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15 Jun

Exclusive: What happened in New York City’s only Amazon fulfillment center amid the pandemic shows how Jeff Bezos pulled off the impossible — and reveals relentless turnover, inadvertent firings, racial inequities and an employment model under strain. nyti.ms/3goAumo

To document the untold story of Amazon’s employment system, our reporters interviewed nearly 200 current and former employees, from new hires to corporate veterans in Seattle, and obtained internal documents, including posts from warehouse feedback boards. nyti.ms/3goAumo

Amazon’s turnover was roughly 150% a year, The New York Times learned, meaning the company had to replace the equivalent of its entire hourly work force roughly every eight months.

Some executives worry that the company may run out of workers. nyti.ms/3goAumo

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13 Jun

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When Benjamin Netanyahu burst into Israeli politics in the 1990s, he was like no politician his country had ever seen. As Bibi relinquishes power, nearly a quarter-century after first becoming prime minister, @halbfinger looks back on a polarizing figure. nyti.ms/3wrFKvq

Netanyahu, Israeli's longest-serving leader, inspired such admiration among supporters that they likened him to King David. His political agility got him out of so much — including indictment — that even his detractors thought of him as a magician. nyti.ms/3xnBgGb

Netanyahu was deeply divisive: Governing from the right; branding adversaries as traitors, anti-Israel or anti-Semitic; obsessed with power. Allegations that he bribed media executives for favorable news coverage led to criminal charges that haunted his final years in office.

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13 Jun

Una investigación del Times descubrió fallas graves en la estructura del tramo elevado del metro de Ciudad de México que parecen haber conducido a su colapso en mayo, cuando murieron 26 pasajeros después de que un tren se desplomó 12 metros sobre una calle nyti.ms/3wlrkNf

Tomamos miles de fotos del lugar del colapso y las compartimos con reconocidos ingenieros que llegaron a la misma conclusión sobre la falla: una obra deficiente que parece seguir un patrón de oportunismo político y trabajos desordenados mientras se construía el metro.

También revisamos miles de páginas de documentos internos del gobierno y corporativos sobre la problemática historia del metro, que revelan más de una década de advertencias y preocupaciones sobre la seguridad antes del fatal siniestro. nyti.ms/3pO7t6M

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12 Jun

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This year, @NYTMag’s annual New York issue is dedicated to the reawakening of the city as it recovers from the pandemic.
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In May, as the masks came off and the city started coming back to normal, @NYTMag documented its reawakening through the eyes of 15 photographers, all of them age 25 or younger. nyti.ms/3iA1MrF

From the opening of a new public park to a block party on Tompkins Avenue, from Eid celebrations in Queens to a graduation ceremony — for all 31 days in May, the photographers captured the hope, excitement, anxiety and energy of a city surging back to life nyti.ms/3iA1MrF

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11 Jun

After winning fans and BTS ARMYs around the world, South Korean music, films and dramas are now captivating North Koreans. Kim Jong-un called it a “vicious cancer.”

But even a dictator might struggle to hold back the tide. nyti.ms/3izjeg0

In recent months, Kim Jong-un and North Korean media have railed against “anti-socialist and nonsocialist” influences. But behind closed doors, South Korean entertainment is widely popular, smuggled in on flash drives and stealing the hearts of North Koreans who watch in secret.

The influence of South Korean pop culture in the North goes beyond songs and movies. Women in North Korea, for example, are supposed to call their dates “comrade.” Instead, many have started calling them “oppa,” or honey. Kim has called the language “perverted.”

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9 Jun

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The masks are coming off.
The subways are becoming crowded.
New York is returning to normal.
But is normal what we want?

In @NYTmag, @jonathanmahler asks: Can New York recover from the decades of division and inequality that the virus exposed? nyti.ms/3cxzCtp

The pandemic brought out New York’s long-term failures: Underresourced public hospitals. The paucity of affordable housing. Students in the public school system with no devices and no stable internet who couldn't participate in remote learning. nyti.ms/3cxzCtp

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But now, there’s an opportunity to redirect and to make New York a better, fairer place, @jonathanmahler writes. nyti.ms/3cxzCtp

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