People tethered to one particular other person, whether they want to be or not. Co-produced.

A series of phone calls to a man in Gaza named Yousef Hammash, between early December and now. He talks about what he and his family are experiencing, sometimes as they are experiencing it. Contributed fact-checking, research and editing.

People waking up to the fact that the world has suddenly changed. Contributed fact-checking, research and editing.

Donald Trump has talked about taking retribution on his enemies since the early days of his 2024 presidential campaign. His supporters say that Biden is the one who weaponized the Justice Department. We try to understand what his retribution might look like by speaking with people who have the most to lose in a second Trump administration: people who believe Trump will be coming for them.

The things we break and the ones we can't fix. Contributed fact-checking, research and editing.

What it means to have words—and to lose them. Contributed fact-checking, research and editing.

People taking it upon themselves to solve the tiny, overlooked crimes of the world.. Contributed fact-checking, research and editing.

How they organize the chaos of the world, for good and for bad. Contributed fact-checking, research and editing.

An investigation of when and why people ask loaded questions that are a proxy for something else.

A landlord filed 54 Housing Court cases last week demanding months and even years of unpaid rent. Tenants say the city Department of Social Services didn’t come through on its share of the bill. Read more.

Upstate schools are closing and volunteer fire departments are struggling with recruitment. Some locals blame a surge of city residents who bought second homes during the pandemic.

Record-breaking heat waves across the U.S. forced small businesses to close early in July, according to a report released on Tuesday, and reduced paid working hours for employees as dangerous temperatures reshape consumer behavior.

Maribel Soto and many other residents of the Jacob Riis Houses were not shocked when the New York City Housing Authority announced that arsenic had been detected in their drinking water. The Lower East Side tenants have been buying bottled water for years because they are afraid of what comes out of their taps.

Opponents — and even some of their endorsed candidates — say one well-organized group of parents is turning Community Education Councils into forums for right-wing animosity over issues like critical race theory and the treatment of LGBTQ+ youth.

As the rest of the country celebrates a strong jobs recovery, the Black unemployment rate remains sky-high.

Weakening loan growth for U.S. banks and what top lending officers across the industry have to say about the credit outlook will color the debate U.S. Federal Reserve officials are having over where they push policy from here.

Two of the most high profile strikes across the country are coming to a close this month as both auto workers and actors reaching tentative deals with their respective employers. But for janitors, repair people, and porters across New York City’s non-residential buildings, negotiations over a new contract have only just begun.

Universal 3-K and pre-K was the crowning achievement of former Mayor Bill de Blasio and became a model for cities across the country. But the New York State Comptroller’s Office projects a $376 million shortfall in 3-K funding by 2026 as one-time federal funding expires.

Packed tightly into the crowd that gathers at the starting line, it isn’t immediately obvious that a handful of the wetsuit-clad athletes are tethered together at the waist by a rubber rope. These are Achilles athletes and their able-bodied guides – reporter Safiyah Riddle spoke with Francesco Magisano ahead of his race on Sunday.

Chinese protesters in New York call for an end to China’s zero-COVID lockdowns and fear retaliation from the Chinese government even from thousands of miles away.

The Black jobless rate of 12.2% is nine times the white unemployment level, a far wider gap than elsewhere in the U.S.

Diminishing inflation pushed consumer sentiment to the highest in nearly two years. The strength of recent data has made the prospect of a "soft-landing" - where inflation falls and a recession is avoided - more realistic.

U.S. small businesses are paying the most for loans in 16 years as borrowing costs have skyrocketed under the Federal Reserve's aggressive interest rate hikes, but new data shows they have yet to face a widely predicted credit crunch.Description goes here

The U.S. Black unemployment rate hit a 10-month high in June, driven in large part by Black workers leaving the labor market, a development some economists worry may be a "canary in the coal mine" that may mean a recession is approaching.

They have not had a pay raise in four years, in spite of recent inflation and economic downturn.