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Tests of Time

By Harper’s Magazine, Christopher Beha, on May 22, 2020

Making a magazine during a pandemic Read More

The Pessimistic Style in American Politics

By Harper’s Magazine, Thomas Frank, on May 15, 2020

Government of the people? Thomas Frank on the history of populism and anti-populism Read More

Constant Delighted Astonishment

By Harper’s Magazine, Geoffrey O’Brien, on May 8, 2020

Everybody loves a clown, so why don’t you? On Jacques Tati Read More

Dream State

By Harper’s Magazine, Yi-Ling Liu, on April 30, 2020

Mask on: pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong return to the streets Read More

The Money Question

By Harper’s Magazine, Christopher W. Shaw, on April 17, 2020

Peeling back the layers of the Federal Reserve—and thinking through potential reforms Read More

Dreams of Stone

By Harper’s Magazine, Ishion Hutchinson, on April 9, 2020

Transcendent moments of memory, authorship, heritage, and religion among the churches of Lalibela Read More

Good Guys with Guns

By Harper’s Magazine, James Pogue, on April 2, 2020

Rethinking America’s not-so-complicated relationship with guns Read More

The Old Normal

By Harper’s Magazine, Andrew J. Bacevich, on March 13, 2020

Into the morass: a historical view of America’s disastrous foreign policy Read More

Vicious Cycles

By Harper’s Magazine, Greg Jackson, on February 19, 2020

No news isn’t an option: a consideration of the function and meaning of the news media Read More

Selective Hearing

By Harper’s Magazine, Hugh Eakin, on February 12, 2020

Towards a critical understanding of podcasts Read More

“My Gang Is Jesus”

By Harper’s Magazine, Alex Cuadros, on January 30, 2020

Believe it or not: the simultaneous rise of gang membership and evangelical Christianity in Rio de Janeiro Read More

Trumpism After Trump

By Harper’s Magazine, Thomas Meaney, on January 16, 2020

More than four more years? A look at the philosophy and die-hard adherents of National Conservatism Read More

Oceans Apart

By Harper’s Magazine, Tommy Trenchard, on January 9, 2020

The Comoro Islands are a microcosm of the global climate crisis to come Read More

Click Here to Kill

By Harper’s Magazine, Brian Merchant, on December 31, 2019

Hiring a hitman online isn’t just speculative fiction Read More

Body Language

By Harper’s Magazine, Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, on December 24, 2019

More than the right word: on telling a genderqueer narrative Read More

More Than Thankful

By Harper’s Magazine, on November 27, 2019

Farm to table: the history of food activism in the United States Read More

Men at Work

By Harper’s Magazine, Barrett Swanson, on November 20, 2019

Beyond a primal scream: the problems with trying to solve the problem of toxic masculinity Read More

Impeachment and the Mueller Report

By Harper’s Magazine, on November 13, 2019

A panel of legal experts, lawmakers, and historians attempt to decode the enigmatic (or just unsatisfying) investigation, and discuss impeachment Read More

Left of Europe

By Violet Lucca, Ashley Smith, on November 6, 2019

Untangling the Brexit question with a panel of activists and leftists from around the United Kingdom Read More

To Serve Is to Rule

By Harper’s Magazine, on October 30, 2019

The not-so-good ol’ days: considering the WASP supremacy Read More

The K–12 Takeover

By Harper’s Magazine, on October 23, 2019

The tipping point: how charters and the Trump Administration are failing children Read More

Conditions of Impeachment

By Harper’s Magazine, on October 9, 2019

As part of a forum on the Constitution, five lawmakers and legal scholars consider probable cause for using the Fourteenth Amendment Read More

Good Bad Bad Good

By Harper’s Magazine, on October 2, 2019

Tube time: taking apart the Golden Age of TV Read More

The Wood Chipper

By Harper’s Magazine, on September 24, 2019

The inner workings of the N.F.L. Scouting Combine and the uncertain future of the game Read More

Common Ground

By Harper’s Magazine, on September 13, 2019

Feet of clay: on the troublesome uses of archeology, past and present Read More

The Black Axe

By Harper’s Magazine, on August 28, 2019

Everywhere and nowhere: tracing the evolution of a notorious Nigerian fraternity Read More

The Family

By Harper’s Magazine, on August 15, 2019

Brought into the light: Jeff Sharlet and Jesse Moss discuss the secretive, Washington-based religious organization that is the subject of a new Netflix docuseries Read More

The Call of the Drums

By Harper’s Magazine, on August 8, 2019

Where the barbarians are: the Hungarian right’s obsession with a false history Read More

The Last Frontier

By Harper’s Magazine, on July 31, 2019

Range life: the not entirely romantic existence of homesteaders in the San Luis Valley Read More

A Play with No End

By Harper’s Magazine, on July 25, 2019

Force majeure: What the American left could learn from the Gilets Jaunes Read More

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