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Writers

Jeff Sharlet

Crime

The Invisible Man

To date, more than 500 people have been killed by police in America. This is the story of one, Charly Keunang.

Jeff Sharlet GQ Jul 2015 35min Permalink

Politics World

Inside the Iron Closet: What It's Like to Be Gay in Putin's Russia

The coordinated government attack on queer Russia.

Jeff Sharlet GQ Feb 2014 30min Permalink

Arts Music

Voice and Hammer

He outsold Elvis, signed one of the first pay-for-play contracts and befriended Martin Luther King Jr. A profile of Harry Belafonte.

Jeff Sharlet The Virginia Quarterly Review Oct 2013 30min Permalink

Politics Religion

Ditto Boys

On Westmont College, a “feeder school” to the upper ranks of the Christian conservative movement.

Jeff Sharlet Killing the Buddha Sep 2013 25min Permalink

World Religion

Straight Man's Burden

A Ugandan bill that would threaten homosexuals with imprisonment, or in some cases death, has its roots in the shadowy American evangelical group known as The Family.

Jeff Sharlet Harper's Aug 2010 40min Permalink

Best Article Religion

Jesus killed Mohammed

How the U.S. Army went evangelical and turned a war into a crusade.

Jeff Sharlet Harper's May 2009 Permalink