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New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI.

A former C.I.A. officer says that he recruited scientists as part of the United States’ effort to disrupt Iran’s nuclear program.

A wealthy couple obtained dozens of children through surrogates. Did they want a family, or something else?

After a newborn died of opioid poisoning, a new branch of pediatrics came into being. But the evidence doesn’t add up.

The tariff cheerleader established the template of sycophancy for Trump Administration officials.

The Irish cocaine trafficker commands a billion-dollar empire from the U.A.E. Why isn’t he in prison? Ed Caesar reports.

In the past few years, as many as two million people have escaped the island’s repressive regime and collapsing economy. Those who’ve made it to the U.S. face a new reckoning. Jon Lee Anderson reports.

The Trump Administration has ignored legal protocols and stoked fears about the gang Tren de Aragua while arresting asylum seekers in Aurora, Colorado, and across the U.S. Jonathan Blitzer reports.

Some psychiatric patients may actually have treatable autoimmune conditions. But what happens to the newly sane? Rachel Aviv reports.

With global conflicts increasingly shaped by drones and A.I., the American military risks losing its dominance. Dexter Filkins reports.

The President’s threats to leave the alliance have spurred more defense spending, troop deployments, and other military preparations by European nations, particularly after Russia’s Ukraine invasion. Joshua Yaffa reports.

In Sudan’s third civil war, Arab supremacists have been targeting non-Arab groups like the Nuba with genocidal violence. Nicolas Niarchos reports on a Nuba family’s flight from Khartoum.

Why are incarcerated people dying from lack of food or water, even as private companies are paid millions for their care? Sarah Stillman reports.

When a prosecutor began chasing an accused serial rapist, she lost her job but unravelled a scandal. Ronan Farrow reports on why the police refused to investigate Sean Williams.

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.

David Lammy, the U.K.’s top diplomat in the government of the Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer, must navigate Brexit fallout, the new Trump Administration, and conflicts involving Russia, Ukraine, Israel, Gaza, and the U.N. Sam Knight reports.

In Ohio, Catholic bishops and the Center for Christian Virtue have teamed up with Republican politicians to advocate for school vouchers that shift money away from low-income students and public schools. Alec MacGillis reports.

Gerald (Gerry) Fremlin, the partner of the Nobel Prize-winning author, sexually abused her daughter Andrea. The abuse transformed Munro’s books and short stories. Rachel Aviv speaks to Munro’s children, Andrea, Sheila, and Jenny.

After the no-confidence vote against Prime Minister Michel Barnier, Macron is confronting challenges including those posed by the Rassemblement National, or R.N., party, led by the right-wing politicians Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella. Lauren Collins reports.

The maritime researcher Nigel Pickford looks for sunken treasure and has helped to discover dozens of historic shipwrecks, containing millions of dollars’ worth of recovered cargoes. Sam Knight reports.

From Coinbase to OpenAI, the tech sector is pouring millions into super PACS that intimidate politicians into supporting its agenda. Charles Duhigg reports.

For years, Russia has been using the Norwegian town of Kirkenes, which borders its nuclear stronghold, as a laboratory, testing intelligence operations there before replicating them across Europe, Ben Taub writes.

3M found that many of its products, including Scotchgard and Scotchban, leached toxic chemicals called PFAS. Sharon Lerner reports on why the company kept making them.

Sam Knight on the Tory U.K. Prime Ministers David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, and Rishi Sunak, and issues including Brexit, the N.H.S., inflation, housing, and the economy.

Kathryn Schulz reports on severe solar storms, which may have the potential to upend many technologies essential to our daily lives, from G.P.S. and the power grid to communications satellites and FEMA emergency-response systems.

With elections postponed and no foreseeable end to the war with Vladimir Putin and Russia, Masha Gessen writes about the state of Ukrainian democracy under President Volodymyr Zelensky.

“Hypercars,” made by such manufacturers as Bugatti and Koenigsegg, can approach or even exceed 300 m.p.h. Often costing millions of dollars, they’re ostentatious trophies—and sublime engines of innovation. Ed Caesar reports from test tracks around the world.

Across the U.S., felony-murder laws hold people responsible for killings they didn’t commit, putting thousands of Americans—disproportionately young and Black—in prison. Sarah Stillman looks at the case of Sadik Baxter.

Party officials are vanishing, young workers are “lying flat,” and entrepreneurs are fleeing the country. What does China’s inner turmoil mean for the world? Evan Osnos reports.

The conservative Christian group that overturned Roe v. Wade has won fifteen Supreme Court cases. Now it wants religious exemptions to anti-discrimination laws. David D. Kirkpatrick reports.

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

Joseph Mitchell writes about New York’s rats, whose population increased during the Second World War, and speaks to various experts about the creatures’ habits and the difficulties of exterminating them.

As the emirate’s ruler espoused gender equality, four royal women staked their lives on escaping his control, Heidi Blake reports.

Drug syndicates and other criminal groups bought into the idea that a new kind of phone network couldn’t be infiltrated by cops. They were wrong—big time. Ed Caesar reports.

After the death of a reporter who investigated narcopolitics, her colleagues formed a secret collective to bring the killers to justice—and challenge a culture of impunity, Melissa del Bosque writes.

Rumors destroyed Hazim Nada’s company. Then hackers handed him terabytes of files exposing a covert campaign against him—and the culprit wasn’t a rival but an entire country, David D. Kirkpatrick reports.

The first ten days were soccer as it is, rather than as you want it to be, Sam Knight writes.

It began as a visionary notion—that patients could die with dignity at home. Now it’s a twenty-two-billion-dollar industry plagued by exploitation, Ava Kofman writes.

For low-lying islands like Kivalina, climate change poses an existential threat, Emily Witt writes.

At a dangerous moment in Iran, the filmmaker stands accused by one of his former students, Rachel Aviv writes.

Stephania Taladrid writes about the multigenerational network of activists getting abortion pills across the Mexican border to Americans.

David Kortava on civilians being snatched from their homes and sent away for ideological screening, prolonged detention, and, in some cases, starvation and torture. Is there a larger plan at work?

Jon Lee Anderson on Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, who was heralded as a unifier after ending a decades-long border conflict. Now critics accuse him of tearing the country apart.

Jane Mayer writes about how gerrymandering has let unchecked Republicans pass extremist laws, even in moderate places like Ohio, that could never make it through Congress.

Luxury ships attract outrage and political scrutiny, but the ultra-rich are buying them in record numbers, Evan Osnos writes.

Inna fled the war with her two young girls—but what would happen to her husband, her mother, and her other relatives? Ed Caesar reports.

A hot-headed coder is accused of exposing the agency’s hacking arsenal. Did he betray his country because he was pissed off at his colleagues? Patrick Radden Keefe reports on the investigation.

Jane Mayer writes that, behind closed doors, Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife is working with many groups directly involved in controversial cases before the Court.

Dexter Filkins writes about how Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya came to challenge her country’s dictatorship.

Ian Urbina writes that the E.U., tired of migrants arriving from Africa, has created a shadow immigration system that captures them before they reach its shores, and sends them to brutal Libyan detention centers run by militias.

There’s no way to confirm that a crop was grown organically, Ian Parker writes. Randy Constant exploited our trust in the labels—and made a fortune.

The country’s cyber forces have raked in billions of dollars for the regime by pulling off schemes ranging from A.T.M. heists to cryptocurrency thefts, Ed Caesar writes. Can they be stopped?

As mass detentions and surveillance dominate the lives of China’s Uyghurs and Kazakhs, a woman struggles to free herself, Raffi Khatchadourian writes.

While political leaders trade threats, the pandemic has made Americans even more reliant on China’s manufacturers, Peter Hessler writes.

Dexter Filkins on whether peace talks with the Taliban and the prospect of an American withdrawal will create a breakthrough or a collapse.

Trump transformed immigration through hundreds of quiet measures. Before they can be reversed, they have to be uncovered, Sarah Stillman writes.

To get her fellow-citizens to care about threatened animals, Paula Kahumbu became a TV star, Jon Lee Anderson writes.

Some of Trump’s supporters had been declaring, at rally after rally, that they would go to violent lengths to keep the President in power, Luke Mogelson writes. A chronicle of an attack foretold.

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

The President has survived one impeachment, twenty-six accusations of sexual misconduct, and an estimated four thousand lawsuits. What happens when his Presidential immunity is gone?

There’s no other country where the pandemic’s effects have been so concentrated in a single city, Peter Hessler writes.

The F.B.I. tried to recruit an Iranian scientist as an informant. When he balked, the payback was brutal, Laura Secor reports.

Peter Hessler on teaching and learning in Sichuan during the pandemic.

Once a distant outpost of the British Empire, the islands have become a global crossroads. In the season of the coronavirus, the intimate communities may evolve yet again, Larissa MacFarquhar writes.

Rachel Aviv on a penitentiary with one of the U.S.’s largest coronavirus outbreaks, where prison terms become death sentences.

Many Syrians thought that the U.S. cared about them. Now they know better, Luke Mogelson writes.

Rachel Aviv on Sharon Stern, who devoted herself to Butoh and whose mentor may have led her down a dangerous path.

Paige Williams reports on the people struggling with addiction who share a lethal dose of drugs and are then prosecuted as killers.

Ben Taub on Omar Ameen, who came to the U.S. to escape violence in Iraq and was subsequently accused of being a member of an ISIS hit squad.