Lawrence Wright

Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The story of a powerful spiritual alliance. Lawrence Wright reports.

Lawrence Wright on the mistakes and the struggles behind America’s COVID-19 tragedy.

With right-wing zealots taking over the legislature even as the state’s demographics shift leftward, Texas has become the nation’s bellwether.

Lawrence Wright reports on the attempt to rescue five hostages in Syria: Kayla Mueller, Steven Sotloff, Peter Kassig, James Foley, and Theo Padnos.

An Al Qaeda mastermind questions terrorism.

For the new theorists of jihad, Al Qaeda is just the beginning.

Did the C.I.A. stop an F.B.I. detective from preventing 9/11?

How an Egyptian doctor became a master of terror.

Lawrence Wright on the future of the Mormon Church.

John O’Neill was an F.B.I. agent with an obsession: the growing threat of Al Qaeda.

The psychologist Kay Jackson worked with many incarcerated sex offenders. Fearing one patient’s impending homecoming, she agonized over whether to warn the police.

Lawrence Wright on new revelations about identical twins and human development.

Comment about a debate over whether sex criminals should be permitted to undergo castration. The argument began in 1992, when Steve Allen Butler, a …

A REPORTER AT LARGE about the three surviving sons of Rev. Jim Jones, who committed suicide along with 900-odd of his followers in Guyana. The entire …

Part II of Lawrence Wright’s 1993 report on how the case of Paul Ingram, who was charged with raping his daughters, became the focus of a raging debate over satanic-ritual abuse, sex-crimes investigation, and criminal accusations made on the basis of “recovered” memory.

Lawrence Wright’s 1993 report on how charges of sexual and satanic-ritual abuse in Olympia, Washington, escalated into a landmark case in the national obsession with cults and “recovered” memory.