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We Were the News Today

by Maram Humaid,

From journal entries by Maram Humaid, an AlJazeera.com journalist in Gaza, written during the first week of the Israel–Hamas war. OCTOBER 9 I’m the mother of two children, one of…

No News Is Bad News

by Isaac Bashevis Singer,

From “Journalism and Literature,” an essay that appears for the first time in English in the collection Old Truths and New Clichés, which will be published next month by Princeton…

Must Flee TV

by William M. Arkin,

From a resignation email sent to NBC News in January by William M. Arkin, a national security reporter who had worked at the network off and on since 1999. January 4…

Looking for Calley

by Seymour M. Hersh,

How a young journalist untangled the riddle of My Lai

Glasnost Half Full

From the transcript of a staff meeting at RBC, a media company based in Moscow, in July. An audio recording of the meeting was leaked to Meduza, a Russian-language news…

Broken English

by Thomas Frank,

The radio was tuned to NPR, the subject was austerity, and the great observers of our political moment were speaking with their customary authority. The conversation wandered to and fro,…

Le Misérable

Translated by Ryann Liebenthal,

From open letters by the actor Gérard Depardieu, addressed to French prime minister Jean-Marc Ayrault and to the Russian press. In January, Depardieu obtained Russian citizenship in order to evade…

The Unraveling of Bo Xilai

by Lauren Hilgers,

China loses a populist star

Blagging rights

by Harper’s Staff,

Fit to sprint

by Judith Matloff,

Untitled

Art by Steve Mumford,