February 18, 2026
A stray thought on being a media doomer optimist
Dear Reader, Five years ago, when I looked at how the media landscape was changing, let me confess that I wondered...
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November 25, 2025
Messages in a Bottle
A Times profile of the new NIH director: In September, the New York Times published a profile by our editor of Jay...
November 10, 2025
What Your Gift Can Do
Our goal for this year’s giving campaign is $250,000. Here is what your gift can achieve: $50 — Cover two...
November 4, 2025
Why science and tech writing is not up to this moment
Dear Reader, With some admirable exceptions, American science and tech writing is a drag. The world changes but the...
March 7, 2025
Messages in a Bottle
The news: Two articles from this issue were first published on our website in response to unfolding events: “The...
December 4, 2024
Announcing a Matching Gift Challenge
Dear Reader — We are thrilled to announce that a group of five individual readers has seeded a $70,000 match toward...
November 21, 2024
The Editors Interview The Editors
Dear Reader — A magazine is not a bundle of ideas. It’s a relationship: a deep ongoing collaboration between...
November 20, 2024
Making Sense
Dear Reader — There is a recurring theme I have heard over the last few years from commentators on the right, and in...
October 18, 2024
Our Writers
Dear Reader — In our past giving campaigns, we have offered our readers a grand vision of the purpose of The New...
October 2, 2024
The Builder Issue
In the last few years, we have become awash in talk about how the West doesn’t build anymore. Widely discussed...