Lee Harvey Oswald Was My Friend
By PAUL GREGORY
Fifty years after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, an academic looks back at the summer that might have changed Oswald’s life.
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Mike Rice, the former head basketball coach at Rutgers University, coaching at a training camp at Albright College in Pennsylvania in August.
The Coach Who Exploded
By JONATHAN MAHLER
Since Mike Rice’s promising career was derailed by the highlight reel from hell, there’s nothing he won’t do to prove he can get his competitive fire under control.
It’s the Economy
Outsource Your Way to Success
By CATHERINE RAMPELL
Want to get ahead in life? Pay others to do the boring stuff.
Talk
‘In the Old Days, You’d Smell the Milk’
Interview by HOPE REEVES
The former Trader Joe’s executive Doug Rauch on why food past its expiration date isn’t so bad.
Solve the popular variety puzzles from the Sunday magazine at our newly relaunched hub for New York Times crosswords.
Look
The Art of Hanging Around
Photographs by JAN STALLER
A photographic diary of a luxury condominium building’s creation.
Drink
The Great Old-Fashioned Debate
By ROSIE SCHAAP
Streamlined or with fruit? It has been more than a century, and people still can’t decide.
The Ethicist
Is It Wrong to Steer Business Away From a Philanderer?
By CHUCK KLOSTERMAN
The Seventh Commandment’s role in retail.
Riff
‘Speculation Is the New Spoiler’
By TAFFY BRODESSER-AKNER
For TV watchers, talking about what might happen can feel as perilous as talking about what did happen.
Innovation
Who Made That College Application?
By JESSICA GROSS
From an eight-page form and a photograph to the Common App.
Reply All
From The Archive
Let’s Start Paying College Athletes
Joe Nocera’s article proposing a compensation system for college athletes.
Editors' Picks
All Is Fair in Love and Twitter
By NICK BILTON
The sweet, innocent ideas and ruthless power plays that created Twitter.
Could New York City Subways Survive Another Hurricane?
By ROBERT SULLIVAN
It helps that the transit workers have been at it so long — and have access to a lot of plywood.
How Laura Poitras Helped Snowden Spill His Secrets
By PETER MAASS
It all started with her own fight against surveillance.
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The Posh London Homes That Posh Londoners Covet
By SARAH LYALL
Wishing a friend’s house or apartment was yours isn’t only an American trait. A chain of envy from across the pond.
Look
Who’s Winning the Architecture Arms Race?
Hint: It’s the place spending an estimated $6 billion a year on it.
