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The Black Axe

by Harper’s Magazine, on August 28, 2019

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

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

The Call of the Drums

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Jacob Mikanowski on August 8, 2019

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

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

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

The Hardest Music and the Softest Animals

by Harper’s Magazine, on July 12, 2019

Nell Zink discusses her latest novel, zines, and musical reverberation

“Just Keep Going North”

by Harper’s Magazine, on July 3, 2019

Theories on the frontier: the process, politics, and ethics that arise while covering the U.S.-Mexico border

Stonewall at Fifty

by Harper’s Magazine, on June 26, 2019

Three writers and activists consider the meanings of Pride

Is Poverty Necessary?

by Harper’s Magazine, on June 5, 2019

Who generates value in the modern economy, and who should benefit?

The Abortion Bans

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Rachel Nolan, Madeleine Schwartz, Brigitte Amiri on May 23, 2019

A discussion about the recent spate of legislation that seems to threaten a woman’s right to choose

Downstream

by Harper’s Magazine, on May 15, 2019

Rag-and-bone: the resale of items trashed in the United States and shipped to Haiti says a lot about history, politics, and drugs

Humanitarian Wars?

by Harper’s Magazine, on May 7, 2019

Olive branch as a club: a former president of Doctors Without Borders outlines how the justifications for war have evolved

The Truce

by Harper’s Magazine, on May 1, 2019

Bad neighbor policy: Did the United States’ influence over El Salvador countermand a solution to gang violence?

Lost at Sea

by Harper’s Magazine, on April 23, 2019

Time and tide: among the residents of abandoned boats just outside Sausalito

The Storyteller

by Harper’s Magazine, on April 15, 2019

Pierre Jarawan explores the evolution of identity and home in his debut novel

Destined for Export

by Harper’s Magazine, on April 8, 2019

Family history: the phenomenon of widespread, wrongful international adoption in Guatemala, and its long shadow

Like This or Die

by Harper’s Magazine, on March 25, 2019

What gets lost in the age of the algorithm

Not Mere Projection

by Harper’s Magazine, on March 18, 2019

Reconsidering the work of the notoriously elusive Cy Twombly

Emily Bernard and Mychal Denzel Smith

by Harper’s Magazine, on March 11, 2019

How to get there from here: two authors discuss their recent work and breaking out of the limits on the public discourse around race

Catechism of the Waters

by Harper’s Magazine, on March 4, 2019

No easy way out: the overpopulation of sea lions in Oregon demonstrates the need for humanity to live sustainably

The Myth of White Genocide in South Africa

by Harper’s Magazine, on February 25, 2019

An ongoing racial and economic crisis in a republic that reflects our own

Going to Extremes

by Harper’s Magazine, on February 7, 2019

In sickness, only: on mercy killings, and the crisis in our health care system

Without a Trace

by Harper’s Magazine, on January 17, 2019

The story of one man’s search for his brother speaks to the pain of hundreds of thousands of missing migrants’ families

Machine Politics

by Harper’s Magazine, on January 10, 2019

Rather than creating a more equal society, the internet has given rise to a new age of authoritarianism

The Gatekeepers

by Harper’s Magazine, on December 20, 2018

Unknown knowns: the limits of racial discourse in a system almost exclusively controlled by white people

John Cleese and Iain McGilchrist

by Harper’s Magazine, on December 13, 2018

Two-brain solution: two nights of insightful conversation with the esteemed comedian and the internationally renowned psychiatrist

How to Save the Internet

by Harper’s Magazine, on November 29, 2018

There’s no Command+S shortcut for ethically preserving the web

Checkpoint Nation

by Harper’s Magazine, on November 15, 2018

Not satisfied with toeing the line, US Customs and Border Protection agents are expanding their reach into the country’s interior

The Tragedy of Ted Cruz

by Harper’s Magazine, on November 8, 2018

Is any victory great enough for the man we all love to hate?

The Progressive Case for States’ Rights

by Harper’s Magazine, on October 25, 2018

Can’t live with ’em? Maybe we can live without ’em

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