Tape’
The co-founders of the intelligence firm that commissioned the infamous Steele Dossier discuss their lives as Trump targets.
By
James D. Walsh
media
Nov. 19, 2019
Employees Say Hearst Is Running a Classic Union-Busting Campaign
“They told me, verbatim, that if I didn’t trust them, I didn’t have to work there.”
By
Sarah Jones
the future issue
Nov. 13, 2019
What Life in 2019 Can Tell Us About Life in 2029
A calendar of predictions about the near future as seen through the recent past.
By
The Editors
the future issue
Nov. 12, 2019
There Will Be No Turning Back on Facial Recognition
It’s not perfect yet, but it’s already changing the world.
By
Lane Brown
veterans
Nov. 8, 2019
The Next Fight for Cory Remsburg, the Wounded Veteran Obama Made Famous
In 2014, a White House speechwriter made a brain-injured soldier a symbol of resilience. Now he finds the story didn’t end so neatly.
By
Terence Szuplat
conservatism
Nov. 7, 2019
The GOP’s Opposition to Impeachment Is (Terrifyingly) Principled
Many conservatives simply value the preservation of liberal democracy less than the maintenance of their movement’s power.
By
Eric Levitz
media
Oct. 28, 2019
After the Fall of the Glossy Magazine, What’s Left of Condé Nast?
Two years after Si Newhouse died (and Graydon Carter left), Anna Wintour and a new CEO map out the future they can afford.
By
Reeves Wiedeman
games
Oct. 8, 2019
The NBA’s China Posture Is Indefensible. It’s Also Inevitable.
Because the league’s players are all in business there, a backlash to the backlash isn’t going to happen, either.
By
Will Leitch
flooding
Sept. 7, 2016
When Will New York City Sink?
A city in climate-change denial.
By
Andrew Rice