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Operation firstfruits Where is the line between journalism and espionage? And what happens when your own government thinks you’ve crossed it? By Barton Gellman The Case of the Phantom Papyrus A renowned Oxford scholar claimed that he discovered a first-century gospel fragment whose text closely matched modern Bibles. Now he’s facing allegations of antiquities theft, cover-up, and fraud. By Ariel Sabar
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THE SECOND CAREER OF MARTELLUS BENNETT
The former NFL tight end writes the kind of children’s books he would have loved as a kid.
THE COVID-19 MANHATTAN PROJECT
NEVER HAVE SO MANY RESEARCHERS TRAINED THEIR MINDS ON A SINGLE PROBLEM IN SO BRIEF A TIME. SCIENCE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME.
THE LEGACY OF DONALD TRUMP
His reign of lies poisoned our minds and our politics, with effects that will long linger. But democracy survived.
The Most American Religion
Perpetual outsiders, Mormons spent 200 years assimilating to a certain national ideal—only to find their country in an identity crisis. What will the third century of the faith look like?
THE MAKING OF A MODEL MINORITY
Indian Americans rarely stop to ask why our entrance into American society has been so rapid—or to consider what we have in common with other nonwhite Americans.
More Than the Vote
The suffragists’ struggle produced undaunted trailblazers, Black and white, who continued to pursue social reform.
The Committee on Life and Death
As COVID-19 has overwhelmed hospitals, the lack of clear bioethical guidelines has meant that doctors have had to make wrenching life-and-death decisions on the fly. The result has been chaos and unnecessary suffering, among both patients and clinicians. As the country prepares to distribute vaccines, we’re at risk of reprising this chaos.
JEANS NOW, PAY LATER
Are the new online services that allow you to buy just about anything in installments—interest-free—too good to be true?
China's Rebel Historians
Defiant researchers chronicle a past that the Communist Party grows ever more intent on erasing.
How Great Is Martin Amis?
Assessing the legacy of a comic master who grasps for seriousness
