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Byline: Dexter Filkins Borderline Chaos America's broken immigration system has spawned a national fight, but Congress lacks the will to fix it. Earlier this year, in a helicopter above the [...]

Byline: Dexter Filkins A Dangerous Game China has coveted its island neighbor for decades. Is Xi Jinping ready to seize it? On Kinmen, an outlying island of Taiwan, the Chinese [...]

Byline: Dexter Filkins Party Crasher Can Ron DeSantis supplant Trump as the dominant force of the G.O.P.? One Sunday afternoon in September, 2020, Jay Bhattacharya, an epidemiologist at Stanford University, [...]

Byline: Dexter Filkins An Accidental Revolutionary The woman who challenged Belarus's dictatorship. On the north side of Independence Square, in the Belarusian capital of Minsk, is the House of Government-a [...]

Byline: Dexter Filkins War with a Human Face Have rules to curb the cruelty of military force backfired? On the evening of March 9, 1945, the United States sent an [...]

Byline: Dexter Filkins What We Left Behind In the fall of 2001, as the United States and its allies swept into Afghanistan, the Taliban collapsed with surprising speed. Although the [...]

Byline: Dexter Filkins Last Exit In Afghanistan, will peace talks and the prospect of an American withdrawal create a breakthrough or a collapse? On the night of August 14th, Fawzia [...]

WARHow Conflict Shaped UsBy Margaret MacMillan After the Napoleonic Wars ended on the fields of Belgium, in 1815, many British took to wearing dentures that had been pried from the [...]

Byline: Dexter Filkins The Uncounted With the election hanging in the balance, Republican leaders continue a long fight over who can vote. Betty Riddle grew up in Sarasota, Florida, in [...]

Byline: Dexter Filkins The Enemy Is Here After decades of hostility with America, Ayatollah Khamenei faces threats from within his own country. tifIllustration by Tyler Comrie. Photograph by Probst / [...]

Byline: Dexter Filkins Blood and Soil in India A Hindu-nationalist government has cast two hundred million Muslims as internal enemies. tifIllustration by Tyler Comrie. Photographs by Chris Stein / Getty [...]

Byline: Dexter Filkins Damned if You Don't Samantha Power and the moral logic of humanitarian intervention. tifIllustration by Malika FavreAn activist turned adviser, Power saw how good intentions could go [...]

Byline: Dexter Filkins On the Warpath Can John Bolton sell an isolationist President on military force? tifPhotograph by Mark Peterson / Redux for The New YorkerA former official said, of [...]

Byline: Dexter Filkins Enigma Machines Was there a connection between a Russian bank and the Trump campaign? tifIllustration by Jarek WaszulA set of cryptic data has inspired a years-long argument [...]

THE BURNING SHORES Inside the Battle for the New Libya By Frederic Wehrey 326 pp. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $28. In 2011, a vast uprising of ordinary people across the [...]

Byline: Dexter Filkins The Ascent A Saudi prince's quest to remake the Middle East. tifIllustration by Matt Dorfman; photographs by (clockwise from top left): Fayez Nureldine / AFP / Getty; [...]

Byline: Barry Blitt Thumbs-Down [...]

Byline: Dexter Filkins The Breaking Point Will Donald Trump let Rex Tillerson do his job? One afternoon in late September, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called a meeting of the [...]

Byline: Dexter Filkins The Warrior Monk James Mattis spent four decades on the front lines. How will he lead the Department of Defense? On January 22nd, two days after President [...]

THE WAY OF THE STRANGERSEncounters With the Islamic State By Graeme Wood 317 pp. Random House. $28. In early 2011, as American forces were packing up to leave Iraq after [...]

Byline: Dexter Filkins Before the Flood A failing dam threatens millions of Iraqis. On the morning of August 7, 2014, a team of fighters from the Islamic State, riding in [...]

Byline: Dexter Filkins The Thirty-Year Coup Did an exiled cleric try to overthrow the Turkish government? At nine o'clock on the night of July 15th, General Hulusi Akar, the chief [...]

The four big smokestacks at the Doura power plant in Baghdad have always served as subversive truth-tellers. No matter what Saddam Hussein's propagandists said about electricity supplies, people knew they […]

Byline: BY DEXTER FILKINS DANGEROUS FICTIONS The writer Mohammed Hanif probes for truth in Pakistan. One recent afternoon, the writer Mohammed Hanif climbed out of his car at the Benazir [...]

Byline: BY DEXTER FILKINS THE END OF ICE Exploring a Himalayan glacier. The journey to the Chhota Shigri Glacier, in the Himalayan peaks of northern India, begins thousands of feet [...]

Byline: -Dexter Filkins A TRUCE IN SYRIA Last tuesday, Amaq, a news agency associated with the Islamic State, reported that isis fighters had captured the village of Khanaser from the [...]

Byline: BY DEXTER FILKINS SWAMPED Jeb Bush's fight over the Everglades. On the afternoon of December 11, 2000, Jeb Bush, the forty-third governor of Florida and a member of the [...]

Byline: BY DEXTER FILKINS SHOT IN THE HEART When Yitzhak Rabin was killed, did the prospects for peace perish, too? Assassination is an unpredictable act. Historically speaking, high-profile political killings [...]

Byline: BY DEXTER FILKINS DEATH OF A PROSECUTOR Alberto Nisman accused Iran and Argentina of colluding to bury a terrorist attack. Did it get him killed? In the last days [...]

KHIRBET KHIZEH By S. Yizhar Translated by Nicholas de Lange and Yaacob Dweck 127 pp. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Paper, $14. Nearly 70 years ago, an intelligence officer with the [...]

KNIFE FIGHTS A Memoir of Modern War in Theory and Practice By John A. Nagl Illustrated. 269 pp. The Penguin Press. $27.95. The clich has it that armies always prepare [...]

WHAT WE LEFT BEHIND An increasingly authoritarian leader, a return of sectarian violence, and a nation worried for its future. On Christmas Day last year, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki appeared [...]

REDEPLOYMENT By Phil Klay 291 pp. The Penguin Press. $26.95. War is too weird a thing to make sense of when it's actually happening. It's not just the combat, which [...]

Last February, some of Iran's most influential leaders gathered at the Amir al-Momenin Mosque, in northeast Tehran, inside a gated community reserved for officers of the Revolutionary Guard. They had [...]

THE BLOOD TELEGRAM Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide By Gary J. Bass Illustrated. 499 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $30. In the 40-odd years that America and the Soviet Union [...]