by Ben Lerner
Lerner puts together a short story roughly based on some wild facts of his past: convincing prominent think tanks to use Wikipedia editing to alter online narratives.
502 days ago

by David Treuer
In this autobiographical piece, Treuer recounts his youth and the moment his family's house burned down. His mother, a Native American, his father, a Holocaust survivor, meant he was akinly aware of the struggles some people may face.
1262 days ago

by Jeremy Miller
Miller takes a job as a census worker, going from door to door on behalf of the US government. He talks about his responsibilities, co-workers, and the houses he visits, offering a unique view on a crucial element of our democracy.
1264 days ago

by John le Carre
In this excerpt from le Carré's last novel, we learn about Julian - a financial trader-turned bookseller who has his own shop in a small town. A peculiar man, Edward Avon, comes into his shop claiming to know his father and offering to start a joint venture with Julian, named the Republic of Literature.
1272 days ago

by Rachel Riederer
Riederer investigates the international tensions that come along with space exploration and limited resources. Militarization is frowned upon, but also seemingly inevitable in an area unclaimed by any yet shared by all. Better still, the rules that regulate space are outdated treaties that have a near infinite number of interpretations.
1273 days ago

by Will Bardenwerper
Bardenwerper packs his bags and brings his family down to the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina to report on the closure of baseball's Appalachian League. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was largely overlooked when replaced by a new league of top college athletes, but Bardenwerper warns that it's a serious departure in the tradition and community of America's great pastime.
1298 days ago

by Lisa Wells
Wells writes about a young company, Recompose, that makes its business in composting dead human bodies. The idea is unconventional, but clearly necessarily in an age of growing ecological concerns. It can provide either meaning or simply utility for those who think about what should be done with their corpse upon death.
1308 days ago

by Garret Keizer
Keizer contemplates the rise of "stupidity" in modern society. If we truly believe in a democratic system, it's something that we can't ignore. From anti-vaxxers, flat-eathers, QAnon supporters, stupidity seems to be an unfixable problem, but a crucial one for the state of our world.
1309 days ago

by Andrew Quilty
Before the removal of all American troops from Afghanistan, Quilty traveled to Wardak, a rural town in the country, to interview a family that had undergone an infamous "night raid." Multiple family members were killed and their house was left in ruins, even though they appeared to simply be civilians.
1332 days ago

by Aldous Huxley
Harper's reprinted this excerpt from Huxley's full essay, "Notes on Propaganda" published in this same magazine in 1936, on the cusp of the Second World War.
1337 days ago

by Hari Kunzru
Kunzru, a British citizen, was traveling the United States at the time of 9/11. He reflects on his experiences and memories of that time.
1337 days ago

by Joseph Bernstein
Bernstein posits a crucial theory on "disinformation": could it be a centrist reaction to the polarization of politics and an attempt to hold on to the power that is slipping away? He writes, "'Misinformation' and 'disinformation' are used casually and interchangeably to refer to an enormous range of content, ranging from well-worn scams to viral news aggregation; from foreign-intelligence operations to trolling; from opposition research to harassment. In their crudest use, the terms are simply jargon for 'things I disagree with.'"
1342 days ago

by Rebecca Panovka
Many quote Hannah Arendt whenever there is even a hint of abuse of governmental power and authority. And as many cited Trumo's presidency as the inevitable end of democracy, Panovka wants to set straight what Arendt actually defined as totalitarianism, and how the Trump administration relates to this larger concept.
1377 days ago

by Andreu Cockburn
Joe Manchin, a little knows Senator from West Virginia, has been trust into the nacional spotlight in recent months. He is a conservative membre of the Democratic Party that often votes against the party and it's policies in a Senate that is solitari right down the middle. Cockburn questions if he is the types of figure that the party needs going forwards.
1378 days ago

by Myriam J.A. Chancy
The narrator, a taxi cab driver originally from Haiti, reflects on his different types of passengers with different dogs. He then sees a dog thrown out of a red car while on the highway, which gets ran over twice before it dies.
1380 days ago

by Matt Karp
Karp looks at the growing social and racial justice discourse running through major publications and administrations today. He questions their tendencies towards "historicism," specifically looking at the 1619 Project by the New York Times and the 1776 Commission in the dying embers of the Trump Administration.
1383 days ago