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The 2.24.19 Issue

Highlights

  4. The Rise of the WeWorking Class

    The co-working giant’s real product isn’t office space — it’s a new kind of “corporate culture.“

     By Gideon Lewis-Kraus

    A WeWork in Paris.
    CreditMatthew Pillsbury for The New York Times

  1. An Office Designed for Workers With Autism

    What happens when people who have trouble fitting into a traditional workplace get one designed just for them?

     By Susan Dominus

    Ben Hirasuna at Auticon’s office in Santa Monica.
    CreditRyan Pfluger for The New York Times

  2. The $15 Minimum Wage Doesn’t Just Improve Lives. It Saves Them.

    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 children from neglect.

     By Matthew Desmond

    Julio Payes works full-time as a room attendant at a hotel and part-time as a cashier at Burger King.
    CreditCeleste Sloman for The New York Times

  3. Decades on the Job, and Counting

    These New Yorkers have been doing the same thing for 50, 60, 70 years — and love it too much to stop.

     Photographs by Christopher Payne

    <strong>Leon Kalajian, 82 (above)<br /></strong><em>Founder, Tom’s Sons </em><em>International Pleating<br /></em><em>Garment district, Manhattan<br /></em><em>Years in the job: 76<br /><br /></em><em>“My mother was doing pleating when I was very, very young. Every chance I get, I am in the factory — I was 6 years old. I have to work. I cannot stay at home. I have to do something. I have to be around people. Someday they ask you: ‘When the pleating is not in fashion, what will you do?’ I do pleating! For me it never goes out, the pleating. Every day I can create a new style.”</em>
    CreditChristopher Payne for The New York Times

  4. The Meaning of the Scene: When Pelosi Clapped at Trump

    The internet is great at rooting out and freeze-framing interpersonal drama. It has become downright masterful during the Trump era, our critic writes.

     By Wesley Morris

    CreditChip Sommodevilla/Getty Images
    Screenland

  5. John Legend on Kanye West, Making Political Music and Morality in Art

    ‘‘Within the last 18 months, someone said R. Kelly had a good song for me. I said no.’’

     Interview by David Marchese

    CreditMamadi Doumbouya for The New York Times
    Talk

  1. Why John Legend Said No to a Song From R. Kelly

    ‘At some point, you’ve got to draw a line.’

     By The New York Times Magazine

    Legend performing in front of a migrant detention center in Arizona in 2016.
    CreditRicardo Arduengo/Associated Press

  2. Letter of Recommendation: Dollhouses

    A dollhouse is the one domestic space both completely under — and reasonably within — your control.

     By Emily Landau

    CreditPhoto illustration by Weronika Gesicka. Source photographs: Alamy.
    Letter of Recommendation

  3. My French Grandmother’s Shortbread Makes for Shamefully Addictive Cheese Crackers

    Cheddar-sesame-cayenne coins that recall the American South — with a little European flair.

     By Gabrielle Hamilton

    Cheese crackers.
    CreditPaola & Murray for The New York Times. Food stylist: Maggie Ruggiero. Prop stylist: Angharad Bailey.
    Eat

  4. Loneliness Is Bad for Your Health. An App May Help.

    A specific approach to mindfulness may increase sociability.

     By Gretchen Reynolds

    CreditIllustration by Celia Jacobs
    Well

  5. Can I Turn Down Family Requests for Money?

    The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on managing the monetary demands of impecunious relatives, a tax-dodging boss and more.

     By Kwame Anthony Appiah

    CreditIllustration by Tomi Um
    The Ethicist

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