Long Reads

Photo essay.

Advances in DNA technology and artificial intelligence may usher in a more Orwellian world. But do they work?

UnitedHealth Group is not an insurer, it's a platform. And it's in the crosshairs as Elizabeth Warren and Josh Hawley propose breaking it apart, severing its pharmacy arm from the rest of the business

Designed as dignified places for healing, the psychiatric hospitals promoted by Thomas Story Kirkbride and Dorothea Dix were quickly overcrowded and underfunded — a failure that haunts us today.

Inside the fight to memorialize victims of the military junta that ruled over the South American nation in the 1970s and ‘80s

A 2022 work van crash and subsequent $1.8M in court-ordered back wages and damages cast a spotlight on the decorative forest products industry.

• Mali’s armed forces, supported by the Russia-backed Wagner Group, and Islamist armed groups have committed serious abuses against civilians since the UN peacekeeping mission withdrew a year ago.
• Malian authorities’ failure to hold members of the security forces, the Wagner Group, and Islamist armed groups to account for grave abuses has eased the way for further atrocities.
• The Malian government should work with the National Human Rights Commission and the UN independent expert on the situation of human rights in Mali to establish a reliable means of monitoring and reporting on armed groups’ and security forces’ abuses.

Why the kinship between artificial intelligence and the human mind is terrifying.

Foreign women who experience sexual abuse must fight against overbearing institutions and discriminatory attitudes to find safety and justice

A story of deception and redemption: The high-profile murder of a 5-year-old boy — and his mother’s quest to free his convicted killer.

Artificial intelligence could reveal how animals of the land, sea and sky talk to others of their species.

After Kimberly Ray’s tragic death, her family found out just how hard it is to hold Texas medical providers to account.

Despite jail, torture, and death threats, activists are resisting the Taliban in the country and abroad

How to Reduce Formaldehyde Exposure in Your Home

A new kind of prosthetic limb depends on carbon fibre and computer chips—and the reëngineering of muscles, tendons, and bone.

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