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  1. feature
    A Year’s Diary of Climate ReckoningSome scientists say the best way to combat climate change is to talk about it. For 2019, my New Year’s resolution was to do just that.
  2. crime
    The Complete List of Allegations Against Harvey WeinsteinBy our count, 100 women have come forward with allegations of sexual assault or harassment against Weinstein, who has denied any criminal wrongdoing.
  3. profile
    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.
  4. crime
    100 Women vs. Harvey WeinsteinThe disgraced movie mogul finally faces his day in court. But as his accusers know best, there might not be a Hollywood ending.
  5. feature
    A Year Inside a Growing American Terrorist MovementEleven years after Obama’s election, and three years into the Trump presidency, the threat of white-nationalist hate groups can’t be ignored.
  6. 2019 in review
    The Cut’s 10 Most-Read Stories of 2019Including a viral Ask Polly, influencer drama, and incels going under the knife.
  7. profile
    Juice WRLD Doesn’t Want to Be Emo AnymoreThe rapper, who has died at 21, got big off of raw, sad songs.
  8. who were the 2010s?
    Kim Kardashian West on Her Decade of Multi-Platform FameThroughout the 2010s, she demonstrably shifted American culture, changing the way we understand fame and the internet.
  9. feature
    A Party Drug for the End of the WorldHow ketamine became the vice of choice for our dissociated moment.
  10. self
    Peloton Is Spinning Faster Than EverThe company may have unwittingly created a fitness cult, but their business model is a little more complicated.
  11. feature
    The Wall Street Billionaire and the Ultimate College HedgeDavid E. Shaw’s broad, risk-averse strategy, applied to university admissions.
  12. technology
    A Cynic’s Guide to Killing It at StanfordMany of the 1,700 freshmen arriving in Palo Alto this September didn’t come for the Romantic poetry but to network, raise capital, and drop out.
  13. politics
    Is There Hope for America After Trump?The Republic already looks like Rome in ruins.
  14. the body politic
    Talking Teaching With Elizabeth Warren, the Most Professorial Candidate EverShe has been instructing students since she was 8 years old. But does America want to be taught?
  15. cut covers
    Make Some Room for Naomi WatanabeThe unstoppable Japanese comedian is coming for America and the world.
  16. parenting
    A Class Riot Among the One Percent at Brooklyn’s Oldest Nursery SchoolWhat happened when Grace Church School decided to become a little less old-fashioned? Lots of parent-teacher drama.
  17. cut covers
    Linda Cardellini, Still Blooming“You can play the ingenue or you could play the woman who’s got a hunch on her back. And the hunchback was always my choice.”
  18. crime
    The Bitter Sibling Rivalry Burning Up an $800 Million Louisiana Oil DynastyA story of lifelong grudges, frame-ups, greed, drugs, and an incompetent conspiracy of off-duty cops.
  19. feature
    How Cindy Yang Learned to Throw a Party at Mar-a-LagoCindy Yang was a rising fixture in Palm Beach society. Then Robert Kraft got charged with soliciting prostitution and the FBI took notice.
  20. media
    The Wild Ride at Babe.NetThe Aziz Ansari controversy was just the beginning of the trouble for the website.
  21. tv
    How Drag Became America’s New National PastimeIt’s now a full-fledged spectator sport. And drag queens now have a shot at pop stardom.
  22. vulture lists
    The Most Powerful Drag Queens in America, RankedAfter talking to talent agents and managers, club bookers, and producers, we determined America’s top-100 Drag Race superstars.
  23. business
    How Did WeWork’s Adam Neumann Build a $47 Billion Company?Not by sharing.
  24. crime
    Before, and After, the JoggerSurvivors of the real ‘Central Park Five’ attacker speak for the first time.
  25. urban planning
    Why New York Can’t Have Nice ThingsIt costs three times more to build a subway station here than in London or Paris. What if we could change that?
  26. health
    Measles for the One PercentVaccines, Waldorf schools, and the problem with liberal Luddites.
  27. feature
    How Many Bones Would You Break to Get Laid?“Incels” are going under the knife to reshape their faces, and their dating prospects.
  28. no more plastic
    A Week Without PlasticIt turns out entirely avoiding single-use plastic is just as hard as it sounds.
  29. gallery
    A Trove of ‘Lost’ New York City Crime Scene Photos, Unearthed After 82 YearsSeventy-three prints from legendary photographer Weegee were stashed in a kitchen cupboard and unseen until now.
  30. feature
    Astrology Is Serious Business, Even If It’s Not RealIn a demographic desperate for reassurance, a customized cosmos is a very valuable proposition.
  31. anniversaries
    The Weird Sadness of Aughts NostalgiaThe good art from the era came at the expense of great distress.
  32. from the archives
    Karl Lagerfeld, Boy Prince of FashionThe late designer had opinions on everything — even his own death.
  33. oscars 2019
    An Oscar Win for ‘Shallow’ or ‘All the Stars’ Would Be Significant. Here’s Why.Popular songs used to rule the original song category at the Oscars. Could a win for A Star Is Born or Black Panther change that?
  34. deaths
    Andrew Lincoln Didn’t Like That The Walking Dead Killed Off Steven Yeun“I regret Glenn going.”
  35. power
    17 Women Talk About Being Left Behind by #MeTooWe spoke with women from dozens of industries who remain unable to report sexual abuse and harassment.
  36. profile
    Parkland Activist David Hogg Is Taking His Gap Year at the BarricadesFurious and unflinching, an NRA enemy, an accused “crisis actor,” and a high-school grad trying to figure out what’s next.
  37. Chemistry? Watch Sheila Carrasco and Eliot Schwartz in Piano LessonsThey’re the Marty and Bobbi Mohan-Culp of 2018.
  38. health concerns
    The Last Conversation You’ll Need to Have on Eating Right: The Follow-upsMark Bittman and Dr. David L. Katz tackle the questions they received after their original story on healthy food.
  39. feature
    A Teen Turned Informant to Escape MS-13. Now His Life Is in Even More Danger.Henry thought that talking to the cops would help him get away from the violent gang. Now he’s caught between them and ICE.
  40. feature
    The Surprising True Story Behind Steve MaddenThe man behind the shoe box is revealed in a new documentary.
  41. agriculture
    The Farmer Struggling to Recover After Hurricane Harvey Destroyed EverythingHurricane Harvey wiped out Garrett Gundermann’s Texas farm. This is what it’s like to start over from scratch after unprecedented devastation.
  42. select all
    The Millennial Walt Disney Wants to Turn Empty Stores Into Instagram PlaygroundsMaryellis Bunn, the 25-year-old co-founder of the Museum of Ice Cream, says retail is dead and experiences are the future.
  43. feature
    Is Anybody Home at Ben Carson’s HUD?A long-harbored conservative dream — the “dismantling of the administrative state” — is taking place under Secretary Carson.
  44. that’s a bop
    Sharon Van Etten on Twin Peaks, Motherhood, and Her Many LivesThe singer-songwriter has a thousand careers.
  45. feature
    Jerry Saltz: My Life As a Failed ArtistDecades after giving up the dream for good, an art critic returns to the work he’d devoted his life to, then abandoned — but never really forgot.
  46. feature
    With Rumors, Scandal, and a Record Budget Shortfall, What Broke the Met?Just a year ago, the museum was planning an ambitious expansion and touting record attendance. Now its director has been ousted.
  47. feature
    PissPigGranddad, the Punk-Rock Florist Who Fought ISIS in Syria, Is Coming HomeBrace Belden became a radical icon when he went to take up arms against terrorists, build a socialist utopia, and tweet jokes about the revolution.
  48. feature
    The Man Who Shot Reagan Is Out of the Mental Hospital and Living With His MotherCan someone who tried to murder a president be rehabilitated?
  49. feature
    Suddenly, New York’s Rich Are Obsessed With Importing PandasThe Chinese export every powerful person can get behind.
  50. close reads
    24 Is Back to Make You Fear Muslim Terrorists AgainIts arrival at this moment in American history highlights an awkward tension inherent to TV reboots.
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