The Supreme Court considers skim-milk marriage, a Guantánamo Bay hunger strike expands, and Egyptian scuba divers sabotage SEA-ME-WE-4
Read More
Untitled, a mixed-media painting by Francis Alÿs, whose work was featured in April's Readings section. Alÿs is currently participating in the Sharjah Biennial, in Sharjah, UAE. Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner, New York City/London
Read More
In a slide projection entitled Cuts, Burns, Punctures, Ishmael Randall Weeks uses found slides from 1970s and ’80s Peru, which he alters to reflect on the violence of the country's multidecade struggle for democracy. Still courtesy the artist and Eleven Rivington, New York City.
Read More
Obama hoofs it to Israel, Cyprus barely skates by, and a Canadian suggests an unusual stimulus project
Read More
"Untitled #11," by Jonathan Smith, from his series Untold Stories. © The artist. Courtesy Rick Wester Fine Art, New York City
Read More
Tracing our coverage of the war, from Lewis H. Lapham to Andrew J. Bacevich
Read More
Vague talk about the middle class, and plenty for big business
Read More
The exhibition Susan Wides: All the Worlds, which includes photography that accompanied "Some Assembly Required" (Harper's Magazine, February 2012), opens tonight at Kim Foster Gallery.
Read More
Pope Francis among the people, rapist self-pity, and a slavery debate at CPAC
Read MoreA discussion with critics Ruth Franklin, Christine Smallwood, and Jennifer Szalai on Wednesday, March 20, at 6:30 p.m.
Read More
Rashid Khalidi on how the United States sustains the failure of the Israel–Palestine peace process
Read More
Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin Jr. on the rise of the Black Panther Party, revolution, and the glory of guns
Read More
On John le Carré and the relaunch of the Folio section
Read MoreThe trouble with the Congressional Budget Office’s long-term budget projections
Read More
Chávez cancer conspiracy theories, drone droning, and coitus leo interruptus
Read More
“I could trace the origin of this story for pages, back and back and back.”
Read More
Sequestration remonstration, shticklomacy in North Korea, and the menagerie of Nutzu the Pawnbroker
Read More
A short documentary about a town whose Autolite spark-plug plant moved most of its jobs to Mexico in the wake of NAFTA.
Read More
How underground comic books helped give rise to Archer
Read More
From the introduction to Newman’s magnum opus, In Partial Disgrace
“Tights, 1987–2011,” by Daido Moriyama, whose work appeared in the Readings section of the March issue. © the artist. Courtesy Michael Hoppen Contemporary, London
Read More
An adaptation of T. C. Boyle’s short story (Harper’s Magazine, January 2010)