Elizabeth Weil

3 weeks ago | thecut.com | Elizabeth Weil

Episode 3 of The Telepathy Tapes: Katie Asher and her 28-year-old son, Houston. Photo: Marco Giannavola Katie Asher, buzzing with exhaustion, collapsed on her couch. She was 40, smart, a bootstrapper with a southern drawl and long auburn curls. She also had an abusive ex-husband, three jobs, and five children, including a then-17-year-old named Houston, who had autism and couldn’t speak. -Caring for Houston was torture. He smeared feces.

2 months ago | thecut.com | Elizabeth Weil

Photo-Illustration: Joe Darrow; Drawing: Portrait Essentials/Alamy Stock Photo In the middle of my life, I ran into my sister. We hadn’t talked in two years. I’d like to report that we got into a huge fight. Or that we hugged and cried. Or that we picked up our conversation where we’d left it off and our story lines converged. But none of that happened.

Nov 3, 2024 | nymag.com | Elizabeth Weil

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York's reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. The National Archives Museum in Washington, D.C., is secured by 40-foot bronze doors, each of which weighs 6.5 tons. On Valentine's Day 2024, around 1 p.m., Donald Zepeda walked the mile there from his Airbnb to throw paint powder on the Constitution of the United States. He was 35. The parts per million of carbon in the atmosphere was 422.99.

Jun 29, 2024 | sacbee.com | Elizabeth Weil |Jill Lieber Steeg

With the 2024 Summer Olympic Games on the horizon, we’re all prepared to be blown away by the grit, talent and determination of the world’s greatest athletes. These incredible people have put in countless hours of work perfecting their crafts, and along the way they’ve seen incredible things and learned some life lessons that are applicable to all of us. And many of them have shared their memories in Olympic memoirs.

May 19, 2024 | nymag.com | Elizabeth Weil

Illustration: Ryan Melgar On May 30, 2024, it was announced that Miriam Adelson would revive her Preserve America super PAC, intending to channel more than $100 million to the Trump reelection efforts. This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly.