THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE- SEPT. 20, 2026

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THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE: The 9.20.26 Issue features David Wallace-Wells on our age of perpetual climate disaster; Eve Fairbanks on a superintendent who rebuilt his devestated schools; Mark Chiusano on the New York City subway system and flooding; and more.

In an Age of Perpetual Climate Disaster, Rebuilding Is the Wrong Goal

But every crisis is an opportunity.

Congress May Be Broken Beyond Repair. Lawmakers Told Us How It Happened.

Members from both parties say the legislative branch has descended into a state of dysfunction in the Trump era. By Robert Draper

He Rebuilt His City’s Devastated Schools. Then Came the Backlash.

A former superintendent in Joplin, Mo., is trying to apply what he learned to other shattered districts — and reckoning with the toll of the disaster on his own life. By Eve Fairbanks

After 21 Years of Calling the Mets, Howie Rose Somehow Still Believes in Miracles

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