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Destroyer of Worlds

By Elaine Scarry, Eric Schlosser, Lydia Millet, Mohammed Hanif, Rachel Bronson, Theodore Postol,

In February 1947, Harper’s Magazine published Henry L. Stimson’s “The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb.” As secretary of war, Stimson had served as the chief military adviser to President…

Tucson, Arizona

By Francisco Cantú,

Every weekday at the federal courthouse in Tucson, Arizona, undocumented migrants are gathered in a courtroom and made to face the judge’s pulpit like shackled parishioners. Most of them are…

Loaded questions

By Harper’s Staff,

Torch Song

By Charles Bowden,

I can’t tell much from her silhouette. She’s sitting off to one side, her shoulders hunched, and toward the front is the box with the teddy bears. Or at least…

Seeking refuge in a desert. The Sanctuary movement

By David Quammen,

Want not

By Robert Powers,

Isabell the inscrutable

By Charles G. Finney,

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