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One Great Story

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

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
profile

Adrien Brody Found the Part

 The Brutalist is his best, most personal work since The Pianist. By E. Alex Jung
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

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  1. stop the presses
    George Santos, MAGA ‘It’ GirlVish Burra, the congressman’s “director of operations,” met me on Staten Island to explain the plan to make Santos … president?
    By Shawn McCreesh
  2. artificial intelligence
    You Are Not a ParrotAnd a chatbot is not a human. And a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this.
    By Elizabeth Weil
  3. the money game
    The Original King of Crypto Is BackArthur Hayes rubbed success in the Feds’ face and got busted. Now he’s returning to a shell-shocked industry.
    By Jen Wieczner
  4. health
    Life After Food?A diabetes miracle drug has become an off-label appetite suppressant, changing the definition of being thin and what it takes to get there.
    By Matthew Schneier
  5. feature
    ‘Call Me a Scammer to My Face’Madison Campbell is determined to get DIY rape kits into survivors’ hands, no matter who tells her it’s a bad idea.
    By Angelina Chapin and Katie Heaney
  6. art
    MoMA’s Glorified Lava LampRefik Anadol’s Unsupervised is a crowd-pleasing, like-generating mediocrity.
    By Jerry Saltz
  7. early and often
    Who Wants to Be Mayor?Chicago’s boss is in danger of being thrown from office, in a warning sign for other Democrats.
    By Ross Barkan
  8. encounter
    My Valentine’s Day Date With Bernie SandersThe senator railed against Über-capitalism, signed autographs, and ordered soup.
    By Bridget Read
  9. eldorado ballroom
    Solange and Saint Heron Are Honoring Black Innovation at BAMIn a rare interview, Solange talks about bringing together a lineup of Kelela, KeiyaA, the Clark Sisters, and more.
    By Craig Jenkins
  10. power
    Crime of the CenturiesTomb raiders, crooked art dealers, and museum curators fed billionaire Michael Steinhardt’s addiction to antiquities. Many also happened to be stolen.
    By Greg Donahue
  11. stop the presses
    Get Me Risa Heller!If you’re Jeff Zucker or Mario Batali or Jared Kushner and you’re trying to survive a bout of very bad press, she’s the one you call.
    By Shawn McCreesh
  12. games
    What Was Kyrie Irving Thinking?He arrived in Brooklyn a bona fide weirdo. He left for Dallas on even stranger terms.
    By Simon van Zuylen-Wood
  13. encounter
    Caroline Polachek Loves MessFor her mucky, bold, feminine new album, the singer gets primal.
    By Rachel Handler
  14. close read
    The Last of Us Is Not a Video-Game AdaptationHBO turned the story into unmissable television. So why does it feel like something’s missing?
    By Andrea Long Chu
  15. exit interview
    Steven Soderbergh Can’t Quit Magic MikeHe says there was “no compelling reason” to make a third movie, and then Channing Tatum’s live show happened.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
  16. power
    Inside the ‘Rampant Culture of Sex’ at ABC NewsT.J. Holmes and Amy Robach weren’t the only ones — “It felt like everybody was sleeping around,” said one former GMA staffer.
    By Angelina Chapin
  17. rich people stuff
    The Fleishman EffectIn a city of Rachels and Libbys, the FX show has some New York moms worried they’re the ones in trouble.
    By Caitlin Moscatello
  18. culture
    This Is Pamela, FinallyThe model-actress’s memoir and documentary reveal only what she wants us to know. It’s about time.
    By Roxane Gay
  19. the industry
    The Documentary World’s Identity CrisisThe boom — or glut — in streaming documentaries has sparked a reckoning among filmmakers and their subjects.
    By Reeves Wiedeman
  20. spring fashion
    The Laundress Was Supposed to Be the Nice DetergentUntil people started breaking out into hideous rashes.
    By Emilia Petrarca
  21. spring fashion
    The Promise of Pyer MossKerby Jean-Raymond was one of fashion’s most celebrated young designers. Then what happened?
    By Tahirah Hairston
  22. the housing market
    New Yorkers Never Came ‘Flooding Back.’ Why Did Rents Go Up So Much?Getting to the bottom of a COVID-era real estate mystery.
    By Lane Brown
  23. chinese democracy
    The Radical, Lonely, Suddenly Shocking Life of Wang JuntaoAfter half a century of resisting the Chinese Communist Party, a dissident confronts murder and espionage in Queens.
    By Christopher Beam
  24. groceries
    Welcome to the Shoppy ShopWhy does every store suddenly look the same?
    By Emily Sundberg
  25. rikers
    How a Rikers Unit That Protects Trans Women Fell ApartA decade ago, New York set out to lead the nation in efforts to support incarcerated trans people. Now they are stranded in all-male housing units.
    By George Joseph
  26. the national interest
    Debt Ceiling Extortion Is an Attack on DemocracyIf Republicans want to cut spending, they should win an election and do it themselves.
    By Jonathan Chait
  27. biography of a building
    A Queens Co-Op Full of ElectriciansIt remains basically as it was imagined in 1949: a surprisingly affordable city-within-a-city.
    By Kayla Levy
  28. crime
    Here’s Why Everything at Walgreens Is Suddenly Behind PlasticThe recent spike in shoplifting is both overblown and real. And almost everyone is profiting from it (including you).
    By James D. Walsh
  29. twitter
    Inside Elon’s ‘Extremely Hardcore’ TwitterTwitter’s staff spent years trying to protect the platform against impulsive, ranting billionaires — then one made himself the CEO.
    By Zoë Schiffer, Casey Newton, and Alex Heath
  30. media
    Will Ashley Biden’s Stolen Diary Take Down Project Veritas?After a decade of punking liberals with hidden-camera stings, James O’Keefe becomes the story.
    By Andrew Rice
  31. the industry
    Inside the VFX Union Brewing in HollywoodVisual-effects technicians have never been more vital to movies and TV. Can studios like Marvel accept that?
    By Chris Lee
  32. respect the classics
    Two Rock Hall Voters Debate Who Should Be on This Year’s Ballot“They’re definitely running out of geezers. You can’t do so many more years of, ‘Oh yeah, this guy who had three hits in 1972.’”
    By Devon Ivie
  33. the system
    A Cosmologist’s Case for Staying Put on EarthThe many heterodoxies of Chanda Prescod-Weinstein.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  34. health
    Could Magic Mushrooms Be the Drug to Finally Cure Eating Disorders?For young patients, lasting treatment can feel elusive. Psychedelics could change that.
    By Megan Zhang
  35. art
    William Eggleston’s Atmospheric DisturbancesHis photographs from the 1970s are a clairvoyant glimpse of the future.
    By Jerry Saltz
  36. profile
    Allison Williams Comes AliveThe star of the already viral M3gan has made a career of subverting her own image.
    By Rachel Handler
  37. the law
    Kelly Harnett Had to Get FreeShe was a jailhouse lawyer helping women get out of prison, but she couldn’t work the system for herself. Then the system changed.
    By Justine van der Leun
  38. power
    Life After ParklandA shooting at their high school turned X González into an activist, a celebrity, a “survivor” — and the pressure almost killed them.
    By X González
  39. early and often
    The Fall of the Progressive Boy KingSean McElwee formed a lucrative alliance with SBF. Then his patron went bust and he suffered his own scandal.
    By David Freedlander
  40. encounter
    Bob Gottlieb vs. Bob CaroThe 91-year-old book editor would like his 87-year-old star writer to finish his latest book.
    By Matthew Schneier
  41. the law
    Karl Ashanti Defended the NYPD, Then He Was ArrestedFor 11 years, the police lawyer defended the NYPD in civil-rights cases. Then he was arrested for a crime he didn’t commit.
    By Jake Pearson
  42. the year of the nepo baby
    How a Nepo Baby Is BornHollywood has always loved the children of famous people. In 2022, the internet reduced them to two little words.
    By Nate Jones
  43. sex diaries
    How I Get Strangers to Talk About Their Sex LivesTo write the Sex Diaries column every week, I stop people on the bus, ask my cashier at CVS, or even beg my next-door neighbors.
    By Alyssa Shelasky
  44. screen time
    This Was Always the Problem With TwitterThe company has been exactly what the owners needed it to be — and nothing more.
    By John Herrman
  45. finales
    The White Lotus’s Watery EndThe season finale plunges into the unknowable depths of Mike White’s favorite symbol.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  46. first person
    I Lost My Brother TwiceFirst to schizophrenia, then forever to the city.
    By Alex Brook Lynn
  47. the city politic
    The Queens Native Tasked With Making Legal Weed WorkChristopher Alexander is building New York’s budding market from scratch.
    By Mychal Denzel Smith
  48. public art watch
    Mashed Potatoes Meet MonetClimate activists have been celebrated for defacing great paintings. Why?
    By Jerry Saltz
  49. reasons to love new york
    39 Reasons to Love New York Right NowEvery time it’s been confronted, New York has returned, more impossibly and unpredictably itself than ever, because we wanted it to.
    By The Editors
  50. profile
    Brace Yourself for Jordan E. Cooper’s Ain’t No Mo’In his bawdy Broadway debut, no one is safe.
    By Tirhakah Love
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