11 of Our Best Weekend Reads
06/15/2019Welcome to the weekend. It was a week of news about vaccinations and ship attacks. But now it’s time to slow down, breathe and catch up with some great journalism you may have missed.
The day the music burned
It was the biggest disaster in the history of the music business — and almost nobody knew. This is the story of the 2008 Universal fire.
[Quick version: “Recordings by Elton John, Nirvana and Thousands More Lost in Fire.”]
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Her evangelical megachurch was her world. Then her daughter said she was molested by a minister.
Evangelical churches have long distanced themselves from the sexual abuse crisis that has consumed the Catholic Church. But a reckoning has arrived.
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Nazis killed her father. Then she fell in love with one.
Their billionaire descendants, who control Krispy Kreme, Stumptown and other brands, are grappling with the exposure of an unspeakable secret.
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The making of a YouTube radical
Caleb Cain was a college dropout looking for direction. He turned to YouTube, where he was pulled into a world filled with conspiracy theories, misogyny and racism.
[Also read: “When Rohingya Refugees Fled to India, Hate on Facebook Followed”]
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How Old Should a President Be? With So Many Choices, Democrats Are Sharply Divided
The 2020 Democratic field has one of the youngest presidential candidates in modern history and the oldest one.
How old should a president be? With so many choices, Democrats are sharply divided
The 2020 Democratic field has one of the youngest presidential candidates in modern history and the oldest one.
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6 places in Europe offering shelter from the crowds
Day-trippers, cruise ships, home-sharing, cheap airlines: They all contribute to tourism saturation in European hot spots. But there are quieter alternatives, if you know where to look.
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Mindy Kaling on not being the long-suffering Indian woman
“I always had so much impatience and ambition — these things that if you had them, you were supposed to have them secretly.”
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You make the call: Seeking the best two-bedroom condo in Williamsburg
The Real Estate section has taken a longtime feature, The Hunt, and made it interactive. Try your hand at guessing which apartment a Bay Area transplant chooses in Brooklyn.
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Ali Stroker on winning the Tony: ‘I was meant to be in this seat’
The flirtatious Ado Annie of Broadway’s “Oklahoma!” relishes the chance to embody what a disabled performer can accomplish.
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Nicky Barnes, ‘Mr. Untouchable’ of heroin dealers, is dead at 78
Sentenced to life in prison, he informed on former associates, disappeared into the witness protection program and died in 2012 — a death unnoticed until now.
[Also read: “How I Found Out Nicky Barnes Was Dead”]
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From Opinion: My father, out to sea
A single question kept haunting me: Why did he leave me?
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