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  1. social studies
    Inside the Craziest College-Admissions Season EverMore applicants, new rules, and even less clarity from schools.
  2. unnatural disasters
    The Sea Creatures That Opened a New Mystery About MH370Could freaky barnacles do what advanced technology couldn’t — find the missing plane?
  3. the inside game
    BRITAIN-NIRELAND-CONFLICT-PEACE
    The Return of the ClintonsBill talks economics with Biden. Hillary gives pointers to Harris. The former First Couple is as deep in politics as they have been since Trump won.
  4. family separation
    Pictures of the Year: Caravans: the new face of migration
    Will the Families Separated by Trump Ever Be Reunited?The Trump administration forcibly separated 5,000 families at the border. Five years later, the work of reunifying them is painfully incomplete.
  5. the national interest
    Trump Has Finally Remade Republicans Into Putin’s PlaythingsHis admiration of Russia no longer renders him strange or suspect within the party.
  6. drug wars
    The Empty Adderall FactoryA drugmaker’s feud with the DEA is exacerbating the ADHD meds crisis — at a rate of 600 million missing doses a year.
  7. early and often
    Inside the Three-Way Race to Fill California’s Senate SeatAdam Schiff, Katie Porter, and Barbara Lee each represent a distinct way forward for liberals. But the decision might have already been made for them.
  8. the money game
    Bill Ackman Strikes BackHis fight has made him the public face of a billionaire class anxious it no longer rules the world.
  9. social studies
    How We Lost Our Minds About UFOsNo, aliens haven’t visited the Earth. Why are so many smart people insisting otherwise?
  10. early and often
    The Governor’s Wife Has Decided to Be a SenatorThe First Lady of New Jersey is leveraging her husband’s power to lock up the Democratic nomination for Senate. She appears unstoppable.
  11. social studies
    Inventing the Perfect College ApplicantFor $120,000 a year, Christopher Rim promises to turn any student into Ivy bait.
  12. the power trip
    Trump Haters Turned Trump VotersWhy do so many Americans seem open to giving him a second chance?
  13. off the grid
    The Women Who Walked AwayWhat drove a Colorado mother to flee into the Rocky Mountains with her teenage son and her sister?
  14. vision 2024
    Do You Remember the Ecstasy of Electing Joe Biden?How the coalition that defeated Donald Trump crumbled.
  15. first person
    Tom Scocca: Unraveling My Medical MysteryThe strangest things happen to other people’s bodies. Then they began happening to my own.
  16. the schoolyard
    How Rich (or Not) Do You Have to Be to Get Into the Ivy League?Kids whose parents make $158,200 to $222,400 a year have the worst odds of Ivy League acceptance.
  17. vision 2024
    The Alarming Calm of the Biden CampaignThe campaign to reelect the extremely old man dragged down by inflation and war and trailing his criminally indicted opponent is going great.
  18. the money game
    Jamie Dimon’s $4 Trillion MachineHe made JPMorgan Chase the biggest bank in the world. What is it, exactly?
  19. the national interest
    Nikki Haley’s Rocket Ride to Second PlaceHer boomlet is the GOP’s weakest challenge to Trump yet.
  20. the power trip
    The Mind-Bending Politics of RFK Jr.’s Spoiler CampaignBiden says he’s a conservative. Trump says he’s a liberal. They’re both right — and he could turn the presidential race upside down.
  21. the body politic
    Abortion Wins Again. Now What?Democrats can’t coast on the issue’s popularity.
  22. unsolved mysteries
    What Really Happened to JFK?One thing’s for sure: The CIA doesn’t want you to know.
  23. games
    What Money Can’t Buy Steve CohenThe billionaire hedge-funder is used to getting what he wants. His time as Mets owner and casino bidder is a whole different ballgame.
  24. vision 2024
    The Radical Pessimism of Cornel WestCondemned by Establishment Democrats, dismissed by academics. What else is there to do but run for president?
  25. the money game
    The Real SBF Stood UpAn open-and-shut case finally revealed the criminal behind the legend.
  26. politics
    Nadine and Bob Menendez’s Flashy, Allegedly Corrupt, RomanceThe New Jersey senator had nicknamed his wife Bubbles. It seemed like they were having a lot of fun together before they were both indicted.
  27. exhibit a
    Trump’s Big Loss From the Georgia Plea Deals Isn’t What You ThinkA familiar hype cycle begins anew.
  28. power
    Melissa DeRosa’s Revenge CampaignAndrew Cuomo’s right-hand woman is settling scores.
  29. the national interest
    Your Moral Equation Must Have Human Beings on Both SidesIgnoring universal humanity is the path to murder.
  30. the power trip
    Do Any of These People Stand a Chance Against Trump?On the trail with the candidates vying (in theory, anyway) for the Republican nomination.
  31. exhibit a
    Menendez Followed the Supreme Court’s Bribery PlaybookAnd thanks to inaction by Congress, he might beat the case.
  32. tomorrow
    Sam Altman Is the Oppenheimer of Our AgeHe insists the artificial intelligence he is creating could destroy civilization even as he hastens its advancement. Do we know enough about him?
  33. the body politic
    The Return of the Marriage PlotWhy everyone is suddenly so eager for men and women to get hitched.
  34. stop the presses
    The Journalist and the BillionaireWalter Isaacson, schmoozy icon of the Old Media elite, has written a biography of Elon Musk, who despises all of those things.
  35. medicine
    The Mystery of Long COVID Is Just the BeginningAt Yale’s clinic, medical sleuth Lisa Sanders is trying almost everything.
  36. the city
    The Candy SellersThe lives and livelihoods of some of the city’s newest migrant children.
  37. the system
    Richard Hanania’s Chilling NormalityThe revealing case of the anti-woke crusader.
  38. the money game
    Is David Solomon Too Big a Jerk to Run Goldman Sachs?Inside a banking mutiny.
  39. neighborhood news
    Voguing Through the Pain at O’Shae Sibley’s MemorialHundreds gathered at the vigil for the dancer, whose killing has been charged as a hate crime.
  40. exhibit a
    How Nancy Pelosi’s Long Game Led to Trump’s IndictmentThe longtime Democratic leader and prominent Trump antagonist played an essential role in the historic indictment of the former president.
  41. city people
    What Dan Doctoroff BuiltUnder Mayor Bloomberg, the power broker remade the city with astonishing speed. Now, as New York is again mired in crisis, he faces his own.
  42. social studies
    How Trauma Became America’s Favorite DiagnosisPsychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk’s once controversial theory of trauma became the dominant way we make sense of our lives.
  43. the national interest
    The Democrats Can’t Wave Away Their Hunter Biden ProblemHow the party can clean up the Supreme Court and address the president’s son’s ethics scandals.
  44. fertility
    The Global Sperm Count Decline Has Created Big BusinessThe tantalizing business opportunities and disorienting politics of the worldwide decline in man’s most precious bodily fluid.
  45. office apocalypse
    New Glut CityThe city’s mega-office landlords are panicking, pivoting, and shedding what’s worthless. One opens his books.
  46. street fights
    The IHOP Kingpin vs. the American RevolutionariesWhen Domenic Broccoli set out to expand his pancake empire to upstate New York, he didn’t expect to find a grave site — or start a war.
  47. the national interest
    The Last Republican PoliticianCan John Roberts stave off a Democratic assault on the Supreme Court?
  48. power
    Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Inside JobHow a conspiracy-spewing literal Kennedy posing as a populist outsider jolted the Democratic Party.