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Social conditions

Life During Wartime

Remembering the siege of Sarajevo

The Fall and Rise of Occupy Wall Street

by Jeff Madrick,

A year and a half after the takeover of Zuccotti Park there exists a widespread conviction that Occupy Wall Street ultimately failed, and that it did so for lack of…

Bakken Business

by Richard Manning,

The price of North Dakota's fracking boom

This Land Is Not Your Land

by Ted Genoways,

Deciding who belongs in America

Caliph of the Tricksters

by Christopher de Bellaigue,

Cockfighting in the ruins of Kabul

Fulsome Prison

by Danny Hembree,

From a letter sent in January to the Gaston Gazette, a North Carolina newspaper, by Danny Hembree, a fifty-year-old death-row inmate at Raleigh’s Central Prison. Hembree was found guilty last…

In the Writers’ Room

by Robert Andrew Powell,

Spiraling downward at the Central Library

The People’s Assembly

by Sarah A. Topol,

How Egypt lost its parliament

The one in front of you

by Sallie Tisdale,

A consideration of charity

Great peep forward

by Harper’s Staff,

Eye of the Drone

From statements made in February by the families of victims and survivors of a March 17, 2011, drone attack in the village of Datta Khel in the Pakistani region of…