
The Sicario: A Juárez Hit Man Speaks
The author travels to Mexico to meet a retired assassin and kidnapper, now himself a target of the cartels that once employed him.
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The author travels to Mexico to meet a retired assassin and kidnapper, now himself a target of the cartels that once employed him.
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A longtime Harper’s contributor considers America as he dies: “When I died, I died of many things: the failing systems; the weakening of age; the exhaustion of the long war against dying. Finally, I succumbed to the lack of ethics in a California hospital, killed by filth and neglect.”
Earl Shorris Harper's Dec 2011 Permalink
Undercover as a student at Phoenix University, the largest for-profit higher education company in the country and the second-largest enroller of students (behind the SUNY system), where only 12 percent of first-time students graduate and the ad budget accounts for 30 percent of overall spending.
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In 1992, a Chinese freighter tipped violently in a storm dumping a load of plastic floatee toys—7,200 red beavers, 7,200 green frogs, 7,200 blue turtles, and 7,200 yellow ducks—to the open sea. This is their story.
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The changing face of Appalachia.
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On the public schools of Detroit.
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Life as an Olympic-level archer.
Reeves Wiedeman Harper's Jul 2016 25min Permalink
It’s legal to buy poppy seeds in America and it’s legal to plant them—unless you’re familiar with the simple process of turning them into opium, that is. Then having poppies in your garden is a felony.
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A bus tour through Israel with a conservative radio host and 450 of his biggest fans.
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The hard luck stories of Trump fans in Florida, New Hampshire, and Iowa, including that of a man who legally changed his name to Donald Trump Jr.
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On the rise of Marine Le Pen, France’s right-wing presidential candidate.
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A trip to the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles.
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“A paean 2 Prince.”
Hilton Als Harper's Dec 2012 25min Permalink
Jay Miscovich spent his life wanting to hunt for treasure. In 2010, after just a few months of trying, he found half a billion dollars worth of emeralds at the bottom of the Atlantic. A few years later he killed himself.
Robert P. Baird Harper's Feb 2016 1h Permalink
Excerpted from Everyone Leaves Behind a Name, a collection of work by journalist Michael Brick, who died in February at the age of 41. Proceeds from the book go to Brick's wife and children.
Michael Brick Harper's May 2013 20min Permalink
A suburban teen attempts to build a reactor, radioactivity ensues.
Ken Silverstein Harper's Nov 1998 30min Permalink
Letters from a jailed French jihadi.
Scott Sayre Harper's Jan 2015 35min Permalink
A doctor who helped pioneer Oregon’s Death With Dignity law receives his own terminal diagnosis.
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On the stories we tell ourselves about happiness and the indecent questions we ask women who decided not to become moms.
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Picking up the pieces in Afghanistan.
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Matthew Power Harper's Mar 2005 35min Permalink
The writer’s relationship with two Moroccan prostitutes.
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