Category: The New Yorker

Inna fled the war with her two young girls—but what would happen to her husband, her mother, and her other relatives?

The joys and absurdities of finding oneself abandoned in a desolate landscape.

Stranded in Yemen’s war zone, a decaying supertanker has more than a million barrels of oil aboard. If—or when—it explodes or sinks, thousands may die.

The country’s cyber forces have raked in billions of dollars for the regime by pulling off schemes ranging from A.T.M. heists to cryptocurrency thefts. Can they be stopped?

Three journeys from the past century—a rogue adventurer’s, my father’s, and mine—converged in the air.

Eira Thomas’s company has used radical new methods to find some of the biggest uncut gems in history.

A young Englishman got mixed up in a white-supremacist movement. Then he learned of a plot to kill a politician.

The U.K. is in a panic over voters’ decision to withdraw from the E.U. But the pugnacious millionaire whose donations—and Trumpian scare tactics—helped sway Britons has no regrets.

A P.R. company that worked with dictators and oligarchs deliberately inflamed racial tensions in South Africa—and destroyed itself in the process.

Anna Lyndsey’s memoir of extreme light sensitivity got rave reviews—but doctors have doubts about her story.