Harper's, the venerable monthly magazine, has been torn asunder over the formation of a union by staffers, New York's Gabriel Sherman reports. The em...
Christopher Ketcham | Posted 05.25.2011
My friend John Kennedy O'Hara, of Brooklyn, NY, has been called a "political street-fighter," a "mad dog," a "dissident." Among the incumbents who he...
Posted 05.25.2011
Columnist Thomas Frank is leaving the Wall Street Journal for Harper's Magazine. Frank, who has written for the Wall Street Journal since 2008, will ...
Harper's | Posted 05.25.2011
The U.S. government has long maintained that three Guantánamo prisoners -- Salah Al-Salami (37), from Yemen, and Mani Al-Utaybi (30) and Yasser Al-Za...
Mark Klempner | Posted 05.25.2011
It's not that I object to critical thinking. We need it. Yet, while we're reminding Obama of his promises and scrutinizing him on his decisions, we need to stand with him.
Larry Gellman | Posted 05.25.2011
They are whack jobs or hard-wired haters, but their influence and numbers are growing among what's left of the Republican party, the news media, and the former Confederacy.
Carter Phipps | Posted 05.25.2011
Everyone should read Thomas de Zengotita, not because he has the answers but because he's breaking new ground in tracking a whole field of disconcerting cultural trends.
Julia Cheiffetz | Posted 05.25.2011
During this moment of transition when budgets for long form journalism seem scarcer by the day, maybe looking to the classics or the public domain is one tiny way to keep our collective attention span in tact.
James Warren | Posted 05.25.2011
Geithner and Summers don't mention ancient Babylonia in addressing the financial crisis. But Chicago attorney Thomas Geoghegan sure does in Harper's "Infinite Debt."
James Warren | Posted 05.25.2011
Dahling, you must get the latest Vogue. The March issue of the longtime fashion arbiter gives us a radiant Michelle Obama on the cover and a reverent tale.
Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler | Posted 05.25.2011
In Michael Wolff's book, he serves lots of candy and cat food as he tells the story of Murdoch's rise from scion of a smallish Australian newspaper empire to master of the universe in today's media world.
Harpers | Posted 05.25.2011
Number of news stories from 1998 to Election Day 2000 containing "George W. Bush" and "aura of inevitability": 206 Amount for which Bush successful...
James Warren | Posted 05.25.2011
Michael Vick, a scummy pro football quarterback, has improbably inspired an uplifting New Year's odyssey, according to this week's Sports Illustrated.
James Warren | Posted 05.25.2011
One shouldn't even wonder why the Obama's didn't go through the motions of visiting a public school, Fareed Zakaria's article could be used as a job application, and Money's superior counsel.
James Warren | Posted 05.25.2011
Not all's lost for the Republicans: John McCain apparently took the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Algeria according to the Economist's Global Electoral College poll.
Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 05.25.2011
This election will show the public's choice, its mandate for the type of leader it wants to deal with complex issues, like why people use terrorism as a tactic to dialogue with those in power.
Evan Handler | Posted 05.25.2011
After the show began its off-Broadway run I was asked to okay a major excerpt appearing in the very prestigious Harpers Magazine. The only problem with this was the editor.
The Huffington Post | Jack Mirkinson | Posted 05.25.2011