Annals of Law
When Foster Parents Don’t Want to Give Back the Baby
by Eli Hager
In many states, adoption lawyers are pushing a new legal strategy that forces biological parents to compete for custody of their children.
The Next Targets for the Group That Overturned Roe
by David D. Kirkpatrick
Alliance Defending Freedom has won fifteen Supreme Court cases. Now it wants religious exemptions to anti-discrimination laws—and is going after trans rights.
The Villa Where a Doctor Experimented on Children
by Margaret Talbot
As a girl in Austria, Evy Mages was confined to a mysterious institution in Innsbruck. Decades later, she learned why.
The Bench
In Georgia Judge, Has Trump Finally Met His Audience-Thrilling Match?
by Charles Bethea
Scott McAfee, the cello-playing, What-A-Man-pageant-winning judge presiding over the only televised Trump trial, wants to avoid becoming “the next Judge Ito.”
How Elon Musk Went from Superhero to Supervillain
by Jill Lepore
Walter Isaacson’s new biography depicts a man who wields more power than almost any other person on the planet but seems estranged from humanity itself.
Dept. of Public Health
The Lies in Your Grocery Store
by Sarah Larson
Most people accept the gimmicks of food labelling. One lawyer can’t stomach them.
In the Water
Tits Out Under the Verrazzano
by Daniel Shailer
Leslie Hamilton, an accountant, battled sea lice and rusting garbage barges as she became the first person on record to swim a lap around Staten Island since 1979.
What Happens to All the Stuff We Return?
by David Owen
Online merchants changed the way we shop—and made “reverse logistics” into a booming new industry.
Letter from Iran
The Protests Inside Iran’s Girls’ Schools
by Azadeh Moaveni
From the start, women were at the center of the demonstrations that swept Iran last year. Schoolgirls emerged as an unexpected source of defiant energy.
