Marketed as a tool against terrorism, the spyware was also deployed by governments against journalists and activists. Isaac Chotiner interviews one of the targets.

The plot to kidnap the journalist Masih Alinejad from Brooklyn and deliver her to Iran sounds like something from a bad spy novel. But the F.B.I. says the threat was very real.

In a wide-ranging conversation, the likely next mayor of New York talks about what he considers the right way to stop and frisk a suspect—and about the city’s chronic “dysfunctionality.”

The food writer picks three cocktails to toast the reopening world, and mixes them on her colleague Michael Schulman’s baking hot roof.

The historian Marcia Chatelain talks about her Pulitzer Prize-winning book about McDonald’s and its complex relationships with Black franchise owners, workers, and communities.

The militants brutally oppose the education of girls. The founder of School of Leadership Afghanistan anxiously watches their resurgence, hoping that Kabul remains safe.

Three writers share on-the-job tales that they won’t be putting on their résumés.

The pop star recently detailed in court how nearly all of her decision-making power has been ceded to others. Two New Yorker writers tell the story of how that happened.

Justin Vernon and some of his collaborators in the celebrated indie band talk with Amanda Petrusich, and play songs off their latest album, “i,i.”