Margaret Talbot

As a girl in Austria, Evy Mages was confined to a mysterious institution in Innsbruck. Decades later, she learned why. Margaret Talbot reports.

Margaret Talbot on Joshua Prager’s “The Family Roe” and the all-too-human plaintiff of Roe v. Wade, who captured the messy contradictions hidden by a polarizing debate.

Margaret Talbot writes about women who feel drawn by God to the calling—and won’t let the Vatican stop them.

She’s not a liberal icon like Ruth Bader Ginsburg, but, through her powers of persuasion, she’s the key Justice holding back the Court’s rightward shift, Margaret Talbot writes.

West Virginia has the highest overdose death rate in the country. Locals are fighting to save their neighbors—and their towns—from destruction.

Margaret Talbot on Patricia Highsmith’s “The Price of Salt,” which turned an erotic obsession into literary art.

Margaret Talbot on Senator Bernie Sanders, and how he emerged as a persistent challenger to Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary.

Why were the Muslim students Deah Barakat, Yusor Abu-Salha, and Razan Abu-Salha murdered in Chapel Hill? Margaret Talbot reports.

Alexander Payne, High Plains auteur.

Margaret Talbot writes about transgender youths and about Skylar, a teen-age boy who was born a girl, and had surgery at sixteen in order to transition.

Can we learn to rewrite our bad dreams?

Margaret Talbot on what tougher detention policies mean for the children of undocumented immigrants, from the March 3, 2008, issue of the magazine.

Margaret Talbot’s 2007 profile of the show’s creator, David Simon, with a behind-the-scenes look at the filming of “The Wire” ’s fifth season.

Can brain scans uncover lies?

Margaret Talbot on Justice Antonin Scalia. “Scalia revels in intellectual combat. And his certainty runs so deep that he views detractors with mild amusement.”