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Conditions at primate-research centers often drive monkeys to the point of madness. Last year’s news-making escape has inspired an unlikely coalition of left-wing activists and MAGA loyalists that is demanding all lab animals be set free. Plus:

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At breeding and research centers like Alpha Genesis, conditions often drive monkeys to the point of madness. Photographs by Devin Lunsford for The New Yorker

David Remnick

Editor, The New Yorker

Last November, forty-three monkeys—rhesus

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