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  1. oj simpson
    Thankfully, O.J. Simpson Was One of a KindOnly someone who straddled the fault lines of race, culture, and sports could have produced such a frenzied media spectacle.
    By Will Leitch
  2. obituaries
    Henry Kissinger, the Devil at the Dinner PartyHenry Kissinger’s long final act — after Harvard and D.C. and Cambodia — was spent at New York’s more rarefied tables.
    By Choire Sicha
  3. royals
    Queen Elizabeth Was the First Monarch We Thought We KnewCrowned at the dawn of the TV age, she was defined by her distance as much as her ubiquity.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  4. trump family
    Ivana Trump Is Dead at 73New York City’s chief medical examiner has determined that her death was an accidental fall.
    By Matt Stieb
  5. obits
    Madeleine Albright Has DiedThe first woman to serve as U.S. Secretary of State died on Wednesday at 84.
    By Danielle Cohen
  6. rip
    Desmond Tutu, Human-Rights Activist, Dies at 90Prince Harry, Meghan Markle, President Obama, and more paid tribute to the South African icon on Sunday, December 26.
    By Olivia Truffaut-Wong
  7. appreciation
    Joan Didion’s Greatest Two-Word SentenceThe power of an ice-cold, unflinching gaze.
    By Molly Fischer
  8. obituaries
    John Warner Was the Glamorous Republican Heretic of the SenateThe late senator figured he’d only be remembered for his marriage to Elizabeth Taylor, but it should be for his struggle against extremism in the GOP.
    By Ed Kilgore
  9. obituaries
    Fritz Mondale, Public ServantThe old-school liberal and party loyalist redefined the vice-presidency.
    By Ed Kilgore
  10. new york city
    David Dinkins, New York’s First and Only Black Mayor, Has Died at 93Dinkins, who served as mayor from 1989 to 1993, was reportedly found at home in Lenox Hill on Monday and appears to have died from natural causes.
    By Matt Stieb
  11. obituaries
    RIP Herman Cain, Pizza Magnate and Proto-TrumpCain was a viable 2012 presidential candidate until sexual-misconduct allegations brought him down fast.
    By Ed Kilgore
  12. we ❤ mg
    Milton Glaser, Co-founder of New York Magazine and Creator of ‘I❤NY,’ Dies at 91A giant of graphic design and illustration for seven decades.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  13. media
    Susan Brownmiller on How The Village Voice Made Her a WriterThe editing was light; the opportunities were endless.
    By Susan Brownmiller
  14. r.i.p.
    Muhammad Ali, Legend In and Out of the Boxing Ring, Is Dead at 74He had been fighting Parkinson’s disease for decades. 
    By Chas Danner
  15. obituaries
    Former First Lady Nancy Reagan Has DiedShe was 94.
    By Chas Danner
  16. obituaries
    Creator of Pink Plastic Flamingos Dies at 79Donald Featherstone died on Monday after leaving his mark on lawns across the world.
    By Jaime Fuller
  17. obituaries
    Scandal Kills the ‘Hastert Rule’; Congressional Gridlock Expected to SurviveThe term “the majority of the majority” lives on.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  18. scandal-stained wretches
    Can Eliot Spitzer Change the First Line of His Obituary?He says yes; we asked the obit writers.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  19. ed koch
    AIDS Controversy Added to Ed Koch’s New York Times ObituaryAn initial omission faced criticism on Twitter.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  20. celebrity deaths
    ‘Stormin’ Norman’ Schwarzkopf Dies at 78It’s been twenty years since he was a household name, but he was a big one.
    By Adam Martin
  21. obituaries
    Gore Vidal Dead at 86Owing to complications from pneumonia.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  22. obituaries
    Christopher Hitchens Is Dead at 62 [Updated]He didn’t believe in resting in peace.
    By Menachem Kaiser and Noreen Malone
  23. sad things
    Meet the Press Host Bill Monroe DiesMonroe was the show’s fourth moderator.
    By Julie Gerstein
  24. j. paul getty iii
    Oil Heir J. Paul Getty III DiesThe heir to the Getty oil fortune was 54.
    By Julie Gerstein
  25. early and eternal
    Dead People Campaigning Against Democrats in Growing NumbersThe core demographic has turned against Democrats this year.
    By Dan Amira
  26. obituaries
    Chuck Todd’s Goatee, 2002–2009The life and times of a legend.
    By Dan Amira