‘You Have to Be Girl-Power Tough’: Pageant Competitors Weigh in on Miss America
Miss South Carolina, Ms. Senior Florida and other titleholders reflect on beauty pageants and the changes coming to Miss America.
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CreditDavid Howells/Corbis, via Getty Images Kate Spade’s Suicide Prompts Self-Disclosure and an Outpouring of Empathy
Several readers responded to the news of Kate Spade’s death on Tuesday by talking about their experiences with suicidal depression and the loss of friends and relatives.
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Credit True Tales of ‘Sex and the City’
The HBO show changed New York by making new New Yorkers. These are the stories of our “Sex and the City” dreams — and nightmares.
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Credit Dean Baquet, Times Executive Editor, Chats With Stephen Colbert About Russia Inquiry Coverage
“Newsrooms are the most beautiful, deeply flawed places,” Mr. Baquet said.“We make mistakes. When we catch them, we own up to them.”
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Credit We Collected and Published ISIS’ Internal Documents. What Questions Do You Have?
Our journalists and top newsroom lawyer will answer questions about our recent investigation into internal Islamic State files taken from Iraq.
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Credit Debate Over the Statue of a 19th-Century Gynecologist Continues
A column on J. Marion Sims drew impassioned responses from readers, several arguing that the doctor has been needlessly vilified by modern observers.
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Credit A Playful Headline. Confusion Ensues. An Editor Explains.
Scores of readers, not to mention a few colleagues, contacted our standards desk urgently to point out what they believed was an embarrassing typo.
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Credit Cute Shoes Are Useless, and Other Lessons From Three Months Traveling the World
Our 52 Places Traveler answers readers’ questions about the journey so far and traveling alone, as a woman.
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Credit How The Times Decides When to Publish Leaked News
Charlie Savage, a Times Washington correspondent, explains the legality and ethics of publishing confidential and/or classified information.
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Credit Behind the New York Times Best-Seller (‘Not Best-Reviewed’) Lists
Part data scientists, part investigative journalists, our best-seller list editors apply rigorous standards of inclusion to sales reports from tens of thousands of stores across the United States.
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Credit We Stand Corrected: How The Times Handles Errors
Rogene Jacquette, The Times’s corrections editor, explains our process for correcting mistakes.
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Credit The Art and Etiquette of a New York Times Restaurant Review
Pete Wells, The Times’s restaurant critic, answers frequently asked questions about our guidelines for judging a meal.
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Credit Who Gets a New York Times Wedding Announcement?
Dos and don’ts for submitting your nuptials to The Times.
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Credit Every Time I Thought the Purdue Pharma OxyContin Story Was Over, I Was Wrong
Not only would a previously undisclosed prosecution report surface more than a decade after it was written, but as fate would have it, I would be in it.
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Credit How the Times Travel Section Prepares for Takeoff
We request your full attention as our editors demonstrate the safety features of this Travel section.
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Credit The Times’s Resident Polyglot (and Headline Master)
Danial Adkison, a senior staff editor on the paper’s Print Hub, is witty and succinct in English — and six other languages, too.
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Credit On a Clear Day You Can See an Ice Age: One Journalist’s View From the Upper West Side
I had climbed to the roof of our apartment building to see what the day might bring. Suddenly, I realized that the faraway hill was no ordinary hill.
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Credit From Staff to Stave: 5 Times Colleagues Who Combine Work and (Classical Music) Play
A conversation with the Qwerty Ensemble about how journalism and music overlap.
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Credit Across 7 Time Zones, a Morning Routine Is a Constant
What makes for a good morning? Experts have lots of advice. But what do you actually do? Here are some tips from real people.
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Credit ‘They Charged My Brother’
Drug users and relatives of people with addiction respond to a recent Times examination of overdose cases where prosecutors filed homicide charges against loved ones.
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Credit 9 People Reveal a Time They Racially Stereotyped a Stranger
After a string of episodes in which black people were treated unjustly while simply going about their business, we asked readers to tell us their stories.
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Credit Dear Meghan Markle: Say Yes to This Dress
Our fashion-forward and royal-obsessed readers imagine Meghan Markle’s bridal gown.
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Credit Your Best Advice for a Happy Marriage (CC: Meghan and Harry)
In honor of the royal wedding, we asked readers to share their tips for a happy marriage. Here’s what you said.
