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The Ghosts in the Machine

by Liz Pelly,

Spotify’s plot against musicians

Revenge Plot

by Lauren Oyler,

The GOP’s identity crisis

Demographics
vs. Destiny

by Matthew Shen Goodman,

The dawn of the Asian-American conservative

The Thin Purple Line

by Jasper Craven,

The dubious rise of the private-security industry

What Goes Up

by Andrew Lipstein,

Does the rise of index funds spell catastrophe?

The Life and Death of Hollywood

by Daniel Bessner,

Film and television writers face an existential threat

The Eviction Experts

by Mya Frazier,

Can a city stop a housing crisis?

Israel’s War Within

by Bernard Avishai,

On the ruinous history of Religious Zionism

The Machine Breaker

by Christopher Ketcham,

Inside the mind of an “ecoterrorist”

Waiting for the Lights

by Amir Ahmadi Arian,

The life of an Iranian exile

At Random

by Christian Lorentzen,

The business of books and the merger that wasn’t

Letterman

by Will Self,

The surgeon who signed his work

A Hole in the Head

by Zachary Siegel,

Can a brain implant treat drug addiction?

Tree Sleuths

by Lauren Markham,

How DNA is transforming the fight against illegal logging

The Victim Cloud

by Hannah Zeavin,

Gullibility in the golden age of scams

Night Shifts

by Michael W. Clune,

Can technology shape our dreams?

Voice Lessons

by T. M. Luhrmann,

How coaches get in athletes’ heads

The Great Wall of Steel

by Ian Buruma,

Xi Jinping remakes Chinese nationalism

Ad Astra

by Rachel Riederer,

The coming battle over space

To Be a Field of Poppies

by Lisa Wells,

The elegant science of turning cadavers into compost

Bad News

by Joseph Bernstein,

Selling the story of disinformation

Stages of Grief

by William Deresiewicz,

What the pandemic has done to the arts

Sign of the Times

by James Harkin,

Caliphate and the perils of reporting online

Lost in Thought

by David Kortava,

The psychological risks of meditation

In the Net

by Trudy Lieberman,

For years, Michael Ransford had known he would need surgery for his umbilical hernia. “People said if it ruptured, it could kill me,” the sixty-year-old farmer told me. The pain…

The Gate of Heaven Is Everywhere

by Fred Bahnson,

Among the contemplatives

Skin in the Game

by Avi Asher-Schapiro,

Wall Street’s answer to the student-debt crisis

America’s Game

by Kent Russell,

The reprise and demise of the XFL

The Big Tech Extortion Racket

by Barry C. Lynn,

How Google, Amazon, and Facebook control our lives

On Moral Injury

by Janine di Giovanni,

Can a new diagnosis help heal our souls?

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