The Most-Read New York Times Stories of 2018 (Published 2018) (2024)

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By MAGGIE ADAMS, ARI ISAACMAN BEVACQUA and ANNA DUBENKO DEC. 19, 2018

Here are the top 100 stories our subscribers read in 2018. Want a break from politics? Click “no politics.” Want to settle in for some deeply reported stories? Click “long reads.” Or explore them all.

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1 U.S. House Election Results 2 U.S. Senate Election Results 3 I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration 4 Live Forecast: Who Will Win the House? 5 Results: Conor Lamb Wins Pennsylvania Special Election 6 Governor Election Results 7 Polling the 2018 Midterm Elections in Real Time 8 Results: Troy Balderson Wins Ohio Special Election 9 Midterm Election Results Dashboard 10 Kavanaugh’s Yearbook Page Is ‘Horrible, Hurtful’ to a Woman It Named 11 Trump Agrees to Open ‘Limited’ F.B.I. Investigation Into Accusations Against Kavanaugh 12 Updates From the Riveting Testimonies of Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh 13 Michael Cohen Says He Arranged Payments to Women at Trump’s Direction 14 Anthony Bourdain, Renegade Chef Who Reported From the World’s Tables, Is Dead at 61 15 11 Killed in Synagogue Massacre; Suspect Charged With 29 Counts 16 This Is Why Uma Thurman Is Angry 17 Trump Engaged in Suspect Tax Schemes as He Reaped Riches From His Father 18 Before Kavanaugh Hearing, New Accusations and Doubts Emerge 19 Michael Cohen Secretly Taped Trump Discussing Payment to Playboy Model 20 Trump Lashes Out After Reports of ‘Quiet Resistance’ by Staff 21 Trump Alarms Lawmakers With Disparaging Words for Haiti and Africa 22 White House Counsel, Don McGahn, Has Cooperated Extensively in Mueller Inquiry 23 Rod Rosenstein Suggested Secretly Recording Trump and Discussed 25th Amendment 24 Outspoken Trump Supporter in Florida Charged in Attempted Bombing Spree 25 Live Forecast: Who Will Win the Senate? 26 F.B.I. Raids Office of Trump’s Longtime Lawyer Michael Cohen; Trump Calls It ‘Disgraceful’ 27 Trump, Defending His Mental Fitness, Says He’s a ‘Very Stable Genius’ 28 Trump Ordered Mueller Fired, but Backed Off When White House Counsel Threatened to Quit 29 Among the Ruins of Mexico Beach Stands One House, Built ‘for the Big One’ 30 Death Toll Is at 17 and Could Rise in Florida School Shooting 31 Trump Sees Inquiry Into Cohen as Greater Threat Than Mueller 32 Audio Offers Gruesome Details of Jamal Khashoggi Killing, Turkish Official Says 33 California Shooting Kills 12 at Country Music Bar, a Year After Las Vegas 34 After Racist Tweet, Roseanne Barr’s Show Is Canceled by ABC 35 Why Brett Kavanaugh Wasn’t Believable 36 Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and CNN Offices Are Sent Pipe Bombs 37 In Texas School Shooting, 10 Dead, 10 Hurt and Many Unsurprised 38 What Teenagers Are Learning From Online Porn 39 Kate Spade, Whose Handbags Carried Women Into Adulthood, Is Dead at 55 40 Lucky Breaks, Video and Pink Gloves Led to Austin Bombing Suspect 41 Kavanaugh’s Nomination in Turmoil as Accuser Says He Assaulted Her Decades Ago 42 Michael Cohen Has Said He Would Take a Bullet for Trump. Maybe Not Anymore. 43 Whatever Trump Is Hiding Is Hurting All of Us Now 44 Rod Rosenstein’s Job Is Safe, for Now: Inside His Dramatic Day 45 Opposition to Breast-Feeding Resolution by U.S. Stuns World Health Officials 46 An Extremely Detailed Map of the 2016 Presidential Election 47 Trump Refuses to Sign G-7 Statement and Calls Trudeau ‘Weak’ 48 Obstruction Inquiry Shows Trump’s Struggle to Keep Grip on Russia Investigation 49 How Goop’s Haters Made Gwyneth Paltrow’s Company Worth $250 Million 50 Porn Star Was Reportedly Paid to Stay Quiet About Trump 51 Tonya Harding Would Like Her Apology Now 52 How Trump Consultants Exploited the Facebook Data of Millions 53 Midterm Election Results Leave a Divided Congress 54 Comey, in Interview, Calls Trump ‘Morally Unfit’ and ‘Stain’ on All Around Him 55 I Downloaded the Information That Facebook Has on Me. Yikes. 56 52 Places to Go in 2018 57 Trump’s Evolution From Relief to Fury Over the Russia Indictment 58 When We Eat, or Don’t Eat, May Be Critical for Health 59 In ‘Small Fry,’ Steve Jobs Comes Across as a Jerk. His Daughter Forgives Him. Should We? 60 Aziz Ansari Is Guilty. Of Not Being a Mind Reader. 61 The Key to Weight Loss Is Diet Quality, Not Quantity, a New Study Finds 62 A New Wife, a Secret Past and a Trail of Loss and Blood 63 Everyone in Trumpworld Knows He’s an Idiot 64 Mueller Has Dozens of Inquiries for Trump in Broad Quest on Russia Ties and Obstruction 65 Melania Trump, Agent of Coat Chaos 66 11 Takeaways From The Times’s Investigation Into Trump’s Wealth 67 20 Killed in Limo Crash in New York; Deadliest U.S. Accident in 9 Years 68 Trump Breaks With Bannon, Saying He Has ‘Lost His Mind’ 69 Elon Musk Details ‘Excruciating’ Personal Toll of Tesla Turmoil 70 James Comey Has a Story to Tell. It’s Very Persuasive. 71 Stormy Daniels, Porn Star Suing Trump, Is Known for Her Ambition: ‘She’s the Boss’ 72 Trump Says He Laid Down the Law in His Latest Account of His Meeting With Putin 73 How to Retire in Your 30s With $1 Million in the Bank 74 Melania Trump Could Be Our Greatest First Lady 75 Will We Stop Trump Before It’s Too Late? 76 John McCain, War Hero, Senator, Presidential Contender, Dies at 81 77 13 Russians Indicted as Mueller Reveals Effort to Aid Trump Campaign 78 Trump Unleashes on Kavanaugh Accuser as Key Republican Wavers 79 The Kushners Saw Redemption in the White House. It Was a Mirage. 80 Michelle Wolf Sets Off a Furor at White House Correspondents’ Dinner 81 Obama Portraits Blend Paint and Politics, and Fact and Fiction 82 G.O.P. Squirms as Trump Veers Off Script With Abuse Remarks 83 How Michael Cohen, Trump’s Fixer, Built a Shadowy Business Empire 84 A Senior Republican Senator Admonishes Trump: ‘America Is an Idea, Not a Race’ 85 Manafort Breached Plea Deal by Repeatedly Lying, Mueller Says 86 Living in a Van Plastered With Hate, Bombing Suspect Was Filled With Right-Wing Rage 87 At His Ranch, John McCain Shares Memories and Regrets With Friends 88 The Law Is Coming, Mr. Trump 89 Amazon Chooses 20 Finalists for Second Headquarters 90 Melania Knew 91 Florida Election Results 92 The 10 Best Books of 2018 93 Hawaii Panics After Alert About Incoming Missile Is Sent in Error 94 Asia Argento, a #MeToo Leader, Made a Deal With Her Own Accuser 95 Larry David: The Most Important Meal of the Day 96 At Times, Kavanaugh’s Defense Misleads or Veers Off Point 97 A Besieged Trump Says He Misspoke on Russian Election Meddling 98 Chief Justice Defends Judicial Independence After Trump Attacks ‘Obama Judge’ 99 Paul Manafort Agrees to Cooperate With Special Counsel; Pleads Guilty to Reduced Charges 100 Trump Hits Alps, but Melania Is Frosty in Florida

Last updated Dec. 17, 2018.