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  1. games
    Tennis Lessons and Learning to Feel at Home in My BodyAt age 28, I began transitioning. But my body didn’t become mine until I picked up a racket.
    By P.E. Moskowitz
  2. money
    I’m Rich Now. It’s Weird.Confessions of an overnight tech millionaire.
    By Anonymous
  3. first person
    Cuomo Never Let Me Forget I Was a WomanIn my years of reporting on the governor, he frequently put his hands on my body and made inappropriate remarks. The point was to humiliate me.
    By Jessica Bakeman
  4. first person
    COVID Took My Grandfather. But It Wasn’t What Killed Him.His death, six months into the pandemic, is as political as it is biological.
    By Sarah Jones
  5. first person
    When Coronavirus Came to Sing Sing“We faced our worst fear: dying in prison.”
    By John J. Lennon
  6. first person
    Melania Trump’s Ex-BFF Tells (Almost) AllStephanie Winston Wolkoff thought Trumpworld conspired to destroy her reputation. The First Lady told her, “Don’t be so dramatic.”
    By Olivia Nuzzi
  7. health
    COVID-19 Is Horrible — So Is Worrying You Might Have Infected Someone ElseOn one of the last days of normal life, I brought cupcakes to my first grader’s class. I didn’t know yet that I had COVID-19.
    By Willy Blackmore
  8. first person
    ‘There’s a High Probability I Would Have Marched’: On Being Black and NYPDA black NYPD officer discusses fear, tokenism, and what police and George Floyd protesters have in common.
    As told to James D. Walsh
  9. first person
    ‘We Have No Superpowers’: A New Doctor’s Lessons From the PandemicGraduating early to join the front lines of New York’s battle against the coronavirus offers a crash course in medicine’s limitations.
    By Gabriel Redel-Traub
  10. diary of a hospital
    Diary of a Hospital: ‘It Felt Like a Calling’A Chicago anesthesiologist finds horror and hope in New York.
    As told to Anna Silman
  11. diary of a hospital
    Diary of a Hospital: A Nurse’s Worst DayAmid back-to-back codes, a patient’s family watches him die over FaceTime.
    As told to Anna Silman
  12. diary of a hospital
    Diary of a Hospital: The Last Face They See Before They Die“I found myself asking God to forgive me.”
    As told to Anna Silman
  13. diary of a hospital
    Diary of a Hospital: The Surgical Chief Changing Soiled Bedsheets“Everybody just did what needed to be done.”
    As told to Anna Silman
  14. diary of a hospital
    Diary of a Hospital: ‘Now I Know the Horror That They’re Living’As head nurse, Claudia thought she knew the isolation her patients felt as they died alone. Then she got sick.
    As told to Anna Silman
  15. diary of a hospital
    Diary of a Hospital: She Had to Move the Body Herself“We knew there were patients in the ER desperately waiting for that bed.”
    As told to Anna Silman
  16. diary of a hospital
    Diary of a Hospital: Losing Hope in the ICU“I don’t know how long I can keep doing this for.”
    As told to Anna Silman
  17. diary of a hospital
    Diary of a Hospital: A Surgeon’s Hope“When this is all over, New York will help save the country.”
    As told to Anna Silman
  18. covid diary
    How Do You Get Laptops to 1.1 Million Public-School Students?An East Village principal, sick at home, tries to take his school remote.
    By Petra Bartosiewicz
  19. first person
    My Evening With Erik Prince and Steve BannonI heard about a Young Republicans gathering in Manhattan where these two men would be speaking. So I bought a ticket.
    By James D. Walsh
  20. guinea pig
    I Lived Adam Neumann’s Perfect Life for a Day. It Was Terrible.I took part in every aspect of the We project, hoping to see the company as Neumann saw it — a brilliant ecosystem. Reality was much sadder.
    By James D. Walsh
  21. first person
    Donald Trump Assaulted Me, But He’s Not Alone on My List of Hideous Men“I made a list of hideous men in my life. It includes the president — who assaulted me in the dressing room of Bergdorf Goodman 23 years ago.”
    By E. Jean Carroll
  22. power
    History Will Recall, George Bush Did Nothing at AllI can’t forget the ways George H.W. Bush failed people with AIDS.
    By Garance Franke-Ruta
  23. in my experience
    I’m a Teacher in a Red State. The Teachers’ Strike Turned My Ballot Blue.I was a lifelong Republican. After seeing how little “trickled down” to my classroom and joining the Oklahoma walkout, I started voting for Democrats.
    By Emily Ozment as told to Sarah Jones
  24. first person
    A Hurricane Survivor in Puerto Rico on Growing Threats of Lawlessness and Hunger“I can’t believe there are going to be any normal days soon. We are far from normal.”
    As told to Jen Kirby
  25. ‘It Took Two Boat Rides’: Texans on Surviving the StormLocal stories from an unprecedented natural disaster in America’s fourth-largest city.
    By Jen Kirby
  26. politics
    Lessons From Putin’s Russia for Living in Trump’s AmericaOnce you lose faith in one institution, you start to lose faith in them all.
    By Michael Idov
  27. election 2016
    What It Felt Like to Spend Last Night in Trump CountryWith the Trump supporters I couldn’t hate.
    By Mark Jacobson
  28. I Remember Ken Griffey Jr.His Hall of Fame induction confirmed my guy was the guy. 
    By Rembert Browne
  29. Pope Francis Balances Humility, Vatican OpulenceAt mass in Rome, the pope is a champion of equality, but his words do not always match with the realities and traditions of the Catholic Church.
    By Lisa Miller
  30. essay
    Abdul-Rahman Kassig Is an American Taken Hostage by ISIS. He Is Also My Friend.I haven’t seen him in more than a year. I may never again because ISIS fighters are threatening to kill him.
    By Sulome Anderson
  31. first person
    The Marijuana Retirement: How My Parents Became Late-Life Pot MogulsMom and Dad abandoned their Norman Rockwell lifestyle in the Midwest, and started growing some of America’s best weed.
    By Anonymous