New York Magazine: June 15, 2015 Issue

Table of Contents

June 15, 2015

Cover Story

The Blight of the Honeybee

It turns out bees are, quite literally, worrying themselves to death. By David Wallace-Wells

On the Cover: David Chang. Photograph by Bobby Doherty.

Features

When Did the End Begin?

A scientific debate that has a beginning, an end, and a hole in the middle: When, exactly, did mankind put Earth on the road to ruin?

By Robert Sullivan
Does This Ex-Con Know the NBA Better Than LeBron?

Disgraced referee Timothy Francis Donaghy is finally (legally) allowed to pursue his true calling: gambling.

By Pat Jordan
Ugly

The tea-party suicide that left the right reeling — and pointing fingers.

By Marin Cogan

Intelligencer

Culture

The Cut

Culottes: Silly or Chic?

A history (and the present state) of the so-called divided skirt; culotte, meet shoe; in the wild.

Departments

Strategist

The Everything Guide to Hacking Your Summer

How to turn a watermelon into a keg, find a chalet hideaway, play on a hidden tennis court, and swim (naked or not).