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Journalistic ethics

The Letter and Its Discontents

On July 7, we published on our website an open letter signed by more than one hundred and fifty prominent writers, artists, and scholars. “The free exchange of information and…

On Justice and Open Debate

by Harper’s Magazine,

Reality Check

by Christopher Beha,

On the morning of May 26, Donald Trump posted a pair of tweets about voting by mail. “There is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In Ballots will be anything less than…

Swat Team

by Thomas Frank,

The media’s extermination of Bernie Sanders, and real reform

The only game in town

by David (David J.) Sirota,

An unlikely comeback for dying newspapers

Rules of engagement

by Albert Camus,Translated by John Cullen,

Blagging rights

by Harper’s Staff,

The Naughts

by Roger D. Hodge,

This essay appears as the introduction to Submersion Journalism: Reporting in the Radical First Person from Harper’s Magazine, to be published this month by the New Press. Hodge is the…

The good news

by Harper’s Staff,

Immersion Journalism

by Matthew Power,

Panning for ratings gold in New Orleans

Be prepared

by Lewis H. Lapham,