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New York Times (May 2019)

  1. Tornado Warning and Storms Jolt New York Region

    1652 points • may 29, 2019

  2. Trump’s Financial Secrets Move Closer to Disclosure

    1650 points • may 23, 2019

  3. The Difference Between Happiness and Joy

    1638 points • may 07, 2019

  4. Brisket for Beginners

    1624 points • may 24, 2019

  5. Trump Lifts Metal Tariffs and Delays Auto Levies, Limiting Global Trade Fight

    1616 points • may 17, 2019

  6. Quiz: How Does Your Diet Contribute to Climate Change?

    1616 points • may 01, 2019

  7. ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 8 Finale Recap: All Hail Who?

    1592 points • may 20, 2019

  8. Six of I.M. Pei’s Most Important Buildings

    1588 points • may 17, 2019

  9. Fair Play Is No Match for Foul

    1582 points • may 05, 2019

  10. In China, Some Fear the End of ‘Chimerica’

    1580 points • may 14, 2019

  11. She Was Left in a Bag as a Newborn. DNA Testing Helped Her Understand Why.

    1568 points • may 22, 2019

  12. She May Have Saved a Life. Then She Was Arrested.

    1564 points • may 16, 2019

  13. Measles Cases Surpass 700 as Outbreak Continues Unabated

    1556 points • may 01, 2019

  14. Over 60: Why Own When You Can Rent?

    1550 points • may 03, 2019

  15. Math Teachers Should Be More Like Football Coaches

    1540 points • may 12, 2019

  16. China, Defiant but Careful, Promises Aggressive Response to Tariffs

    1540 points • may 10, 2019

  17. Why You Should Try to Be a Little More Scarce

    1538 points • may 21, 2019

  18. Why It’s So Hard to Learn French in Middle Age

    1538 points • may 01, 2019

  19. Trump Jumps Into Impeachment Fray With Both Feet

    1520 points • may 24, 2019

  20. Why Are Milkshakes Being Thrown at Right-Wing Politicians Like Nigel Farage?

    1512 points • may 22, 2019

  21. Trump Says Kentucky Derby Ruling Was ‘Not a Good One’

    1508 points • may 05, 2019

  22. Uber’s Stock Disappoints, Capping a Rocky Path to Its I.P.O.

    1496 points • may 10, 2019

  23. Stacey Abrams: We Cannot Resign Ourselves to Dismay and Disenfranchisement

    1496 points • may 16, 2019

  24. Elena Ferrante: A Power of Our Own

    1478 points • may 18, 2019

  25. Howard Stern Says He’s Changed. How Much?

    1476 points • may 09, 2019

  26. I Finally Made it to ‘Jeopardy!’ and Was Beating James Holzhauer. Then He Got Rolling.

    1468 points • may 05, 2019

  27. Three Ways to Fold a T-Shirt

    1464 points • may 20, 2019

  28. Trump’s Formidable 2020 Tailwind

    1454 points • may 27, 2019

  29. HBO Erases the ‘Game of Thrones’ Coffee Cup

    1444 points • may 08, 2019

  30. As Everest Melts, Bodies Are Emerging From the Ice

    1440 points • may 31, 2019

  31. The Welfare State Is Broken. Here’s How to Fix It.

    1430 points • may 28, 2019

  32. Romania’s Most Powerful Man Is Sent to Prison for Corruption

    1430 points • may 28, 2019

  33. ‘I Did My Best to Stop American Foreign Policy’: Bernie Sanders on the 1980s

    1428 points • may 19, 2019

  34. James Holzhauer Was Told to Smile to Get on ‘Jeopardy!’ He’s Smiling Now

    1428 points • may 08, 2019

  35. The Surprising Benefits of Relentlessly Auditing Your Life

    1416 points • may 26, 2019

  36. Is There a Connection Between Undocumented Immigrants and Crime?

    1414 points • may 13, 2019

  37. Felicity Huffman’s Guilty Plea Could Bring 4 Months in Jail

    1404 points • may 13, 2019

  38. Utah Man Dies on Everest Just After Climbing the Highest Peak on Each Continent

    1400 points • may 25, 2019

  39. How ‘Game of Thrones’ Failed Fantasy

    1396 points • may 22, 2019

  40. Why Barr Can’t Whitewash the Mueller Report

    1390 points • may 02, 2019

  41. The Trouble With Joe and Bernie

    1386 points • may 03, 2019

  42. Trump’s Trade War Escalation Will Exact Economic Pain, Adviser Says

    1384 points • may 13, 2019

  43. At the N.R.A., a Cash Machine Sputtering

    1380 points • may 15, 2019

  44. The Day Christian Fundamentalism Was Born

    1376 points • may 26, 2019

  45. Kansas City-Area Tornadoes Add to 12 Straight Days of Destruction

    1366 points • may 29, 2019

  46. Tuition or Dinner? Nearly Half of College Students Surveyed in a New Report Are Going Hungry

    1366 points • may 02, 2019

  47. Harvard Drops Harvey Weinstein Lawyer as a Faculty Dean

    1354 points • may 12, 2019

  48. As Mainstays Depart, Charleston Asks Where Its Restaurant Scene Is Headed

    1342 points • may 08, 2019

  49. Banker Accused of Arranging $16 Million in Loans to Manafort to Gain High-Level Trump Post

    1338 points • may 23, 2019

  50. We Have 2 Dead Young Heroes. It’s Time to Stand Up to Guns.

    1330 points • may 09, 2019

  51. How to Help Protect Abortion Rights in Alabama and Georgia

    1330 points • may 16, 2019

  52. Surviving Despair in the Great Extinction

    1318 points • may 13, 2019

  53. ‘The Time Is Now’: States Are Rushing to Restrict Abortion, or to Protect It

    1316 points • may 16, 2019

  54. For a Split Second, a (Simulated) Particle Went Backward in Time

    1312 points • may 09, 2019

  55. Hikers Take to the Appalachian Trail to Escape the Real World. This Time, They Couldn’t.

    1308 points • may 15, 2019

  56. SAT’s New ‘Adversity Score’ Will Take Students’ Hardships Into Account

    1274 points • may 17, 2019

  57. The Big Story You Don’t Read About

    1274 points • may 17, 2019

  58. Chronicles of the Rings: What Trees Tell Us

    1262 points • may 01, 2019

  59. Allyson Felix: My Own Nike Pregnancy Story

    1246 points • may 23, 2019

  60. How Did James Holzhauer Turn ‘Jeopardy!’ Into His Own A.T.M.? We Asked Him

    1244 points • may 01, 2019

  61. There’s No Boom in Youngstown, but Blue-Collar Workers Are Sticking With Trump

    1242 points • may 20, 2019

  62. Arya’s Dagger Has a Complex History in ‘Game of Thrones.’ Here’s a Look Back.

    1240 points • may 01, 2019

  63. Citrus Farmers Facing Deadly Bacteria Turn to Antibiotics, Alarming Health Officials

    1240 points • may 18, 2019

  64. Why You Need a Network of Low-Stakes, Casual Friendships

    1238 points • may 08, 2019

  65. Has Our Luck Run Out?

    1234 points • may 01, 2019

  66. Let’s Not Forget the Establishment Clause

    1232 points • may 23, 2019

  67. She Had Stage 4 Lung Cancer, and a Mountain to Climb

    1224 points • may 22, 2019

  68. Colombia’s Peace Is Too Precious to Abandon

    1222 points • may 24, 2019

  69. Chicago Finds a Way to Improve Public Housing: Libraries

    1222 points • may 16, 2019

  70. Medieval Scholars Joust With White Nationalists. And One Another.

    1220 points • may 05, 2019

  71. Doris Day, Movie Star Who Charmed America, Dies at 97

    1210 points • may 13, 2019

  72. Abortion Bans: How State Laws Have Limited the Procedure This Year

    1196 points • may 16, 2019

  73. Citing Iranian Threat, U.S. Sends Carrier Group and Bombers to Persian Gulf

    1196 points • may 06, 2019

  74. U.S. Issues New Sanctions as Iran Warns It Will Step Back From Nuclear Deal

    1196 points • may 09, 2019

  75. For a Split Second, a Quantum Computer Made History Go Backward

    1196 points • may 10, 2019

  76. A Terrorist Tried to Kill Me Because I Am a Jew. I Will Never Back Down.

    1180 points • may 01, 2019

  77. Medical School Doesn’t Teach the ‘Woman’s Life Is in Danger’ Curriculum

    1180 points • may 21, 2019

  78. Years Ago, My Sister Vanished. I See Her Whenever I Want.

    1180 points • may 04, 2019

  79. Dog Owners Get More Exercise

    1178 points • may 29, 2019

  80. Fox News Welcomes Pete Buttigieg. Trump and ‘Fox & Friends’ Aren’t Pleased.

    1162 points • may 21, 2019

  81. In Southeastern Sicily, Old World Architecture Meets Stunning Beaches

    1148 points • may 06, 2019

  82. A Chain of Species Destruction at Yellowstone

    1134 points • may 14, 2019

  83. News Quiz: Test Your Knowledge of the Week’s Headlines

    1132 points • may 25, 2019

  84. A Rising Tide of Anti-Semitism

    1128 points • may 01, 2019

  85. How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk

    1128 points • may 20, 2019

  86. Xi Jinping Wanted Global Dominance. He Overshot.

    1126 points • may 07, 2019

  87. Wife of Slain Wall Street Banker: My Son Did It, but He ‘Is Nuts’

    1124 points • may 29, 2019

  88. Black Women in Chicago, Getting Things Done

    1120 points • may 19, 2019

  89. How Trump Wins Next Year

    1112 points • may 25, 2019

  90. Secret Venezuela Files Warn About Maduro Confidant

    1110 points • may 02, 2019

  91. For Mother’s Day, Save Women’s Lives

    1110 points • may 12, 2019

  92. Steven Mnuchin Refuses to Release Trump’s Tax Returns to Congress

    1106 points • may 07, 2019

  93. Democrats, Do Your Damned Duty!

    1088 points • may 30, 2019

  94. Trump’s Secrecy Fight Escalates as Judge Rules for Congress in Early Test

    1086 points • may 21, 2019

  95. 4 Women With Lives Scarred by Genital Cutting: Could a Surgeon Heal Them?

    1080 points • may 25, 2019

  96. McConnell Says Republicans Would Fill a Supreme Court Vacancy in 2020, Drawing Claims of Hypocrisy

    1078 points • may 30, 2019

  97. An Ode to ‘Desperate Don’

    1074 points • may 20, 2019

  98. How Much Alcohol Can You Drink Safely?

    1054 points • may 17, 2019

  99. Trump Says U.S. Will Hit Mexico With 5% Tariffs on All Goods

    1054 points • may 31, 2019

  100. ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 8, Episode 3 Recap: An Epic Battle Presented at a Human Scale

    1048 points • may 01, 2019