Features Archives

Polar Light

by Barry Lopez,

Searching for the solar system’s origins at the end of the earth

Preservation Acts

by Nora Caplan-Bricker,

Toward an ethical archive of the web

The Vanishing

by Janine di Giovanni,

The plight of Christians in an age of intolerance

They Dance Cheek to Cheek

by Kenneth E. Hartman,

A contemplation of my parents’ marriage

The Gatekeepers

by Mychal Denzel Smith,

On the burden of the black public intellectual

Investigating Hate

by Kathy Dobie,

Inside New York City’s task force on bias

Two Years in Auschwitz

by Marco Lauer,

A personal history of the Holocaust

Rebirth of a Nation

by Jonathan Taplin,

Can states’ rights save us from a second civil war?

Blood Money

by Andrew Cockburn,

Taxpayers pick up the tab for police brutality

The Tragedy of Ted Cruz

by Ana Marie Cox,

Does likability still matter in politics?

Discovery, Interrupted

by Jeffrey Friedman,

How World War I delayed a treatment for diabetes and derailed one man’s chance at immortality

Checkpoint Nation

by Melissa del Bosque,

Border agents are expanding their reach into the country’s interior

Exile

by John Hockenberry,

And a year of trying to find a road back from personal and public shame

The Printed Word in Peril

by Will Self,

The age of Homo virtualis is upon us

Nothing but Gifts

by Edwin Dobb,

Finding a home in a world gone awry

Among Britain’s Anti-Semites

by Tanya Gold,

The Labour Party’s Moral Dilemma

The Deportation Racket

by Micah Hauser,

Con artists are preying on undocumented immigrants in detention

The Fountain Pen

by Lore Groszmann Segal,

From the journal I did not keep

Labor’s Last Stand

by Garret Keizer,

Unions must either demand a place at the table or be part of the meal

Range Wars

by Mort Rosenblum,Art by Samuel James,

A copper rush sparks last-ditch battles for Arizona’s soul

Wellness Cures

by Katie Booth,

Can hospitals learn to better treat Deaf patients?

A Template for Hate

by Rohini Mohan,

Polarized politics and mainstream intolerance

Combustion Engines

by Richard Manning,

On any given day last summer, the smoke-choked skies over Missoula, Montana, swarmed with an average of twenty-eight helicopters and eighteen fixed-wing craft, a blitz waged against Lolo Peak, Rice…

There Will Always Be Fires

by Scott Sayare,

The pinhal interior, a wooded region of hills and narrow hollows in rural central Portugal, used to be farmland. Well into the latter half of the past century, the fields…

As the World Burns

by Harper’s Magazine,

If it seems as though the world’s on fire, that’s because it is. Wildfires are starting earlier in the dry season and burning for longer. As of October 2017, European…