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Home of the Whopper

by Thomas Frank,

Let me tell you about this one stretch of Hillsborough Road in Durham, North Carolina. It’s between two freeways, just a short drive from the noble towers of Duke University,…

Publisher’s Letter

by John R. MacArthur,

When I began my tenure as publisher of Harper’s Magazine nearly thirty years ago, my biggest challenge — or so I thought at the time — was to get advertising…

Content and Its Discontents

by Laurent Beccaria, Patrick Saint-Exupéry,Translated by John Cullen,

By Laurent Beccaria and Patrick de Saint-Exupéry, from an essay included as an insert in the Winter 2013 issue of the French quarterly XXI. Beccaria is the publisher of the…

Unloaded Magazines

From a list of 891 periodicals removed in July from the U.S. Army & Air Force Exchange Service’s on-base stores. Magazine sales at military exchanges declined by 18.3 percent between…

Glaciers for Sale

by McKenzie Funk,

A global-warming get-rich-quick scheme

How to Make Your Own AR-15

by Dan Baum,

The gun Congress can’t ban

Kabubble

by Matthieu Aikins,

Counting down to economic collapse in the Afghan capital

Collateral Damage

From more than 8,000 letters to executives and directors of banks, posted last fall on the website Occupy the Boardroom and emailed to the addressees. A selection of 150 letters,…