Journalism

Losing My Religion

By Kevin Baker,

In the Seventies, when I came of age politically, being a lefty was all about believing that “the people” would always save us, if they just knew the truth. We…

An Incoherent Truth

By Thomas Chatterton Williams,

Last fall, Tobi Haslett, a young writer and critic with Marxist leanings, noticed a shift in the contours of popular intellectual debate. “Something is happening out there in the dark…

Vicious Cycles

By Greg Jackson,

This is what I feared, that she would speak about the news . . . about how her father always said that the news exists so it can disappear, this is…

Don’t Speak

By Alice Su, on May 16, 2017

A Sudanese refugee on life in Darfur Read More

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By John Ritter,

Swat Team

By Thomas Frank,

All politicians love to complain about the press. They complain for good reasons and bad. They cry over frivolous slights and legitimate inquiries alike. They moan about bias. They talk…

Project Mayhem

By Emad Mekay,

Ken Silverstein’s The Secret World of Oil

By Hardy Calvert, on July 7, 2014

On the endemic corruption of the global oil industry Read More

In Praise of Michael Hastings

By John R. MacArthur, on June 19, 2014

The Last Magazine exposes the lies and obfuscations of the march to war in Iraq Read More

Now You Sisi

By Ahmed Ould Meiloud,

From a video of senior Egyptian army officers at a meeting held by General Abdul-Fattah el-Sisi, leaked last October by the Islamist website Rassd News Network; the meeting is thought…

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 agencies to pay more…

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