One Great Story

One Great Story

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

getting around

They Missed Their Cruise Ship. That Was Only The Beginning.

 A group of nine passengers were stranded on a remote island in Africa. They spent seven days trying to catch back up with the boat. podcast By Bridget Read
first person

How Does My Divorce Make You Feel?

 As a therapist, I try to keep my personal life private. After my public split, that was no longer in my control. By Dr. Lilly Jay
hollywood

‘Are We Really Friends? Or Are You Just Using Me?’

 When Brian Jordan Alvarez made it big with English Teacher, he brought his friends along with him, just like they’d always dreamed. Except one. By E. Alex Jung

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  1. trump on trial
    Inside Todd Blanche’s Plan to Keep Donald Trump Out of JailTwelve jurors seated. He just needs one.
    By Andrew Rice
  2. screen time
    How Product Recommendations Broke GoogleAnd ate the internet in the process.
    By John Herrman
  3. taylor swift
    The Real Reason Taylor Swift Dresses Like ThatA close read on a decade of outfits.
    By Cathy Horyn
  4. close reads
    Is Tom Ripley Gay?The question has challenged every adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s book, including the latest — and best — from Steven Zaillian.
    By Mark Harris
  5. encounter
    Salman Rushdie Parties AgainA defiant celebration of Knife caps a physical (and reputational) comeback.
    By Simon van Zuylen-Wood
  6. oj simpson
    Thankfully, O.J. Simpson Was One of a KindOnly someone who straddled the fault lines of race, culture, and sports could have produced such a frenzied media spectacle.
    By Will Leitch
  7. encounter
    The Brooklyn Power Throuple Making Space for a BabyLiterary couple Daniel and Grace Lavery and their partner, Lily Woodruff, are all living and working full time in their Brooklyn apartment.
    By Choire Sicha
  8. the law
    A Handgun for ChristmasWhy were James and Jennifer Crumbley found guilty for their son’s mass shooting?
    By Lisa Miller
  9. the power trip
    Arizona’s Senate Race Is a Battle Over the Nature of RealityGround zero for the rigged-election conspiracy, the border state could decide both the fate of the Senate and the presidency.
    By Olivia Nuzzi
  10. the yesteryear issue
    Who Ate Where: The Restaurants That Defined New YorkA social history of New York City, told entirely through its regulars.
    By The Editors
  11. parenting
    The Moms Who Smoke in SecretThey’ll do anything to hide it from their kids — except quit.
    By Emily Gould
  12. the work of art
    How’d You Make That?Three masterpieces from glimmer through struggle to breakthrough.
    By Adam Moss
  13. social studies
    What Led a New York Midwife to Fake 12,499 Vaccine Records?And what, exactly, did parents know?
    By James D. Walsh
  14. unnatural disasters
    The Boeing NosediveA once-venerable company turned its soul over to shareholders and courted disaster.
    By Jeff Wise
  15. parenting
    When Your Kid Is the Classroom Problem ChildWhat would you do if your third-grader hit other kids, shoved his teachers, destroyed his classroom, and hid from everyone?
    By Anya Kamenetz
  16. the media
    Andrew Huberman’s Mechanisms of ControlThe private and public seductions of the world’s biggest pop neuroscientist.
    By Kerry Howley
  17. the media
    Jeff Zucker’s Fleet Street MisadventureThe former CNN and NBC boss wants a new media empire. Is that even possible in 2024?
    By Michael Wolff
  18. social studies
    Inside the Craziest College-Admissions Season EverMore applicants, new rules, and even less clarity from schools.
    By Jeffrey Selingo
  19. the city politic
    The Eric Adams Smash-and-GrabIt’s a brazenly transactional era of government here in New York City. Frank Carone is its master practitioner.
    By David Freedlander
  20. report
    The $9.5 Million HangoverDid a wine-world insider swindle his Bordeaux-swilling pals?
    By James D. Walsh
  21. power
    The Chaos Inside Diddy’s Harlem Charter SchoolParents were drawn in by Capital Prep’s celebrity connections and social justice curriculum. Instead, their children faced violence and dysfunction.
    By Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz
  22. health
    The Ozempic PushersSome fat patients say doctors are pressuring them to take the miracle drug instead of listening to their immediate health concerns.
    By Angelina Chapin
  23. parenting
    How Dr. Becky Professionalized ParentingBecky Kennedy popularized buzzwords like reparenting oneself and co-regulation — it’s made her the most influential parenting expert since Dr. Spock.
    By Kathryn Jezer-Morton
  24. neighborhoods
    The Squatters of Beverly HillsAfter a fugitive doctor abandoned his mansion, an enterprising group of party throwers slid in, upending the lives of their wealthy neighbors.
    By Bridget Read
  25. ideas
    The Right to Change SexThe moral case for letting trans kids change their bodies.
    By Andrea Long Chu
  26. the industry
    Universal Music’s Fight With TikTok Is Screwing Indie Artists“Some of us will not be able to recover from this.”
    By Justin Curto
  27. first person
    Going for Botox With My 82-Year-Old MomIn my 20s, I judged my mother for her midlife vanity. Now that I’m 55, I get it.
    By Monica Corcoran Harel
  28. chapters
    This Is How You Make Money TradingIt’s not about being right. It’s about being right when everyone else is wrong.
    By Gary Stevenson
  29. cut covers
    Kacey Musgraves Comes Down to EarthThe “Space Cowboy” singer got divorced, rebounded, quit weed — and she’s never felt so grounded.
    By Allison P. Davis
  30. profile
    Adelle Waldman Takes the Early ShiftWhy an author best known for skewering Brooklyn literati wrote a novel about working at a big-box store.
    By Emily Gould
  31. in conversation
    Made for Jessica LangeHer haunting role in Mother Play, like so much of her work, is one only she could perform.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
  32. family separation
    Pictures of the Year: Caravans: the new face of migration
    Will the Families Separated by Trump Ever Be Reunited?The Trump administration forcibly separated 5,000 families at the border. Five years later, the work of reunifying them is painfully incomplete.
    By Piper French
  33. migrant crisis
    The Migrants Outside St. BrigidThe city’s campaign to push migrants out has turned their lives into an interminable loop.
    By Jay Bulger and Paula Aceves
  34. it’s theater season
    Amy Herzog and Sam Gold Are Just a Couple of Ibsen LoversEarly in their relationship, they decided never to work together. But neither could resist adapting Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People for Broadway.
    By Jackson McHenry
  35. the money game
    ‘They Are Very Comfortable With Lying’How fallen crypto kingpins Su Zhu and Kyle Davies are dodging prison — and rebranding.
    By Jen Wieczner
  36. renegades
    The Ballad of Barrett BrownHe was a “preppy anarchist” who went to jail for his fight against the surveillance state. Was it all for nothing?
    By Jacob Silverman
  37. drug wars
    The Empty Adderall FactoryA drugmaker’s feud with the DEA is exacerbating the ADHD meds crisis — at a rate of 600 million missing doses a year.
    By James D. Walsh
  38. performance anxiety
    The Crying GameHow do actors learn to sob on cue? And can I? Oprah’s acting coach, a soap star, a famous clown-class graduate, and others explain.
    By Rachel Handler
  39. decisions
    The Lure of DivorceSeven years into my marriage, I hit a breaking point. Since then, I’ve had to decide whether life would be better without my husband in it.
    By Emily Gould
  40. early and often
    Inside the Three-Way Race to Fill California’s Senate SeatAdam Schiff, Katie Porter, and Barbara Lee each represent a distinct way forward for liberals. But the decision might have already been made for them.
    By Rebecca Traister
  41. the money game
    Bill Ackman Strikes BackHis fight has made him the public face of a billionaire class anxious it no longer rules the world.
    By Reeves Wiedeman
  42. books
    Lucy Sante: Here She Comes NowThe author of ‘Low Life’ and ‘Kill All Your Darlings’ tried to keep a safe distance from herself — and her own desires. Until, at 66, she broke free.
    By Carl Swanson
  43. operators
    The Ugliest Divorce in Manhattan Real EstateHFZ’s luxury developers staked their futures on Bjarke Ingels’s High Line debut and lost everything.
    By James D. Walsh
  44. chapters
    Over Three Decades, Tech Obliterated MediaKara Swisher’s front-row seat to a slow-moving catastrophe.
    By Kara Swisher
  45. exhibit a
    What Happens, Exactly, If Trump Is Sentenced to Prison?The Secret Service doesn’t have a plan. Most inmates sleep in dorms. There’s also no Diet Coke.
    By Ankush Khardori
  46. chapters
    The Busiest Basement in Jackson HeightsThe pandemic turned Nuala O’Doherty-Naranjo into an activist. Then the migrant crisis arrived.
    By Eric Klinenberg
  47. social studies
    What If Ozempic Is Just a Good Thing?The media has made the drugs about body politics and our obsession with thinness. They’re telling the wrong story.
    By Rachael Bedard
  48. social studies
    How We Lost Our Minds About UFOsNo, aliens haven’t visited the Earth. Why are so many smart people insisting otherwise?
    By Nicholson Baker
  49. early and often
    The Governor’s Wife Has Decided to Be a SenatorThe First Lady of New Jersey is leveraging her husband’s power to lock up the Democratic nomination for Senate. She appears unstoppable.
    By Simon van Zuylen-Wood
  50. social studies
    Inventing the Perfect College ApplicantFor $120,000 a year, Christopher Rim promises to turn any student into Ivy bait.
    By Caitlin Moscatello
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