1. climate change
    Even the Pope Can’t Make de Blasio Run on TimeIn the mayor’s defense, however, he can’t control the weather — although the mayors assembled in Rome would like to.
    By Jaime Fuller
  2. media
    Gawker’s Nick Denton Says This Is ‘Not the Company I Built’; Staffers DisagreeOne called his account “historically dubious.”
    By Margaret Hartmann
  3. media
    Gawker’s Existential CrisisIs the notoriously snarky media growing up, or falling apart?
    By Gabriel Sherman
  4. Top Gawker Editors Resign After Deletion of Controversial Post Gawker Media executive editor Tommy Craggs and Gawker.com editor-in-chief Max Read announced their resignations on Monday morning. 
    By Caroline Bankoff
  5. Ira Glass Is Establishing His Radio-Podcast EmpireHe now owns “This American Life” and “Serial.”
    By Jen Kirby
  7. media
    Keith Olbermann and ESPN Break Up, Once AgainThe network reportedly wanted him to stop it with the commentaries.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  8. media
    Jason Whitlock and the Messy Saga of ESPN’s ‘Black Grantland’He has been fired from the website he was supposed to create. The fallout is revealing cracks in ESPN’s empire.
    By Reeves Wiedeman
  9. encounter
    At the Batting Cage With the Woman Bringing a Sneaky Feminism to Fox SportsKatie Nolan, the mouthy, funny Garbage Time host, takes a few whacks at Chelsea Piers softballs and meathead fans.
    By Jessica Roy
  10. profile
    Jean Nouvel Is a Master Without a StyleTalking to the architecte terrible who can’t stand one of his new buildings.
    By Justin Davidson
  11. profile
    Jean Nouvel Is a Master Without a StyleTalking to the architecte terrible who can’t stand one of his new buildings.
    By Justin Davidson
  12. oops
    CNN Mistakes Dildos for ISISA parody ISIS flag at the London Pride parade got the network really hot and bothered.
    By Chas Danner
  13. media
    Lester Holt Is Still Friends With Brian WilliamsThe new NBC Nightly News anchor broke his silence about the scandal.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  14. great moments in fox news
    Fox & Friends Host Throws an Ax at a SoldierThat looks painful.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  15. life on earth
    The Sixth Mass Extinction May Actually Be HereA group of scientists have concluded a historic die-off is indeed under way, and humans will be among the threatened species.
    By Chas Danner
  16. So Far, 2015 Is the Hottest Year on RecordNot the good kind of hot, the bad climate-change kind.
    By Chas Danner
  17. religion
    How Pope Francis Is Reclaiming the Meaning of ‘Pro-Life’The pontiff’s climate encyclical invoked the religious — and even radical — origins of a term that had become distorted by politics
    By Lisa Miller
  18. media
    Why the Charleston Shooter Should Be Called a TerroristJon Stewart and many others argue that avoiding the term minimizes the attack on African-Americans.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  19. media
    Brian Williams Is Doing a Full Apology TourHe’s reportedly met with his colleagues in New York and D.C.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  20. media
    Brian Williams Is Out As Nightly News Anchor, But He’ll Stay at NBC Sub Lester Holt will take over permanently.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  21. timelines
    A Brief History of New Jersey’s Deadly Action ParkAs the amusement park prepares to bring back its notorious Cannonball Loop.
    By Nick Tabor
  22. media
    Roger Ailes’s Demotion Signals Power Shift Within Murdoch EmpireRupert Murdoch issues a stinging rebuke.
    By Gabriel Sherman
  23. the national interest
    Peggy Noonan Warns Pope About Hastily Endorsing Climate ScienceShe is a stickler for methodological rigor.
    By Jonathan Chait
  24. media
    Will James Murdoch Ever Control Roger Ailes?The younger Murdoch cares about climate change, but he also cares about the $1 billion Fox News nets annually.
    By Gabriel Sherman
  25. Slow Down, Everyone: James Murdoch Is Not Taking Over“Consider this the ascension of both sons, and not James.”  
    By Gabriel Sherman
  26. media
    Report: Rupert Murdoch to Step Down As 21st Century Fox CEOCNBC reports he’ll be replaced by his son, James.
    By Jessica Roy
  27. media
    Lester Holt Is Probably Replacing Brian Williams for GoodSources say it’s still unclear if BriWi will remain at NBC.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  28. the national interest
    Scientists Drop Science Bomb on Climate-Change SkepticsNow there’s no way conservatives can deny global warming, right?
    By Jonathan Chait
  29. design hunting
    Inside Governors Island’s New Oyster PavilionTurns out that slurping the bivalves is good for New York Harbor.
    By Wendy Goodman
  30. media
    The Bloggers Are UnionizingGawker becomes the first digital-only newsroom to unionize.
    By Jaime Fuller
  31. climate change
    Climate-Change-Deal Negotiators Are Terrified of Congress“We know the politics in the U.S.”
    By Jaime Fuller
  32. donald trump
    Reporter Resigned to Sharing Donald Trump’s Views on TradeThe potential presidential candidate offers unsolicited views on the free-trade debate in Congress.
    By Jaime Fuller
  33. debacles
    NBC Reportedly Looking for Something Else for Brian Williams to Do Rather than simply go back to anchoring Nightly News.
    By Caroline Bankoff
  34. media
    Bruce Jenner to Make Post-Transition Appearance in Vanity FairAnnie Leibovitz is reportedly set to shoot the story.
    By Caroline Bankoff
  35. the national interest
    Obama’s Clean Power Plan Is Modest, But It Can Save the WorldWhy does the coal industry hate a plan that does so little to hurt it?
    By Jonathan Chait
  36. much conservatism
    Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum Are Auditioning for the Same Part in 2016Which one will win the race to be 2016’s unapologetic social conservative?
    By Jaime Fuller
  37. culture
    In Defense of the 1970sThey’re still getting a bad rap, pace the Mad Men finale and Louis C.K.’s recent Saturday Night Live monologue. Here’s why that’s not fair.
    By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
  38. roasts
    Christie Prepares Expletive-Filled Audition for Next Comedy Central RoastThe New Jersey governor’s roast of the media didn’t stay off the record very long. 
    By Jaime Fuller
  39. white house
    Obama on Climate Change: ‘We Need to Act Now’“Make no mistake: It will impact how our military defends our country.”
    By Jaime Fuller
  40. Botanist Discovers First Autumn Man (Who Might Just Be Shakespeare)(But perhaps isn’t.)
    By Jaime Fuller
  41. the national circus
    Why Do America’s Race Riots So Precisely Mirror Each Other?National amnesia, generation after generation after generation.
    By Frank Rich
  42. media
    Facebook’s Instant Articles Are HereThe new Facebook feature allows publishers to publish entire articles directly to the news feed. Inevitably, everybody has an opinion about it.
    By Jessica Roy
  43. media
    ViralNova: New York’s Most Cynical Media CompanyUnencumbered by so-called “journalistic ethics” and not beholden to institutional standards, ViralNova is free to pursue the types of “entertaining content” they excel at producing: material that is vaguely manipulative, mostly sappy, and wholly shareable. Here’s how they do it.
    By Jessica Roy
  44. media
    The New York Times–Facebook Deal Is Here It could represent a seismic change for both the publishing industry and for the media company itself.
    By Gabriel Sherman
  45. truthiness
    How Solid Is This Sy Hersh Story About the bin Laden Raid?After reading the story, some find it obviously true, while others finish with nothing but skepticism. 
    By Jaime Fuller
  46. media
    Bill Simmons Is Leaving ESPNESPN president announces, “I’ve decided that I’m not going to renew his contract.”
    By Jaime Fuller
  47. media
    Droga5 and the Art of the SellIt wants to be the consummate modern advertising agency. Don Draper would approve.
    By Jessica Pressler
  48. media
    Droga5 and the Art of the Sell, A Half-Century After Mad MenIt wants to be the consummate modern advertising agency. Don Draper would approve.
    By Jessica Pressler
  49. journalism
    Journalists Say Mayweather Prevented Them From Covering Fight Michelle Beadle and Rachel Nichols have both been vocal about Mayweather’s history of domestic violence.
    By Caroline Bankoff
  50. Phillip Alder Says Good-bye to His New York Times Bridge ColumnA Q&A with the person who has been writing about the card game for the Times since 2005. 
    By Jaime Fuller
  51. urban planning
    Which New York Is Yours?Talking to Jeremiah Moss of Vanishing New York and Nikolai Fedak of New York YIMBY, 50 years after the Landmark Law.
    By Justin Davidson
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