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One Great Story

The one story you shouldn’t miss today, selected by New York’s editors.

social studies

The Next Drug Epidemic Is Blue-Raspberry Flavored

 How Galaxy Gas became synonymous with the country’s burgeoning addiction to gas. podcast By Ezra Marcus
from the wings

Life As a Millennial Stage Mom

 A journey into the cutthroat and adorable world of professional child actors. podcast By Lauren Hilgers
the city politic

The Mayoral Race Has Begun. Everyone Is Frozen.

 There are lots of candidates, and plenty of scandal and drama — but mostly there is waiting. podcast By David Freedlander

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  1. breonna taylor
    A Mother’s Birthday Tribute to Breonna Taylor“It’s hard to breathe without her.”
    As told to Angelina Chapin
  2. first person
    Our Brother KaizenHe would be called a murderer and a domestic terrorist. But to us, he was family. Our struggles with systemic racism growing up were the same.
    By The Lucas Bros
  3. what’s past is prologue
    Trump Is Reviving the Disgraceful Legacy of ‘Law-and-Order’ PoliticsTrump’s rhetoric echos Nixon and Reagan — but unlike his predecessors, he’s incapable of posing as a force for unity as well as repression.
    By Ed Kilgore
  4. brain worms 2020
    The Revolution Will Not Be BrandedThe platitudinous word soup deployed from various brands has felt even more at odds with reality than usual.
    By E. Alex Jung
  5. close reads
    Cops Are Always the Main CharactersTV perfected the cop show, metastasized it, and then franchised it into ubiquity. How does that affect the way audiences think about police?
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  6. george floyd
    The Lies We Tell About RiotsHow America mystifies the wages of its racism.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  7. remembrances
    Larry Kramer’s InheritanceAn intergenerational conversation about what he meant and means.
    By Mark Harris and Jackson McHenry
  8. the streaming wars
    HBO Max Struts Into the Streaming ThunderdomeInside WarnerMedia’s multibillion-dollar bid to supersize HBO and transform it into a powerhouse capable of battling Netflix.
    By Josef Adalian
  9. profile
    Surviving It AllShe’s 92, made it through the Holocaust, and set off for a cruise around the world in February.
    By Rebecca Traister
  10. summer in the city
    That Office AC System Is Great — at Recirculating VirusesDeep breaths may not be calming.
    By Justin Davidson
  11. vision 2020
    Joe Biden’s VP Search Is Turning Into an Open AuditionAnd almost everyone he knows wants to weigh in.
    By Gabriel Debenedetti
  12. the national interest
    Trump Is Failing at Governing But Winning at AuthoritarianismTerrible management and effective corruption can go hand in hand.
    By Jonathan Chait
  13. movies
    The End of The TripThe final installment of Michael Winterbottom’s culinary road trip is a fittingly melancholy finish for the series.
    By Joshua David Stein
  14. summer 2020
    What Is a Summer Movie Anyway?As a summer without movie theaters looks more and more likely, two critics discuss an outdated way of viewing films.
    By Alison Willmore and Bilge Ebiri
  15. encounter
    André Leon Talley Would Still Take Anna Wintour’s CallFrom his living room in White Plains, the fashion writer on his new memoir and old friends.
    By E. Alex Jung
  16. first person
    ‘We Have No Superpowers’: A New Doctor’s Lessons From the PandemicGraduating early to join the front lines of New York’s battle against the coronavirus offers a crash course in medicine’s limitations.
    By Gabriel Redel-Traub
  17. the diy queen
    Of Course Charli XCX Invented the Quarantine AlbumIf this is how we party now, pop’s reigning futurist is here for it.
    By Meaghan Garvey
  18. first person
    My AppetitesJerry Saltz on eating and coping mechanisms, childhood and self-control, criticism, love, cancer and pandemics.
    By Jerry Saltz
  19. vision 2020
    Biden Is Planning an FDR-Size PresidencyHe thinks he’ll survive Tara Reade’s accusation. But he knows he can’t be an average-Joe Democrat anymore.
    By Gabriel Debenedetti
  20. rip
    Good-bye Jimmy Glenn, the Best Cutman in Times Square“Rich, poor, black, white — Jimmy didn’t care who you were. He cared what you had to say.”
    By Geoffrey Gray
  21. coronavirus
    There Is Still No PlanThe lockdowns were an expensive way to buy time. The government has squandered it.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  22. in conversation
    Hayley Williams on What Went Wrong With Paramore and Her New Solo Life“If we didn’t have all that stupid fucking drama for all those years, would people even know who we are anymore?”
    By Eve Barlow
  23. growers
    The Quarantine Garden Has Taken OffSeeds are the new sourdough.
    By Chris Crowley
  24. celebrity
    Has Isolation Left You Starved for Gossip?Lainey Gossip’s Elaine Lui on what we can learn from celebrity scuttlebutt in a pandemic.
    By Emilia Petrarca
  25. profile
    Alice Wu Is (Finally) Ready to Break Your HeartThe Saving Face director left Hollywood after making her lesbian rom-com. 10 years later, she’s back with a queer Cyrano for Gen Z on Netflix.
    By Alison Willmore
  26. biography of a building
    Exploring a Real-Estate Time Capsule in HarlemInside Graham Court, a Gilded Age rental from the architects behind the Apthorp.
    By Matthew Sedacca
  27. joe biden
    Feminism Should Make You UncomfortableWe shouldn’t ignore the lessons of Me Too for the sake of Joe Biden.
    By Sarah Jones
  28. first person
    The Spaces Between UsWhen friends and neighbors run for the hills, small differences in wealth suddenly loom large.
    By Lisa Miller
  29. inequality
    Are You Rich Enough to Survive This Pandemic?The vulnerable, the virus, and America’s willful blindness.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  30. the future
    What If Improv Were Good?The Middleditch & Schwartz specials suggest a future where the form belongs to performers, not theaters.
    By Jesse David Fox
  31. covid diary
    The Nurse Who Came by SeaMedical recruiters have been rounding up reinforcements for New York hospitals.
    By Laura van Straaten
  32. close reads
    I Read Woody Allen’s Memoir So You Don’t Have ToFirst off, there are two short passages that will forever change the way I think about him. I cannot unread, unhear, unknow them. I wish I could.
    By Mark Harris
  33. first person
    I Don’t Know How to Tell This StoryCecily Strong on grieving a loved one while quarantined.
    By Cecily Strong
  34. the top line
    The Patchwork Approach of the CARES Act Is a Strong Coronavirus Stimulus PlanWhile 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
  35. a long talk
    Allow Fiona Apple to Reintroduce Herself“Nowadays, I try to remember who I was before all this started.”
    By Rachel Handler
  36. vision 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
  37. coronavirus
    Hollywood Is Writing Off 2020. What Does That Mean for the Future of Movies?“Anyone who says that everything is not totally f- - - -d is lying,” says one anonymous Hollywood agent.
    By Chris Lee
  38. feature
    Two Hours Daily to Sanitize, Two Hours to CryAn emergency-room doctor struggles to keep it together — and find supplies.
    By Lisa Miller
  39. feature
    When the Restaurants Closed, They Cooked for Each OtherChef Ignacio Mattos had just earned a Michelin star. Now he’s struggling to feed his staff.
    By Benjamin Wallace
  40. feature
    He’s Lost Seven Parishioners, and 20 Are SickIn his 40 years of preaching, the Reverend Johnnie Green has never felt this helpless.
    By Lila Shapiro
  41. the jokes must go on
    At Home (Where Else?) With Jimmy FallonThe late-night host makes a quarantine comeback, with an assist from his wife and kids.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  42. obits
    John Prine Was One of the Great American Songwriters. He Was Also All of Us.His music was a celebration of the fullness and the randomness of life.
    By Craig Jenkins
  43. first person
    ‘They Separated Me From My Baby’Hospitals are keeping newborns from their parents over coronavirus fears.
    By Irin Carmon
  44. coronavirus
    There Is No Plan for the End of the Coronavirus CrisisOn 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
  45. profile
    Her Dark MaterialsWith Never Rarely Sometimes Always, Eliza Hittman takes on the “bureaucratic odyssey” of getting an abortion in the U.S.
    By Rachel Handler
  46. faith
    Did My Fundamentalist Upbringing Prepare Me for Coronavirus?I was raised to believe the End was near. Then came the pandemic.
    By Sarah Jones
  47. art world
    The Last Days of the Art World … and Perhaps the First Days of a New OneThe art that emerges in the aftermath of this crisis will look very different. The rupture will be even more dramatic for galleries and museums.
    By Jerry Saltz
  48. cut covers
    Rah-Rah, BitchesLa’Darius Marshall is the real breakout star of Cheer.
    By Bobby Finger
  49. relationships
    Dating in CaptivityGo ahead and reinstall Tinder in self-isolation. Or, if that doesn’t work, join a virtual sext bunker.
    By Allison P. Davis
  50. diary of a hospital
    Diary of a Hospital: A Head Nurse’s Burden“I don’t want to play God.”
    As told to Anna Silman
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