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Why Animals Don’t Get Lost
Birds do it. Bees do it. Learning about the astounding navigational feats of wild creatures can teach us a lot about where we’re going, Kathryn Schulz writes.
John Updike, Jonathan Franzen, Denis Johnson, Roger Angell, Aharon Appelfeld, Rebecca Mead, Susan Sontag, Amitav Ghosh, and Donald Antrim respond to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Olo can be described as the “greenest green,” though it can never be captured by a camera, Rivka Galchen writes. But its development tells us a lot about our color vision.
Inside the Data Centers That Train A.I. and Drain the Electrical Grid
Generating the power required by Claude, Grok, Gemini, ChatGPT, and other A.I. tools will release billions of pounds of carbon dioxide, accelerating climate change. Stephen Witt reports.
How a Man in Prison Stole Millions from Billionaires
Charles Bethea writes about Arthur Lee Cofield, Jr., a prisoner in Georgia who took money from large bank accounts and bought houses, cars, clothes, and gold.
A junior premed student, Sinedu Tadesse, took the life of her closest friend, Trang Ho, then her own. She left behind a shocked campus, unanswered questions, and her diary.
The Open-Air Prison for ISIS Supporters—and Victims
Since the Islamic State fell, tens of thousands of people—many of them children—have been herded into al-Hol, a giant fenced camp in Syria, and effectively given life sentences. Anand Gopal reports.
Bellow meditates on the photographs and images that have formed his inner life — and on memory, loss, and the strange power of the visual to outlast the people it depicts.
Did a Climber Leave His Girlfriend to Die at the Top of a Mountain?
A couple—an experienced mountaineer and his girlfriend, a novice—set out to climb Austria’s tallest mountain. She died near the summit. Was it a case of “alpine divorce”? William Finnegan reports.
"Magic Mountain" is a famous 2012 article by The New Yorker staff writer Nick Paumgarten, detailing the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland. It provides a sharp, witty look at the global elite and corporate speed-dating at 5,000 feet.
Adeline Goss writes about the case of Ray Howell, an Indiana physician who was arrested in 2011, on charges of recklessly prescribing narcotics, but who received a diagnosis, during the criminal proceedings, of a rare neurological condition that left his culpability in doubt.
Researchers at the company are trying to understand their A.I. system’s mind—examining its neurons, running it through psychology experiments, and putting it on the therapy couch.
How a Chinese Immigrant Driver Got Entangled in a Drug Bust
Jennifer Gonnerman reports on a driver from Queens who, in early 2025, arranged to pick up a passenger in New York’s North Country, and has been in jail upstate ever since.
Carson Griffith writes about Scott Pruitt, the most prolific super editor on Wikipedia, and the A.I. companies that lack the online encyclopedia’s human touch.
Thousands of people in Nigeria have been held for ransom by bandit groups. One professor escaped his captors—only to be abducted again. Alexis Okeowo reports.
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