David Remnick talks with New York’s likely next mayor, Eric Adams. Once a victim of police abuse and now an advocate for the N.Y.P.D., Adams will have to navigate some of the city’s most divisive debates. And two stories about threats to journalists: a close look at how the Pegasus spyware technology targeted a reporter in India; and the indictment of Iranian nationals for a kidnapping plot on U.S. soil that reads like something out of a bad spy novel.
Eric Adams Talks with David RemnickIn a wide-ranging conversation, the likely next mayor of New York talks about what he considers the correct way to stop and frisk a suspect—and about the city’s chronic “dysfunctionality.”
An Iranian Plot Grew in BrooklynThe 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 that the threat was very real.
The Damning Revelations about PegasusMarketed as a tool against terrorism, the spyware was also deployed by governments against journalists and activists. Isaac Chotiner interviews one of the targets.
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