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One Great Story

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

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
palisades fire

I Saw the Beginning of Hell

 What started as small flames engulfed my city and my life. By Lucy Sherriff
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

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  1. fiction
    See It SlantWhen I was 19, a girl named K showed me what I was missing. Then she disappeared.
    By C Pam Zhang
  2. buyer’s market
    When Buying in Bulk Is a MistakeSometimes stocking up can be a great investment — and sometimes a waste of money.
    By Josh Barro
  3. first person
    The Healthiest Baby I’ve Ever HadHere we go again, I thought, after the doctor told me there was a problem.
    By Jen Gann
  4. backstories
    The Hardest Day on the Set of 1917Making the single-take World War I thriller required an army of collaborators. Roger Deakins and other crew members share their most difficult tasks.
    By Nate Jones
  5. 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.
    By Emily Raboteau
  6. features
    How New York’s Bagel Union Fought — and Beat — a Mafia TakeoverThe mob saw an opportunity. Local 338 had other ideas.
    By Jason Turbow
  7. trump impeachment
    What Will Happen to the Trump Toadies?Look to Nixon’s defenders, and the Vichy collaborators, for clues.
    By Frank Rich
  8. 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.
    By David Freedlander
  9. vision 2020
    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
  10. kids and tv
    What Should Your Kids Be Watching?The streaming wars are coming for children, which means more minefields — and more excellent television.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  11. life after warming
    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
  12. spoilers
    Damon Lindelof Knows Exactly What Happens After Watchmen’s Cliff-hanger Finale“It didn’t feel that ambiguous to me.”
    By Angelica Jade Bastién
  13. the underground gourmet digest
    The Underground Gourmet’s Year-End DigestOur picks for the top new pizzas, pasta, burgers, and desserts of 2019, ranked.
    By Rob Patronite and Robin Raisfeld
  14. the body politic
    Can You Spot the Fake?Hint: Look at the pundits.
    By Rebecca Traister
  15. what were the 2010s?
    Every Movie of the 2010s, RankedOur critics pored over 5,279 of the decade’s films. Here’s the best, worst, and mehst.
  16. gifts
    130 People With Exacting, Exceptional Taste on the Most Perfect Gift Under $104We set a $100 limit but couldn’t leave out Rita Konig’s cucumber trug.
    By The Editors
  17. reasons to love new york
    The 8 Million Reasons to Love New YorkA tribute to those inspiringly singular New Yorkers who wouldn’t — probably couldn’t — live anywhere else.
    By Daniel Featherstone
  18. politics
    The Blundering Brilliance of Boris JohnsonBrexit has given the U.K’s self-seeking Prime Minister the opportunity to show he actually knows what he’s doing.
    By Andrew Sullivan
  19. politics
    William Barr Is Trump’s Most Powerful LawyerThe Attorney General is exercising the full force of the Justice Department to defend a president in crisis.
    By Andrew Rice
  20. vision 2020
    Kamala Harris’s Long Road to an Early ExitInside her promising rise and painful fall.
    By Gabriel Debenedetti
  21. the 2010s
    How This Decade Made Restaurants BetterThe New York food world became more thoughtful, more vibrant, and far more enjoyable.
    By Alan Sytsma
  22. the essay
    Laura Dern Changed Our Idea of StardomThere is no one performance you can point to as the reason for her decades-long success.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  23. who were the 2010s?
    Instagram’s Co-Founder on Creating the World’s FilterKevin Systrom talks truth, scale, and influencers.
    By Stella Bugbee
  24. steele dossier
    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
  25. feature
    A Party Drug for the End of the WorldHow ketamine became the vice of choice for our dissociated moment.
    By Anna Silman
  26. media
    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
  27. in conversation
    Diablo Cody on the Rise of the Fempire and Writing an Alanis Morissette Musical“I now regret not having been a theater kid my entire life,” she jokes.
    By Genevieve Smith
  28. the body politic
    ‘The Meanie, the Lightweight, the Crazies, and the Angry, Dissembling Elitists’Lessons from a year of six women running for president.
    By Rebecca Traister
  29. the future issue
    What Life in 2019 Can Tell Us About Life in 2029A calendar of predictions about the near future as seen through the recent past.
    By The Editors
  30. the future issue
    There Will Be No Turning Back on Facial RecognitionIt’s not perfect yet, but it’s already changing the world.
    By Lane Brown
  31. the future issue
    Abortion After the ClinicAs Republican lawmakers try to legislate it out of existence, the future of reproductive healthcare may be at home.
    By Irin Carmon
  32. veterans
    The Next Fight for Cory Remsburg, the Wounded Veteran Obama Made FamousIn 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
  33. conservatism
    The GOP’s Opposition to Impeachment Is (Terrifyingly) PrincipledMany conservatives simply value the preservation of liberal democracy less than the maintenance of their movement’s power.
    By Eric Levitz
  34. confessions
    New York’s Cult Fragrance Wouldn’t Exist If It Weren’t for MeSantal 33’s patient zero speaks.
    By Jane Larkworthy
  35. in conversation
    Gilbert Gottfried on Smutty Hollywood Gossip and the Value of Offensive HumorIn conversation with the man who’s been called “the ultimate comedian’s comedian.”
    By Andrew Goldman
  36. book excerpt
    How Adam Platt Learned to Eat Like a Food CriticAn excerpt from his upcoming memoir The Book of Eating.
    By Adam Platt
  37. profile
    Chelsea Clinton Is Figuring Out Her Own Life NowThe odd situation of the former First Daughter in 2019.
    By Jonathan Van Meter
  38. media
    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
  39. nancy drew anew
    Nancy Drew Is Not Who You RememberThe redheaded detective is back in a CW reboot, but the mystery remains: is she more than endlessly recyclable IP?
    By Molly Young
  40. games
    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
  41. profile
    Jonathan Groff Is More Than Just the Murder GuyBouncing from Mindhunter to Little Shop of Horrors, the actor is finally having fun.
    By Jackson McHenry
  42. @tavitulle
    Who Would Tavi Gevinson Be Without Instagram?Confessions from inside the algorithm.
    By Tavi Gevinson
  43. flooding
    When Will New York City Sink?A city in climate-change denial.
    By Andrew Rice