| 1 | Aug 14, '19 | In August of 1619, a ship carrying enslaved Africans arrived at a port in Virginia. On the 400th anniversary of this fateful moment, it is finally time to truthfully tell the story | 14.1× | 0 | 5.5k | 2.8k | 495 |
| 2 | Nov 3, '18 | We're publishing next week's cover story early: U.S. law enforcement failed to see the threat of white nationalism. From the FBI to the DHS to state police — now they have no idea | 13.2× | 0 | 4k | 2.8k | 250 |
| 3 | Jul 7, '21 | Lil Nas X wants to be not just a pop star but a visibly gay one — founded on genuine pride and comfort. After years of hiding himself, he is trying to be a hitmaker, a pop star, an | 9.9× | 0 | 5.4k | 1.1k | 123 |
| 4 | Feb 22, '19 | He makes 1.2 million dollars a year. He’s unhappy because his work feels meaningless. He can’t take a pay cut because he feels locked into the lifestyle. He's one of America's many | 8.1× | 0 | 1k | 257 | 147 |
| 5 | May 4, '17 | K-Pop has taken most of the world by storm, but Chile represents a somewhat unlikely conquest. | 8.0× | 0 | 2.9k | 2.2k | 0 |
| 6 | Nov 3, '18 | White supremacists and other far-right extremists have killed far more people since Sept. 11, 2001, than any other category of domestic extremist. | 7.8× | 0 | 2.5k | 2k | 52 |
| 7 | May 4, '20 | “Black Americans have also been, and continue to be, foundational to the idea of American freedom.” Congratulations to @nhannahjones, whose #1619 Project essay has won the Pulitzer | 7.6× | 0 | 4.3k | 1.1k | 67 |
| 8 | Aug 14, '19 | Each of the stories in the #1619project takes up a modern phenomenon and reveals its history. From the lack of healthcare to mass incarceration, from the brutality of capitalism to | 6.8× | 0 | 3k | 1.2k | 252 |
| 9 | Feb 22, '22 | Our cover story this week: @dannyhakim and @Jo_becker report on how blurred the lines between Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife Ginni Thomas’s interests became during the effort | 6.4× | 0 | 2.2k | 1.3k | 141 |
| 10 | Mar 7, '19 | Introducing our annual Music Issue: The 25 songs that matter right now. | 6.3× | 0 | 2.6k | 770 | 362 |
| 11 | Nov 16, '17 | A major Times investigation suggests that the U.S.-led air war against ISIS in Iraq is killing far more civilians than previously believed. | 5.9× | 0 | 1.6k | 1.7k | 1 |
| 12 | Jul 2, '19 | The United States women’s national soccer team is the best in the world and has been for decades. By their players’ calculations, they are making as little as 38 cents to their mal | 4.6× | 0 | 2.2k | 764 | 27 |
| 13 | Aug 27, '18 | After just 18 months, Trump has “flipped” two circuits — the Sixth and Seventh — from liberal to conservative. Two more — the Eighth and the 11th — are on the verge of tipping. | 4.5× | 0 | 1.5k | 699 | 21 |
| 14 | Aug 14, '19 | The goal of the #1619project is to reframe American history, and to place the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of the story we te | 4.0× | 0 | 2k | 679 | 55 |
| 15 | Jul 7, '19 | The United States women’s national soccer team is the best in the world and has been for decades. By their players’ calculations, they are making as little as 38 cents to their mal | 3.8× | 0 | 1.9k | 678 | 24 |
| 16 | Feb 22, '19 | A living wage is an antidepressant. It is a sleep aid. A diet. A stress reliever. It is a contraceptive, preventing teenage pregnancy. It prevents premature death. It shields child | 3.7× | 0 | 1.9k | 683 | 36 |
| 17 | Feb 23, '19 | A living wage is an antidepressant. It is a sleep aid. A stress reliever. It is a contraceptive, preventing teenage pregnancy. It prevents premature death. It shields children from | 3.6× | 0 | 1.7k | 669 | 33 |
| 18 | Mar 12, '20 | .@Harry_Styles managed to repurpose the past to become a new kind of star. “Adore You” lets him show off the full, androgynous range of his voice | 3.6× | 0 | 2.3k | 384 | 94 |
| 19 | Jun 15, '20 | "The police are a reflection of a society. They’re not a rogue alien organization that came to torment the black community. They’re enforcing segregation. The police are, in some r | 3.5× | 0 | 1.6k | 650 | 81 |
| 20 | Feb 24, '19 | A living wage is an antidepressant. It is a sleep aid. A stress reliever. It is a contraceptive, preventing teenage pregnancy. It prevents premature death. It shields children from | 3.4× | 0 | 1.8k | 590 | 27 |
| 21 | Aug 1, '18 | Thirty years ago, we almost saved the planet. This is the story of how we failed. | 3.1× | 0 | 975 | 631 | 118 |
| 22 | Feb 23, '19 | A living wage is an antidepressant. It is a sleep aid. A stress reliever. It is a contraceptive, preventing teenage pregnancy. It prevents premature death. It shields children from | 3.1× | 0 | 1.8k | 494 | 26 |
| 23 | Oct 23, '15 | We asked @nytmag readers: If you could go back and kill Hitler as a baby, would you do it? (What's your response?) | 3.1× | 0 | 522 | 676 | 13 |
| 24 | Sep 8, '18 | Her ambition, Naomi Osaka once told a reporter, was “to be the very best, like no one ever was” She explained: “I’m sorry; that’s the Pokémon theme song. But, yeah, to be the very | 3.1× | 0 | 1.6k | 554 | 25 |
| 25 | Oct 7, '20 | If language is a power game, then Bad Bunny is winning. Our 2020 Culture Issue is here. | 3.0× | 0 | 1.4k | 468 | 55 |
| 26 | Aug 12, '19 | It's been 400 years since the first ship carrying enslaved Africans arrived at Virginia. Tomorrow at 7 p.m. ET, we'll remember this anniversary with an evening of conversation feat | 3.0× | 0 | 1.3k | 621 | 55 |
| 27 | Aug 29, '18 | THIS WEEK'S COVER: Riz Ahmed does not want to do away with categories; he wants them to be big enough to include reality. He wants them to encompass No Man’s Land. | 2.9× | 0 | 1.5k | 370 | 33 |
| 28 | Dec 27, '22 | Kendrick Lamar, the greatest rapper of his generation. Dave Free, creator of some of the most celebrated music videos of the last decade. Their dynamic reaches back decades. Now, t | 2.9× | 242k | 891 | 171 | 41 |
| 29 | May 6, '20 | Val Kilmer was the unlikeliest movie star in Hollywood history. But he was equally a fringe weirdo. @taffyakner profiles the 80s movie star (and HUGE Mark Twain-head) | 2.9× | 0 | 1.2k | 295 | 198 |
| 30 | Dec 5, '19 | At 23, Josh Owens quit film school to work as a video editor for Alex Jones. This is his account of the years he spent within the Infowars empire. | 2.8× | 0 | 1.2k | 326 | 276 |
| 31 | Apr 8, '15 | At 84, Toni Morrison sits comfortably as one of the greatest authors in American history. | 2.7× | 0 | 763 | 898 | 0 |
| 32 | Oct 3, '18 | THIS WEEK’S COVER: @ladygaga isn’t done shape-shifting yet. @rachsyme profiles the ‘‘A Star Is Born’’ actress in her latest reinvention. | 2.7× | 0 | 1.4k | 511 | 9 |
| 33 | Apr 12, '17 | Four years after her debut album, @lorde is back with a testimonial to heartbreak and solitude. | 2.7× | 0 | 1.3k | 548 | 0 |
| 34 | Feb 3, '21 | “Sometimes I wonder if the Asian-American experience is what it’s like when you’re thinking about everyone else, but nobody else is thinking about you.” In this week's cover story, | 2.7× | 0 | 1.4k | 326 | 97 |
| 35 | Nov 3, '18 | White supremacists and other far-right extremists have killed far more people since Sept. 11, 2001, than any other category of domestic extremist. | 2.7× | 0 | 885 | 665 | 25 |
| 36 | Feb 22, '19 | A living wage is an antidepressant. It is a sleep aid. A diet. A stress reliever. It is a contraceptive, preventing teenage pregnancy. It prevents premature death. It shields child | 2.6× | 0 | 1.2k | 500 | 35 |
| 37 | Mar 12, '20 | In “The Man,” Taylor Swift channels her sly braggadocio into a broader protest against the sexism and skepticism that all women face | 2.5× | 0 | 1.7k | 258 | 37 |
| 38 | Mar 12, '22 | "Mitski’s music grants people whom society often treats as marginal the screaming vividness of main characters, and this is a huge part of its appeal." @lindsayzoladz profiles @mit | 2.4× | 0 | 1.7k | 205 | 77 |
| 39 | Mar 12, '20 | 25 songs that matter now. Our annual Music Issue is here: | 2.3× | 0 | 1.1k | 245 | 192 |
| 40 | Jun 12, '17 | This week's cover: The Long, Lonely Road of Chelsea Manning, by @matthewshaer | 2.3× | 0 | 982 | 447 | 1 |
| 41 | Jul 23, '20 | As the planet heats and crops fail, millions of people will be forced to choose between flight or death. New research suggests that climate change will cause humans to move at an u | 2.3× | 0 | 705 | 455 | 121 |
| 42 | Nov 3, '18 | The Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism has reported that 71% of the extremist-related fatalities in the United States between 2008 and 2017 were committed by members of t | 2.2× | 0 | 841 | 550 | 14 |
| 43 | Aug 23, '17 | "It’s not that just that Donald Trump is president. It’s that he has empowered the worst people in the world." | 2.2× | 0 | 948 | 442 | 0 |
| 44 | Feb 8, '21 | “I didn’t want to be something cool. I didn’t want to be calm. I wanted to be a player that made you say, ‘Did you see that?’ ” We interviewed Kevin Garnett. | 2.2× | 0 | 950 | 261 | 116 |
| 45 | Nov 3, '18 | “What we need to worry about is the guy who is riled up by this rhetoric and decides to go out and do something on his own. We have people who are ticking time bombs” Read the full | 2.1× | 0 | 955 | 466 | 11 |
| 46 | Nov 3, '18 | In this atmosphere of apparent indifference on the part of government officials and law enforcement, a virulent, and violent, far-right movement has grown and metastasized. | 2.1× | 0 | 850 | 469 | 10 |
| 47 | Jun 1, '19 | When Ikeem Jones starts to dance for commuters on the E train, nobody looks away. Commuters ask to be amazed — and he delivers: | 2.0× | 0 | 1.2k | 253 | 23 |
| 48 | Aug 14, '19 | “Without the idealistic, strenuous and patriotic efforts of black Americans, our democracy today would most likely look very different — it might not be a democracy at all.” — Niko | 1.9× | 0 | 969 | 328 | 21 |
| 49 | Nov 20, '18 | A decade ago, the U.S. mandated the use of vegetable oil in biofuels, leading to industrial-scale deforestation — and a huge spike in carbon emissions. Palm oil was supposed to hel | 1.9× | 0 | 704 | 451 | 27 |
| 50 | Sep 23, '18 | Welcome to New York, where the sewer rats are probably laughing at you. No really, they are, and the sound artist @h0use has been recording them for years. Listen to what rat laugh | 1.9× | 0 | 746 | 281 | 41 |
| 51 | Jun 28, '20 | “It is time for this country to pay its debt. It is time for reparations.” Our cover story this week by @nhannahjones, out in print today. | 1.9× | 0 | 473 | 186 | 34 |
| 52 | Sep 25, '18 | “Her reporting on segregation in housing and education has performed a critical public service.” Congratulations to our very own @nhannahjones, winner of the 2018 John Chancellor A | 1.8× | 0 | 945 | 294 | 24 |
| 53 | Oct 11, '18 | Between 2030 and 2050, climate change is expected to cause the deaths of roughly 250,000 men, women and children each year. | 1.8× | 0 | 549 | 417 | 32 |
| 54 | May 9, '18 | This week's cover story: Children of the Opioid Epidemic by Jennifer Egan | 1.8× | 0 | 490 | 207 | 33 |
| 55 | Dec 11, '15 | Instagram — free, chaotic and immediate — has become a place to watch great photographers work out their obsessions. | 1.8× | 0 | 1.2k | 223 | 0 |
| 56 | Mar 26, '17 | Our next cover story is up early: Inside Trump's efforts to get his agenda through Congress. By @draperrobert | 1.8× | 0 | 696 | 405 | 0 |
| 57 | Oct 23, '15 | lol | 1.8× | 0 | 595 | 495 | 1 |
| 58 | Feb 26, '19 | A living wage is an antidepressant. It is a sleep aid. A stress reliever. It is a contraceptive, preventing teenage pregnancy. It prevents premature death. It shields children from | 1.8× | 0 | 854 | 314 | 32 |
| 59 | Sep 14, '18 | This week’s cover: 🚨🚨🚨 MAYA RUDOLPH, profiled by @caityweaver 🚨🚨🚨 | 1.7× | 0 | 1.1k | 171 | 22 |
| 60 | Nov 3, '18 | “We willingly turned the other way on white supremacy because there were real political costs to talking about white supremacy,” says the national-security strategist P. W. Singer. | 1.7× | 0 | 700 | 371 | 11 |
| 61 | Feb 4, '20 | Over the course of two decades, Deutsche Bank lent Donald Trump more than $2 billion. If they ever become public, Deutsche Bank’s Trump records could serve as a Rosetta Stone to de | 1.7× | 0 | 658 | 383 | 18 |
| 62 | Jun 5, '19 | Our cover this week: Madonna at 60. @vanessagrigor profiles the original queen of pop | 1.7× | 0 | 978 | 195 | 11 |
| 63 | Jan 29, '21 | "I’m not scared of death. I don’t know what it is. How could I be afraid of something I don’t know anything about?" Revisiting our January 10th interview with the late Cicely Tyson | 1.7× | 0 | 972 | 222 | 40 |
| 64 | Aug 7, '19 | Nicolas Cage is a performer who sees possibilities in art — and maybe life — that no one else does. | 1.6× | 0 | 652 | 207 | 77 |
| 65 | Nov 20, '15 | 'Just Get Us in the Room': The Women of Hollywood Speak Out, by Maureen Dowd. | 1.6× | 0 | 578 | 450 | 0 |
| 66 | Apr 18, '18 | This week's cover: Can Dirt Save the Earth? Agriculture could pull carbon out of the air and into the soil — but it would mean a whole new way of thinking about how to tend the lan | 1.6× | 0 | 717 | 312 | 8 |
| 67 | Jan 17, '21 | "America will not survive the big lie just because a liar is separated from power." The historian @TimothyDSnyder writes on Trump, the mob and what comes next. | 1.6× | 0 | 655 | 312 | 36 |
| 68 | Aug 6, '22 | "I am absolutely fascinated by the number of things that I did in the ’80s and ’90s with 'Sandman' that are now getting yelled at for being quote-unquote woke," Neil Gaiman tells u | 1.6× | 0 | 1.1k | 134 | 47 |
| 69 | Sep 8, '18 | "Serena’s excellence comes with the ability to imagine herself achieving a new kind of history for all of us." — "The Meaning of Serena Williams," Claudia Rankine (from 2015) | 1.5× | 0 | 877 | 233 | 11 |
| 70 | Nov 10, '18 | The incarcerated women who fight California’s wildfires: for less than $2 an hour, the female inmate firefighters of California work their bodies to the breaking point. | 1.5× | 0 | 855 | 222 | 8 |
| 71 | May 4, '20 | In her essay for the #1619Project, @nhannahjones wrote about how it is black Americans who have been the perfecters of American democracy Read her Pulitzer-winning essay here: | 1.5× | 0 | 719 | 259 | 38 |
| 72 | Sep 28, '16 | The Trials of Marilyn Mosby, by @wilshylton | 1.5× | 0 | 537 | 348 | 0 |
| 73 | Jan 16, '21 | "I don’t Uncle Tom to anybody. I don’t care who it is. When I smile, I smile. I do not grin. There’s a difference, OK? And I would say that to Jesus, do you understand?" An intervi | 1.4× | 0 | 766 | 157 | 71 |
| 74 | Oct 4, '18 | Holy motherforking shirtballs it's @shamblanderson on what makes the @nbcthegoodplace so good. | 1.3× | 0 | 761 | 168 | 19 |
| 75 | Jun 7, '17 | Our cover: Why do America’s black gay and bisexual men have a higher H.I.V. rate than any country in the world? | 1.3× | 0 | 459 | 269 | 1 |
| 76 | Aug 14, '19 | Our #1619project examines the many ways the legacy of slavery continues to shape and define life in the United States. | 1.3× | 0 | 711 | 197 | 18 |
| 77 | Nov 3, '18 | These statistics raise questions about the United States’ counterterrorism strategy, which for nearly two decades has been focused on American and foreign-born jihadists, overshado | 1.3× | 0 | 624 | 245 | 6 |
| 78 | Mar 10, '21 | We interviewed Phoebe Bridgers about her career-defining year, her Grammy nominations and the inspiration she finds in sadness. | 1.2× | 0 | 869 | 74 | 55 |
| 79 | Dec 6, '16 | Here's a sneak peek of the four covers of our Great Performers issue, featuring Denzel Washington, Ruth Negga, Emma Stone and Ashton Sanders | 1.2× | 0 | 554 | 240 | 1 |
| 80 | May 23, '15 | Behold, the pleasures of inexpensive Japanese pens! | 1.2× | 0 | 573 | 265 | 1 |
| 81 | Aug 5, '17 | On Aug. 21, a total solar eclipse will cross the U.S. Prepare yourself with this special section from @nytmag, only in print. | 1.2× | 0 | 520 | 272 | 1 |
| 82 | Sep 16, '16 | What Colin Kaepernick and Leslie Jones reveal about who gets to be called a "patriot" in America, by @Wesley_Morris | 1.2× | 0 | 452 | 274 | 0 |
| 83 | Aug 24, '18 | 20-year-old Naomi Osaka’s rise is accompanied by a curious tension: She is half-Japanese, half-Haitian, representing a country whose obsession with racial purity has shaped her own | 1.2× | 0 | 544 | 229 | 17 |
| 84 | Dec 23, '15 | .@azizansari writes a tribute to his friend Harris Wittels, the comedian's comedian | 1.1× | 0 | 580 | 237 | 0 |
| 85 | Nov 3, '18 | Dan Stout, a police officer in Gainesville, Florida, learned to his horror that Richard Spencer was planning a speech at the University of Florida. Stout had no clue who most of th | 1.1× | 0 | 554 | 197 | 8 |
| 86 | May 6, '20 | This is the two-foot-tall Batman figurine with the head of Mark Twain that lives in Val Kilmer’s office | 1.1× | 0 | 648 | 150 | 13 |
| 87 | Jun 6, '18 | 24 couples, 24 hours, 24 covers. On a single day in May, @NYTmag captured couples kissing in a truck, photographing them as the city rolled by. See all 24 covers here: #NYTLoveCity | 1.1× | 0 | 533 | 199 | 7 |
| 88 | May 21, '20 | We asked writers, artists, photographers to tell us what they learned in quarantine. From learning to play the piano to inventing a new game for their daughters — these are the thi | 1.1× | 0 | 633 | 115 | 44 |
| 89 | Jan 3, '19 | “No one gives you power. You have to take it from them.” Now elected Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, the most powerful Democrat in Washington, is ready for battle: | 1.1× | 0 | 589 | 148 | 7 |
| 90 | Mar 1, '19 | “My Parkinson’s is the same to my children as my being an activist is. It’s who I am.” Michael J. Fox opens up to @david_marchese about acting with Parkinson’s, taking the wrong ro | 1.1× | 0 | 652 | 122 | 13 |
| 91 | Nov 21, '19 | 'Queen & Slim' "is a black movie because it is first and foremost about loving black people, loving us in every way and however we are — when we are angry, when we are frighten | 1.0× | 0 | 585 | 158 | 18 |
| 92 | Nov 3, '18 | These statistics belie the strident rhetoric around “foreign-born” terrorists that the Trump administration has used to drive its anti-immigration agenda. | 1.0× | 0 | 564 | 187 | 3 |
| 93 | Apr 11, '22 | “This was Trump pulling a Putin.” @DraperRobert talked to Fiona Hill, John Bolton and other former Trump advisers about the ex-president's pressure campaign on Ukraine, the Russian | 1.0× | 0 | 502 | 182 | 21 |
| 94 | Jun 18, '18 | How ‘Desus & Mero’ Conquered Late Night: The comedic duo has made it big by offering what few other shows can: a decidedly black perspective. By @jazzedloon | 1.0× | 0 | 491 | 187 | 14 |
| 95 | Sep 6, '15 | If The Rock can pull off a fanny pack, you probably can too. | 1.0× | 0 | 477 | 226 | 0 |
| 96 | Jan 15, '21 | "America will not survive the big lie just because a liar is separated from power." The historian @TimothyDSnyder writes on Trump, the mob and what comes next. | 0.9× | 0 | 405 | 176 | 28 |
| 97 | Nov 3, '18 | There were no current intelligence reports he could find on the alt-right. The state police couldn’t offer much insight. Whatever the F.B.I. knew (which wasn’t a lot), they weren’t | 0.9× | 0 | 483 | 155 | 2 |
| 98 | Apr 29, '19 | “I am driven by a desire to see poverty end and economic security be a guaranteed capacity for every person.” — @staceyabrams | 0.9× | 0 | 486 | 114 | 10 |
| 99 | Oct 14, '20 | “On Black men, a mustache told a different story. It was fashionable, but it was more than that. On a Black man, it signified values: perseverance, seriousness, rigor. ” Wesley Mor | 0.9× | 0 | 451 | 76 | 38 |
| 100 | Apr 29, '19 | “Poverty and inequality and inequity in our country are harming our future. And we need a leader who is willing to lay out thoughtful progressive policies that will lift up the ent | 0.8× | 0 | 426 | 104 | 9 |