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Points, picas, and other typographical terms
People who work for newspapers often have to be familiar with a different measurement system than inches and feet. You need to know, for example, that the size of the type is measured in “points.” Ordinary body type might be something like 10 “points,” with headlines starting around 12 “points.” In this measurement, 72 points...
The 1619 Project and the stories we tell about slavery
Last night, at the event space of The New York Times building, a collection of Black journalists, poets, and museum curators announced their intention to tell the truth about slavery. Announcing the debut of The 1619 Project, a special issue of the Times magazine published with additional material in the newspaper, Nikole Hannah-Jones, a staff...
Why it’s wrong to blame mass killings on mental illness
Donald Trump has tried to lay the blame for America’s mass shooting epidemic on history’s most convenient scapegoat: mental illness. Or, as he has taken to calling people with psychiatric disease, “mentally ill monsters.” (He’s also referred to “nut jobs,” “lunatics,” and “wackos.”) Trump, reading to Americans from a teleprompter, declared that “mental illness and...
Stalking wildfires to capture the horrible beauty of climate change
At around 3am on November 9, 2018, photographer Stuart Palley stood on the sidewalk of a residential street in Thousand Oaks, California. A wildfire known as the Hill Fire was burning down from the foothills, driven by Santa Ana winds and fueled by unseasonably hot and dry conditions. Palley had been on the scene for...
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I wrote a story that became a legend. Then I discovered it wasn’t true.
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