May 5, 2025

The Times won four Pulitzer Prizes today. Listen to a few of the stories.

Explanatory Reporting

Mullah Osman Jawhari at his home in Waygal, in Nuristan Province in Afghanistan. Bryan Denton for The New York Times

How America Created the Enemy It Feared Most

What the U.S. really left behind in Afghanistan.

General Abdul Raziq in his office in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Victor J. Blue for The New York Times

America’s Monster: Who Was Abdul Raziq?

He murdered and tortured in Afghanistan. America helped him do it.

International Reporting

Fighters with the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North on a hill overlooking Kadugli, a provincial capital in Sudan. Moises Saman for The New York Times

The War in Sudan That the World Forgot

Our journalists spent two weeks traveling with a rebel group in Sudan to document the civil war there.

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