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Rebecca Solnit, Katie Roiphe, Sallie Tisdale, and more

What should be done with the symbols of white supremacy? 

A visit to Hearst Castle

Caption: "Motherhood, 1938," a photograph by Boris Ignatovich, whose work is on view this week at Nailya Alexander Gallery, in New York City. Credit: © Boris Ignatovich. Courtesy Nailya Alexander Gallery, New York City

"Dying for a dollar an hour while fighting to keep someone's home from burning is entirely constitutional."

Growing up in a refugee settlement in western Uganda

Fenton Johnson, Andrew Cockburn, Mansi Choksi, Rebecca Solnit, Yasmine Seale, and more...

"Although McCain participated in a morally unpardonable war in which the United Sates killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people, one can’t help sympathizing with him in his reduced state." 

Doug Jones is elected to the Senate

Please join us Saturday, December 16th, at Bookstein Projects in Manhattan, for a conversation between Harper's Magazine's art director, Stacey Clarkson James, and the artist Olive Ayhens, whose solo exhibition Lettuce Lake is on view at the gallery until January 6, 2018.

A jury in Arizona heard closing arguments in the trial of a Mesa police officer charged with the murder of Daniel Shaver, a twenty-six-year-old traveling pest exterminator who was staying at a La Quinta Inn when he was shot and killed by a response team after guests in a hot tub outside his window mistook for a rifle the pellet gun he’d used to eradicate birds from a local Walmart and reported him to the hotel staff...

How the once jolly San Francisco festival lost its way

“Huisache Tree, Mexico,” a hand-colored photograph by Kate Breakey, whose work is on view through January 13 at Littlejohn Contemporary, in New York City

A day on Noah's Ark

Roy Moore, a 70-year-old lawyer and Republican candidate for the US Senate who once accidentally stabbed himself with a murder weapon while prosecuting a case in an Alabama courtroom, was accused of having sexually assaulted two women, Leigh Corfman and Beverly Young Nelson, while he was an assistant district attorney in his thirties and they were 14 and 16 years old, respectively. Moore denied knowing Nelson, and Nelson showed reporters a copy of her high-school yearbook, which Moore had purportedly signed. Read more...

"I knew that if I had a relationship or became really close to a girl, my family would lock me up."

NAFTA is an investment contract that protects American and Canadian goods and interests against Mexican expropriation, regulation, and pestering by local authorities.

Seeking adventure in the caves of Haiti. 

The afterlives of Lenin

The story behind Ray's Pizza