At Qatar’s World Cup, Where Politics and Pleasure Collide
by Sam Knight

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

How Hospice Became a For-Profit Hustle
by Ava Kofman

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.

An Alaskan Town Is Losing Ground—and a Way of Life
by Emily Witt

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

Did the Oscar-Winning Director Asghar Farhadi Steal Ideas?
by Rachel Aviv

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

The Post-Roe Abortion Underground
by Stephania Taladrid

A multigenerational network of activists is getting abortion pills across the Mexican border to Americans.

State Legislatures Are Torching Democracy
by Jane Mayer

Even in moderate places like Ohio, gerrymandering has let unchecked Republicans pass extremist laws that could never make it through Congress.

The Surreal Case of a C.I.A. Hacker’s Revenge
by Patrick Radden Keefe

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?

Is Ginni Thomas a Threat to the Supreme Court?
by Jane Mayer

Behind closed doors, Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife is working with many groups directly involved in controversial cases before the Court.

The Accidental Revolutionary Leading Belarus’s Uprising
by Dexter Filkins

How Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya came to challenge her country’s dictatorship.

The Secretive Prisons That Keep Migrants Out of Europe
by Ian Urbina

Tired of migrants arriving from Africa, the E.U. 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.