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General Interest

Send in the Clouds

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Weekly Review

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All charges against a group of anti–Immigration and Customs Enforcement protestors were dropped as the top federal prosecutor of Chicago discovered evidence of ICE misconduct during the grand jury process; a Florida biologist was awarded a $485,000 settlement after being fired for reposting a meme criticizing Charlie Kirk’s stance on gun control after his death; and a Florida man who discovered $30,000 in the bathroom of a Wawa returned the money. Read More
Awards

Harper’s Magazine Wins 2026 National Magazine Award for Feature Writing

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“The Goon Squad,” by Daniel Kolitz, is cited by judges for “original, stylish magazine storytelling.” Read More
Weekly Review

Weekly Review

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In Norway, a fourteen-year-old boy, in his third bus theft in seven months, stole and drove a bus from Oslo to Kristiansand; in Atlanta, more than a dozen Waymo SUVs turned onto the same dead-end street; and in California, a dancing humanoid robot named Bebop delayed a flight from Oakland to San Diego after the size of its lithium battery was found to exceed airline regulations. Read More
General Interest

Jolly Jingoism

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Nat Segnit on theme-park propaganda, the international appetite for jingoism, and a hypothetical Winston Churchill musical Read More
Weekly Review

Weekly Review

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A local council in Hachirogata, Japan, initiated a no-confidence vote against its mayor, who has been unconscious since February; the mayor of Cohutta, Georgia, fired the town’s entire police force after officers criticized his wife; and it was reported that the U.S. defense secretary has started bringing his wife to meetings at the Pentagon. Read More
Weekly Review

Weekly Review

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Oil spills from the Iran War can be seen from space, with one spill spanning more than five miles across the Persian Gulf; the U.S. president said Iran has “not yet paid a big enough price” during his review of a new peace proposal from the country; it was reported that the price of eggs has more than doubled in Iran; and the price of gas in the United States has increased by 44 percent since the start of the conflict. Read More
General Interest

Epiphany Narrative

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Kristin Dombek on her hiatus, hyperobjects, and uncanny repetition Read More
Weekly Review

Weekly Review

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In Paris, police officers probed possible weather-monitor device tampering after an “unusual” temperature spike coincided with a trader’s cashing in on a Polymarket bet related to the city’s temperature; the gambling platform Kalshi issued fines and suspended three U.S. political candidates from the platform for betting on their own campaigns; and a U.S. special operations soldier was charged with using classified intel to win more than $400,000 on Polymarket bets related to the capture of Venezuela’s president. Read More
Weekly Review

Weekly Review

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In Los Angeles, California, three people were convicted of insurance fraud after one of them dressed up in a bear costume, broke into their vehicles, and blamed a bear for the damage; a woman sued the town of Surfside Beach, South Carolina, for sending her a cease-and-desist letter warning that she would be arrested if she continued recording interactions between residents and local geese; and it was reported that the band Geese is an industry plant. Read More
Publisher’s Note

The Twisted Rhetoric of Mark Carney

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His shortsighted analysis of the war in Iran was followed by a blatant lie. Read More
Weekly Review

Weekly Review

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The U.S. president and the rapper Vanilla Ice sat together at a UFC fight in Miami while the vice president announced that the U.S. and Iran had not succeeded at reaching a peace deal; The Trump Administration announced plans to build an arch resembling France’s Arc de Triomphe; and an artificial intelligence company met with Catholic and Protestant leaders for spiritual advice in making its chatbot, Claude, a “child of god.” Read More
General Interest

Muddy Waters

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Gaby Del Valle on reporting from conservative events, the young New Right, and Theodore Roosevelt’s legacy Read More
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An official investigator of a recent plane crash at LaGuardia International Airport in New York City was stuck in a security line for three hours at a Houston airport en route to the site; airport food vendors worked with the City of Philadelphia Department of Aviation on the longest-ever line of cheesesteaks; a Secret Service agent assigned to protect the former First Lady Jill Biden accidentally shot himself in the leg at the Philadelphia International Airport; and House Republicans rejected a Senate bill that would have extended funding for the Transit Security Administration, among other divisions of the Department of Homeland Security. Read More
General Interest

Intimate Difference

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Christine Smallwood on being the younger child, the loneliness of contemporary fiction, and feminist psychoanalysis Read More
Weekly Review

Weekly Review

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It was reported that a newly instated top official at FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery claimed that he once teleported 50 miles to a Waffle House in Rome, Georgia. In Rome, Italy, the remains of an anarchist couple were found underneath the debris of a cottage after they blew themselves up while making a bomb. Read More
Weekly Review

Weekly Review

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A woman collapsed at a Trump rally in Kentucky, prompting the president to request “Ave Maria” to be played as Doctor Oz tended to the woman. “It will take me one year to recover. And that is an understatement,” said the singer Morissey after canceling his concert in Spain owing to sleep deprivation caused by the noise from a traditional Spanish festival taking place near his hotel. Read More
General Interest

Tokyo Adrift

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Joshua Hunt on Ukrainian sumo, the Japanese far right, and the changing face of the country Read More
Weekly Review

Weekly Review

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A source close to the American president’s national security team said “they still don’t know what the goals are” in Iran; a Montana congressman broke the arm of an antiwar protester; and the betting app Polymarket removed a wager of whether a nuclear weapon will be detonated this year. Read More
General Interest

Agents of Chaos

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Sam Kriss on AI’s false starts, doomsday scenarios, and eccentric proponents Read More
Weekly Review

Weekly Review

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It was reported that the U.S. military used Anthropic’s AI tool, Claude, in its strikes on Iran after the ban on the company had taken effect; and Claude overtook ChatGPT, OpenAI’s product, as the bestselling chatbot on Apple’s App Store. Read More
Weekly Review

Weekly Review

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The U.S. president and top cabinet officials convened in the White House Situation Room to discuss striking Iran in the event of failed diplomacy talks in Geneva; and soldiers on the USS Gerald R. Ford whose deployments have been extended owing to potential military operations in the Middle East have complained of clogged toilets. Read More
Weekly Review

Weekly Review

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While in Munich, the prime minister of Spain gave the governor of the city a copy of Don Quixote, a seventeenth-century Spanish novel about a self-proclaimed knight’s fool’s errand. Read More
General Interest

Juvenile Impulse

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Nell Freudenberger on campus novels, writing as prophecy, and coming of age in the Clinton era Read More
Publisher’s Note

The Worst Years of Our Life

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Where will the rise of Trump and Minneapolis martyrs take us? Read More
Weekly Review

Weekly Review

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The figure skater Ilia Malinin landed the first legal one-legged backflip in a competition since 1976. Read More
General Interest

Unreal City

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Hari Kunzru on psychogeography, the politics of trespass, and the hidden tombs of New York Read More
Weekly Review

Weekly Review

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Hundreds of protesters gathered in Milan to demand that the ICE agents sent to support security operations at the Winter Olympics leave the country; and Italy’s foreign minister claimed that the incoming agents were different from those on the ground in Minneapolis, telling reporters at a Holocaust memorial event, “It’s not as if the SS are arriving.” Read More
Weekly Review

Weekly Review

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Ice and snow storms led to widespread disruptions across the United States, causing power outages, school closures, the cancellation of thousands of flights, and multiple deaths; the Federal Emergency Management Agency instructed staff not to use the word “ice” in public communications, citing concerns about memes mocking immigration officers. Read More
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