“They’re struggling. They’re sad. They’re overwhelmed. They’re hurting. They’re not learning. And they’ve almost given up...”
A group of high school students trying desperately to make it through an isolated year shared their stories with @susandominus.
nyti.ms/3hog7Ha At the start of sophomore year, Sarah knew that she was not in the right frame of mind to start learning.

School hadn’t even started, and she already felt totally, utterly lost.
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Since the end of the 1918 flu pandemic, an astonishing thing has happened: the average human life span has doubled.
How did this great doubling happen?

In our special issue on life expectancy, @stevenbjohnson explains what it took.

nyti.ms/3vmR9vl We assume that innovations like vaccines and antibiotics changed public health and kept us alive.

But the real story is far more complicated.

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19 songs that matter right now.
Our 2021 Music Issue is here: nyti.ms/3qAPaAR When the pandemic robbed us of community, these 19 artists got us through a year of isolation. nyti.ms/30uojvD

COVER STORY: Voter fraud is largely nonexistent in America.

But our five-month investigation uncovers how the false claim is being used by Republicans to disenfranchise Americans before the 2020 election.
nyti.ms/3cHYMEH After reviewing thousands of pages of court records, and interviews with more than 100 people, @jimrutenberg discovered an extensive effort to gain partisan advantage by aggressively promoting the false claim that voter fraud is a pervasive problem
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Wildfires, hurricanes, extreme heat, rising seas.
The climate crisis is already here in America.
It will change how — and where — we live.
Where will millions of us go?
nyti.ms/3mnhJ3R This is the second part of our series on climate migration in partnership with @propublica, with support from the @pulitzercenter. Read Part One here:
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Even before the pandemic, millions were struggling to put meals on the table.
Now, America is in the midst of a food crisis.

Our cover this week: nyti.ms/2GugxLL Food insecurity today doesn’t always look like extreme hunger.
It looks like fast food at the end of the month when food stamps run out.
Rural “food deserts,” where few food banks reach.
Its legacy is diabetes and high blood pressure.
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President Trump’s animosity towards U.S. intelligence agencies has been known since before his inauguration.
But for the first time, @DraperRobert tells the bigger story of how it has transformed the intelligence community. nyti.ms/3krV5GH .@DraperRobert spoke to 40 current and former intelligence officials, lawmakers and congressional staff, including 15 people who worked in or closely with the intelligence community during Trump’s presidency
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Black communities like Grays Ferry in Philadelphia shoulder a disproportionate burden of the nation’s pollution. When its residents began falling sick, the community began to fight back. nyti.ms/30gS83C According to 2016 EPA data, the massive 150-year-old refinery that looms over Grays Ferry was responsible for the bulk of toxic air emissions in Philadelphia. nyti.ms/30gS83C

As the planet heats and crops fail, millions of people will be forced to choose between flight or death.

New research suggests that climate change will cause humans to move at an unprecedented scale.

And for many, this great migration has already begun. nyti.ms/3jrgZZY The New York Times Magazine and @propublica joined with the @pulitzercenter in an effort to model, for the first time, how people will migrate because of climate change. nyti.ms/3jrgZZY

29 authors. 29 short stories. An entire issue with all new fiction
nyti.ms/31Rug7U This week, we're bringing you a special issue filled with new short stories from Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Edwidge Danticat, Yiyun Li, Rachel Kushner, David Mitchell, Leila Slimani and many more writers: nyti.ms/3eb80Io

America has an unseen skeleton: its caste system.

A cover story by @Isabelwilkerson, out in print today.

nyti.ms/38u4N5S Caste is the granting or withholding of respect, status, honor, attention, privileges, resources, and human kindness to someone on the basis of their standing in the hierarchy

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If black lives are to matter in America, the nation must pay its debts. A new essay by Nikole Hannah-Jones.
nyti.ms/37UoByX The prosperity of this country is inextricably linked with the forced labor of the ancestors of 40 million black Americans.

And for black lives to truly matter, this country must move beyond slogans and symbolism, @nhannahjones writes nyti.ms/37UoByX

We asked writers, artists, photographers to tell us what they learned in quarantine. From learning to play the piano to inventing a new game for their daughters — these are the things our contributors have been doing nyti.ms/2TrVSLO Paolo Pellegrin is a conflict photographer who has been documenting historic events around the world for decades.

Now, isolated with his family in quarantine, he turned the camera on them for the first time

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Val Kilmer was the unlikeliest movie star in Hollywood history. But he was equally a fringe weirdo. @taffyakner profiles the 80s movie star (and HUGE Mark Twain-head)
nyti.ms/35D0pA3 Val Kilmer got into acting because he wanted to perform serious roles, but the bigger they came, the more empty they were.

His whole thing is telling stories, but at one point he didn’t yet know which story he was telling

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.@amandahess interviewed 26 current and former Wing employees — from workers in cooking and cleaning to management. Most told a similar story: how excitement about their feminist workplace turned into anxiety and disgust due to the way they were treated nyti.ms/33rQVGp At first, they were relieved to have landed at a company built by women and intended as a “women’s utopia.” But soon, they realized that the Wing’s utopia was built to empower a very particular kind of woman nyti.ms/33rQVGp

25 songs that matter now.
Our annual Music Issue is here: nyti.ms/2xxFEsu The songs that follow range from the mindbogglingly popular to the fairly obscure nyti.ms/2xxFEsu

Huge (mostly rural) parts of America lack ready access to autopsies or trained death investigators. nyti.ms/2vhkQ7B For a month in 2015, anyone who died in Montana had to be transported to South Dakota or Washington if an autopsy was needed. nyti.ms/2vhkQ7B

This week we’re publishing a new story as part of The 1619 Project: For hundreds of years, enslaved people were bought and sold in America. Today most of the sites of this trade are forgotten. nyti.ms/2UM02zs Nearly 1.2 million enslaved men, women and children were sold in the United States between approximately 1760 and 1860.

And the accounts of enslaved people themselves tell how the auction block could be more feared than a lashing. nyti.ms/2UM02zs

Jim Walmsley is America’s best male ultra­runner. These are the kinds of races that it involves:
A 55-mile run in South Africa
A 106-mile mountain trudge in the Alps
A 100-mile race in Tennessee’s Frozen Head State Park
A 135-mile trek across Death Valley
nyti.ms/38kpOib Last June, Jim Walmsley broke his own record at the world’s oldest 100-mile trail race, with a time of 14 hours 9 minutes 28 seconds.

He ran almost 4 consecutive marathons up and down Northern California’s snowy mountains at an 8.5-minute-mile pace. nyti.ms/38kpOib

Here are our stories that received an @ASME1963 nomination today.

Nominated for Feature Photography: Eli Baden-Lasar's photo essay on his 32 half-siblings nyti.ms/2SsJjyo

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@ASME1963 Nominated for Podcasting: Three episodes of “1619,” hosted by @nhannahjones:

“The Fight for a True Democracy,”

“The Economy That Slavery Built” and

“The Birth of American Music”

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OUR JOINT INVESTIGATION WITH @propublica: For more than a decade after the FBI discounted evidence of official Saudi support for the 9/11 plot, agents continued to investigate Saudis with government connections nyti.ms/3aBtGgu @propublica Tim Golden and Sebastian Rotella examined the 9/11 case that divided the FBI: A small team of agents spent years investigating whether one of Washington’s closest allies was involved in the worst terror attack in U.S. history. This is their story. nyti.ms/3aBtGgu