“Hillary Clinton is our next president. How do you think the founding mothers would feel if they heard the news?” So began an essay by Gail Collins for a special section of The New York Times that was to have been published Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016, two days after the …
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Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. A presidential campaign. A hurricane. A cult-favorite cabbage slaw. For Emily Cochrane, a reporter who covers the American South for The New York Times, no day is ever the same. …
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Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. While on assignment this year in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador for The New York Times, my attention turned to big game — moose, that is. In 1904, …
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Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. There’s a romanticized idea in movies that travel editors only luxuriate in fancy resorts in faraway archipelagos. But I prefer exploring salt marshes. Since I was a child, my favorite …
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