1. cityscape
    Does the Future of Public Housing Lie in These Cozy London Projects?Peter Barber’s cozy brickwork obliterates the usual concrete severity.
    By Justin Davidson
  2. climate change
    Rising Seas Are Going to Drown Way More Cities Than We’d Thought: StudyIn a low-warming scenario, we expected rising tides to cover areas currently occupied by 37 million people. The real number is closer to 150 million.
    By Eric Levitz
  3. intelligencer chats
    Will Condé Nast As We Know It Exist in a Decade?Intelligencer staffers discuss the prognosis for the diminished but still powerful magazine empire.
    By Benjamin Hart and Reeves Wiedeman
  4. wildfires
    Everything We Know About the California WildfiresHundreds of thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate in both Northern and Southern California.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  5. life after warming
    This Is What a Calm California Wildfire Season Looks Like NowA dozen wildfires are burning, and the state is at the mercy of the wind.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  7. media
    After the Fall of the Glossy Magazine, What’s Left of Condé Nast?Two years after Si Newhouse died (and Graydon Carter left), Anna Wintour and a new CEO map out the future they can afford.
    By Reeves Wiedeman
  8. pollution
    Air Pollution Increases Under Trump, Despite His Claim of World’s ‘Cleanest Air’EPA data shows that fine-particulate pollution rose 5.5 percent from 2016 to 2018, resulting in the premature deaths of 10,000 Americans.
    By Matt Stieb
  9. climate change
    Trump Sues California to Kill Cross-Border Cap-and-Trade MarketIt’s just the latest in the administration’s legal battles with the country’s largest state, which particularly target action on climate change.
    By Ed Kilgore
  10. trump administration
    USDA Watchdog to Investigate Department’s Alleged Suppression of Climate ScienceTrump administration appointees allegedly tried to bury research showing climate change’s devastating impacts on U.S. agriculture.
    By Eric Levitz
  11. intelligencer chats
    Is Annoying People the Right Way to Combat Climate Change?Intelligencer staffers discuss the intentionally divisive tactics of an upstart movement.
    By Benjamin Hart and David Wallace-Wells
  12. climate change
    Florida GOP Regrets ‘Lost’ Decade on Climate ChangeThe party is recovering from Rick Scott’s ban on using the phrase “climate change” ⁠— though isn’t quite ready to embrace climate policy.
    By Matt Stieb
  13. life after warming
    Extinction Rebellion and the Birth of a New Climate PoliticsThe U.K. movement’s claims might be exaggerated, but it shows us how the world is ready to grapple with the depth of the problem.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  14. democratic debates
    Tom Steyer’s First Debate: What to Expect From the Paradoxical 2020 DemocratThere will be a new face onstage Tuesday night: a rich guy running as the scourge of rich guys (including the one in the White House).
    By Ed Kilgore
  15. shep smith
    Shep Smith Out at Fox News Amid Tensions Over Trump CoverageAfter 23 years at the network, the anchor suddenly announced his departure on Friday afternoon.
    By Benjamin Hart
  16. racism
    Nearly a Century After the Black Wall Street Massacre, Tulsa Looks for BodiesReports of black corpses buried in a mass grave followed the 1921 massacre of 300 black people and dispossession of 10,000 more.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  17. wildfires
    PG&E Power Shutdown: Why California Is Going DarkAs many as 800,000 California homes will have their power cut Wednesday in an attempt to avoid wildfires.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  18. cityscape
    The New MoMA Tries to Get Out of Its Own Way. We’ll See If It Can.An attempt to manage the crush of visitors that’s made the museum hard to love.
    By Justin Davidson
  19. media
    Ronan Farrow’s New Book Reveals Details About Matt Lauer’s Rape AllegationHis new book, Catch and Kill, includes specifics about the complaint that got Matt Lauer fired.
    By Zoe Haylock
  20. just asking questions
    ‘Any Further Interference Is Likely to Be Disastrous’“Gaia theory” scientist James Lovelock talks about nuclear power and his hope that AI might save the planet from catastrophic warming.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  21. just asking questions
    ‘We Are Living in a Reality That Is Fundamentally Uncanny’The Great Derangement author Amitav Ghosh describes just how totally we’ve failed to face up to the unfolding climate crisis.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  22. interesting times
    Andrew Sullivan: The Moment of Truth for Brexit and TrumpThe year 2016 was a watershed in Anglo-American politics. But we might just be figuring out what it really meant.
    By Andrew Sullivan
  23. just asking questions
    ‘The House Is Burning Down and We’re Just Sitting Around Discussing It’Why Trust Science? author Naomi Oreskes on how much science it actually takes to move public opinion on climate change.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  24. climate change
    Trump and Fox News, Lacking a Rigorous Response to Greta Thunberg, Mock HerFor conservatives advancing a political agenda, impugning the motives and intelligence of children has never been off-limits.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  25. climate change
    Trump Mocks Greta Thunberg for Emotional Climate Speech“She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see!”
    By Adam K. Raymond
  26. book excerpt
    ‘The Long-Term Survival of Our Civilization Cannot Be Assured’Energy expert Vaclav Smil believes we must walk away from growth to keep the climate stable. Not that he thinks we will.
    By Vaclav Smil
  27. just asking questions
    Do We Need to Abandon Growth to Save the Planet?A conversation with scientist Vaclav Smil, author of Growth — a dense treatise that covers everything from “microorganisms to megacities.”
    By David Wallace-Wells
  28. just asking questions
    Marianne Williamson on Climate, Prayer, and the Media Elite’s Blind Spots“Sometimes the political media talk about what the people think through the filter of what they think.”
    By Olivia Nuzzi
  29. just asking questions
    The Necessity of Optimism in Fighting Climate ChangeA conversation with Christiana Figueres, former executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  30. cityscape
    The Hunters Point Library Was Too Expensive, and Is Worth ItA small, great civic monument on the Queens waterfront.
    By Justin Davidson
  31. green new deal
    The Future Is Ours for the TakingA conversation with Ann Pettifor, author of The Case for the Green New Deal.
    By Sarah Jones
  32. Climate Strikers Rally Across the GlobeProtesters around the globe turned out to participate in Friday’s climate strike
    By The Editors and Liz Rowley
  33. state of the world
    City by City, the World Turns Out for Climate StrikePhotos from striking cities, from marches in the Philippines and die-ins in Thailand, to the largest demonstration in Australian history.
    By The Editors
  34. climate change
    Welcome to the State of the WorldA series about climate change.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  35. just asking questions
    A Green New Deal Co-Author on the Rapid Evolution of Climate PolicyRhiana Gunn-Wright talks about just how fast climate politics have changed and why focusing on targets like two degrees may be beside the point.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  36. environment
    It’s Official: Trump Revokes California’s Power to Regulate Automobile EmissionsIt’s a sign of the administration’s adamant opposition to action on climate change, even at the expense of conservative states-rights principles.
    By Ed Kilgore
  37. just asking questions
    Chris Hayes and Ali Velshi on How TV News Covers Climate ChangeA conversation with the hosts of MSNBC’s two-day Democratic-primary forum on climate change.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  38. just asking questions
    Naomi Klein on Reckoning With the Radical Realities of Climate ChangeThe leftist intellectual talks the new political momentum on climate and whether we have to give up on consumption and growth to avert disaster.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  39. just asking questions
    Bill Gates on What a Plan to Fight Climate Change Really Means“I have not seen anything that’s worthy of the word plan because a plan has to involve not just the U.S. doing something.”
    By David Wallace-Wells
  40. state of the world
    It’s Greta Thunberg’s WorldBut it’s still burning. The extraordinary rise of a 16-year-old, and her Hail Mary climate movement.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  41. green new deal
    Another Obstacle for Climate Action: A Conservative Supreme CourtA new study suggests SCOTUS could obstruct the Green New Deal just as it once obstructed the original New Deal.
    By Ed Kilgore
  42. brett kavanaugh
    NYT Makes Major Correction That Undermines Its Big Brett Kavanaugh StoryA woman who Kavanaugh reportedly sexually harassed at Yale does not remember the alleged incident.
    By Benjamin Hart
  43. cityscape
    The Challenges of Constructing New York’s Tallest Apartment BuildingA conversation with the architects of the 131-story Central Park Tower.
    By Justin Davidson
  44. media
    Vice’s Race to Save Itself“Making do with less” has become a theme at the once-swaggering youth-media company, as executives try to find a willing buyer.
    By Reeves Wiedeman
  45. encounter
    Among the Moderate Chic at Bari Weiss’s Book PartyThe embattled Establishment assembles to celebrate the Times op-ed columnist’s book on anti-Semitism.
    By BORIS KACHKA
  46. green new deal
    When It Comes to the Future, Hope Is All There IsWe can’t afford to be helpless about climate change.
    By Sarah Jones
  47. climate change
    Jonathan Franzen’s Climate Pessimism Is Justified. His Fatalism Is Not.The novelist is right that we are very unlikely to keep warming below two degrees Celsius. He’s badly wrong about what that means.
    By Eric Levitz
  48. the national interest
    Trump Has Figured Out How to Corrupt the Entire GovernmentA spate of recent stories share a single theme: Trump’s stink is seeping into every corner of Washington.
    By Jonathan Chait
  49. climate change
    On Climate, Sanders and Warren Must Go NuclearBernie Sanders is right that the climate crisis demands a radical break with obsolete ideologies – but that includes anti-nuclear leftism.
    By Eric Levitz
  50. timeline
    The World’s Largest Ferris Wheel That Wasn’tBut might be one day? The circle of life of a Staten Island tourist attraction.
    By Matthew Sedacca
  51. media
    Trump Official Reinstated After False Accusation of Anti-SemitismAfter a misleading Bloomberg story led to his ouster, commentators from both sides of the political spectrum agree that Leif Olson got a raw deal.
    By Benjamin Hart
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