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The New Yorker’s Jia Tolentino Wins a 2023 National Magazine Award

The staff writer was honored Tuesday for columns and essays about abortion before and after the repeal of Roe v. Wade.By The New YorkerMarch 28, 2023Photograph by Elena MuddThe New Yorker staff writer Jia Tolentino won a National Magazine Award on Tuesday for her writing about abortion. The prize, conferred by the American Society of Magazine Editors,...

Wed Mar 29, 2023 03:48
An Abandoned American Hostage Finally Makes It Home

After more than two years of neglect by the Trump and Biden Administrations, Mark Frerichs describes how he survived Taliban captivity in Afghanistan.By Michael AmesMarch 8, 2023Photographs by Jamie Kelter DavisThe worst two and a half years of Mark Frerichs’s life began with a fatal car crash. On a snow-and-ice-covered road north of Kabul on January...

Wed Mar 8, 2023 13:37
The Lingering Mystery of the Alex Murdaugh Murder Trial

Alex Murdaugh is escorted into the Colleton County Courthouse, in Walterboro, South Carolina, on Friday. He received two life sentences.Photograph by Andrew J. Whitaker / Post and Courier / APThe jury reached a guilty verdict in less than three hours, but for many observers the human element of the story didn’t quite add up.By James LasdunMarch 7, 2023The...

Wed Mar 8, 2023 01:34
How the Government Cancelled Betty Ann’s Debts

Illustration by Madison KetchamFor a ninety-one-year-old law-school graduate, the Department of Education cancelled more than three hundred thousand dollars in student debt. Could relief be that simple?By Eleni SchirmerFebruary 23, 2023On August 2nd, Betty Ann, who is ninety-one years old, was having a slow morning. She woke up late, flicked on the...

Thu Feb 23, 2023 21:14
How the Government Forgave Betty Ann’s Debts

Illustration by Madison KetchamFor a ninety-one-year-old law-school graduate, the Department of Education cancelled more than three hundred thousand dollars in student debt. Could relief be that simple?By Eleni SchirmerFebruary 23, 2023On August 2nd, Betty Ann, who is ninety-one years old, was having a slow morning. She woke up late, flicked on the...

Thu Feb 23, 2023 20:13
Will Football Leaks Finally Blow Up the Premier League?

Manchester City, a top soccer team in the English Premier League, is accused of breaking the league’s rules numerous times, mainly in ways related to financial honesty.Photograph by Alex Gottschalk / Getty Rui Pinto, a Portuguese hacker, set into motion the investigation that now threatens the future of Manchester City, English soccer’s most successful...

Fri Feb 10, 2023 23:03

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