Articles Tagged with #guides
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Personal Histories
A Lifetime’s One Regret
Does hindsight improve with age? People, ages five to 60, name their life’s biggest mistake and what they learned.
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Guides
The 2013 Good Gift Games
During holiday family get-togethers, don’t risk bringing up a topic everyone’s hoping to avoid. Instead, bring a board game and circumvent all conversation. Here are 10 of the best from 2013.
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Our Passions, Our Day Jobs
The Window Cleaner
Dirt is difficult to see on glass. That’s why so many people don’t bother to hire a professional for the job—they just can’t see what’s wrong.
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Explainers
Bombs Over Damascus
As another military intervention gets underway—with your name on it—we thought a brief tour of recent history in Syria would be useful, with lots of pictures.
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Press Pause
Explaining the Inexplicable
Readers of science reporting often find their heads spinning. Some of the science reporters do, too. A look at how the best of them make inexpertise an asset.
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Press Pause
The Best Ways to Ask Questions
On a March day in 2002, Walter Cronkite, Mikhail Gorbachev, Iggy Pop, and Donald Trump were all in the same New York City studio, on West 15th Street. The reason? Each...
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Press Pause
Checking Facts Like Freddie and Eleanor
For 45 years, Freddie Packard worked for the New Yorker as a “checker,” and for two decades he ran the magazine’s fact-checking department. Packard knew at least...
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Press Pause
Finding Boundaries to Cross
I spent my first day as a news editor circling a 750-acre farm in Virginia, where the body of a college student had surfaced months after she’d disappeared...
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Press Pause
One Person’s Version
Andrew Kitzenberg’s Twitter account had been dormant for a month when Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev began exchanging shots with the police outside his apartment. As the two Boston...
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Press Pause
How to Headline a Tornado
If good journalism leads us out of the woods, then bad journalism can strand us in the dark with our questions. Our series on healthy news consumption continues. On May 21,...
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Press Pause
Edward Snowden and Exploring Terra Incognita
The best journalism creates understanding where the world has created questions. When we confront the unknown, good journalism brings events, witnesses, storytellers, and an audience into a seamless line of...
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Realpolitiking
The Pyongyang Papers
North Korea’s intentions are unknown for the moment. But its memos are, at the very least, straightforward. The TMN staff uncovers a worldwide exclusive: internal documentation of the DPRK’s plans for the remaining calendar year.