How Cheerleading Became So Acrobatic, Dangerous and Popular
For decades, the sport has been shaped in large part by one company — and one man.
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CreditDina Litovsky for The New York Times Their Son’s Death Was Devastating. Then Politics Made It Worse.
After Aiden Clark was killed in a school bus accident in Springfield, Ohio, his death inspired conspiracy theories, campaign lies and anti-immigrant hate. Now his family is the latest target.
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CreditErin Schaff/The New York Times How Everyone Got Lost in Netflix’s Endless Library
Ten years after Silicon Valley remade TV, it’s become clear how the streaming revolution distorted our collective viewing habits — and sense of the culture.
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CreditIllustration by Giacomo Gambineri An Acerbic Young Writer Takes Aim at the Identity Era
Tony Tulathimutte is a master comedian whose original and highly disturbing new book skewers liberal pieties.
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Why Did This Guy Put a Song About Me on Spotify?
The answer involves a remarkable — and lucrative, and ridiculous — scheme to game the way we find music today.
By Brett Martin
My Goldendoodle Spent a Week at Some Luxury Dog ‘Hotels.’ I Tagged Along.
How exactly did dogs take over our world? This writer journeys into the bespoke pet care industry to find out.
By Sam Apple
What Deathbed Visions Teach Us About Living
Researchers are documenting a phenomenon that seems to help the dying, as well as those they leave behind.
By Phoebe Zerwick
Sure, It Won an Oscar. But Is It Criterion?
How the Criterion Collection became the film world’s arbiter of taste.
By Joshua Hunt
Can Humans Endure the Psychological Torment of Mars?
NASA is conducting tests on what might be the greatest challenge of a Mars mission: the trauma of isolation.
By Nathaniel Rich
How Tom Sandoval Became the Most Hated Man in America
He turned last year’s season of ‘Vanderpump Rules’ into the best in reality TV’s history — and ruined his life in the process.
By Irina Aleksander
The Great Freight-Train Heists of the 21st Century
The explosion of the e-commerce economy has created an opportunity for thieves — and a conundrum for the railways.
By Malia Wollan
The Unthinkable Mental Health Crisis That Shook a New England College
Over six terrible months, professors and administrators at Worcester Polytechnic Institute took on the unofficial role of counselors during a spate of campus suicides.
By Jordan Kisner
The Whale Who Went AWOL
Hvaldimir escaped captivity and became a global celebrity. Now, no one can agree about what to do with him.
By Ferris Jabr
Behind the Scenes of the Most Spectacular Show on TV
Months of preparation, hundreds of staff, convoys of cutting-edge gear: inside the machine that crafts prime time’s most popular entertainment.
By Jody Rosen
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