Hard Bargain
How Amazon turned a generation against labor.
Harper's
History as End
1619, 1776, and the politics of the past
Prayer for a Just War
Finding meaning in the climate fight.
The Anxiety of Influencers
Sign of the Times
Caliphate and the perils of reporting online.
The Crow Whisperer
What happens when we talk to animals?
Playing the Flute
On oil spills in Colombia.
In Praise of Idleness
An argument for working less.
These Precious Days
The author’s chance encounter with Tom Hanks leads to a dear and lasting friendship with his assistant.
How to Rig an Election
The perils of voting in the modern age.
The Well-Tempered Synthesizer
Wendy Carlos’s music of the spheres.
The Sanctuary
In Minneapolis, a group of activists take over a Sheraton and open it to the homeless, banning police.
A Litany for Survival
Giving birth as a black woman in America.
To Catch a Terrorist
How the FBI manufactures phony crimes to arrest so-called terrorists.
In Plain Sight
The search for Syrian war criminals in Europe.
We Shall Not Be Moved
Collective ownership gives power back to poor farmers.
Detroit Arcadia
Wanders through the emptied post-American landscape.
Waiting for the End of the World
Apocalypse camp at the dawn of the Great Extinction.
“My Gang Is Jesus”
Rio de Janeiro drug gangs are embracing evangelical Christianity.
Oceans Apart
An archipelago off the African coast and its migration crisis.
Click Here to Kill
The dark world of online murder markets.
Body Language
How to tell a genderqueer story.
The Call of the Drums
A journey to explore the rising authoritarianism in Hungary and its weirdest fringe: the people who believe they’ve descended from Attila the Hun.
Is Poverty Necessary?
Ideas on labor and capital have remained fixed while the means of production grow ever more alienating.
Lost at Sea
A few miles north of San Francisco, off the coast of Sausalito, is Richardson Bay, a saltwater estuary where roughly one hundred people live out of sight from the world. Known as anchor-outs, they make their homes a quarter mile from the shore, on abandoned and unseaworthy vessels, doing their best, with little or no money, to survive.
