Harper's Finest

When that bully Cavanaugh rises in the middle of the opening prayer like a self-righteous Sadducee, shouldered round by all his fawning scribes and elders, to silence Reverend Wesley Edwards…

The Murder of Leo Tolstoy

by Elif Batuman,

A forensic investigation

Disaster Aversion

by Rivka Galchen,

The quest to control hurricanes

The Master of Spin Boldak

by Matthieu Aikins,

Undercover with Afghanistan’s drug-trafficking border police

My Pain Is Worse Than Your Pain

by T. C. Boyle,

I like my wife fine and we had a pretty smooth run of it over the years but there was a sort of — oh, what do I want to say…

Tea Party in the Sonora

by Ken Silverstein,

For the future of G.O.P. governance, look to Arizona

Happiness Is a Worn Gun

by Dan Baum,

My concealed weapon and me

Straight Man’s Burden

by Jeff Sharlet,

The American roots of Uganda’s anti-gay persecutions

Tiny Little Laws

by Kathy Dobie,

A plague of sexual violence in Indian country

The Accidental Universe

by Alan Lightman,

Science’s crisis of faith

Harper’s Finest

From the Archive

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Moby-Duck

The Ecstasy of Influence

Manufacturing Depression

Detroit Arcadia

Staying Awake

Mississippi Drift

Contagious Cancer

Faustian Economics

Bleak Houses

Mandela’s Smile

White-Bread Jesus