Ryann Liebenthal | Harper's Magazine

From this author

Bleakness Stakes

By Ryann Liebenthal, Shayla Love,

From summaries of police-brutality cases recently settled by the city of Baltimore. An investigation conducted last year by the Baltimore Sun found that police-misconduct settlements have cost the city nearly…

Weekly Review

By Ryann Liebenthal, on May 19, 2015

An Amtrak train derails, a Bangladeshi blogger is hacked to death, and an African-American boy who was maced at an anti–police-brutality protest is grateful he wasn’t shot

Weekly Review

By Ryann Liebenthal, on February 17, 2015

A Muslim family is killed over a parking space in North Carolina, Netflix launches in Cuba, and an Indian woman who is 95 percent genetically male gives birth to twins

Weekly Review

By Ryann Liebenthal, on December 9, 2014

Americans protest police brutality, 188 Muslim Brotherhood supporters are sentenced to death in Egypt, and 14 people are arrested for using the Domino's pizza-ordering app to test stolen credit card numbers.

Weekly Review

By Ryann Liebenthal, on October 28, 2014

Ebola arrives in New York, a high school student opens fire on classmates in Washington, and protestors in Hong Kong worry that Kenny G is an agent of the Chinese government

Weekly Review

By Ryann Liebenthal, on September 16, 2014

Obama announces air strikes in Iraq; a monsoon superfloods India; and California nudists cover up for the Man

Weekly Review

By Ryann Liebenthal, on June 10, 2014

Unity and disunity in Palestine, NYRB vs. CIA, and John Roberts marries art criticism with jurisprudence