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In central Gaza, Israeli forces killed at least 40 Palestinians at a U.N. school using U.S.-made munitions, and reportedly later hid inside an aid truck and posed as displaced Palestinians to enter the...
View ArticleAmerican Disease
A version of this column originally ran in Le Devoir on May 6, 2024. Translated from the French by Elettra Pauletto. In the 1950s, my father worked as a photographer in New York City, where he...
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The Israeli military announced there would be a daily pause in the fighting in Gaza to deliver aid to Gazans, a move that is reportedly “unacceptable” to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was...
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In Muwasi, a rural area north of Rafah, the Israeli military shelled a tent camp designated for refugees, killing 25 and injuring twice as many.1 Israeli officials claimed they could pull off a...
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Septuagenarian Donald Trump and octogenarian Joe Biden faced off in the first debate of the 2024 presidential election, whose questions the independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. contemporaneously...
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Officials said that Hamas dropped a key demand in ongoing ceasefire talks, that Israel commit up front to definitively ending the war, while Israel introduced a list of new reservations expected to...
View ArticleRachel Cusk and Ben Lerner: Live in Conversation
In June, Rachel Cusk and Ben Lerner joined Harper’s Magazine editor Christopher Carroll for a conversation and Q&A in front of a live audience at the NYU Skirball Center in downtown Manhattan....
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Former president Donald Trump was injured in what appeared to be a botched assassination attempt during his campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania; as shots fired in his direction, Trump clutched his...
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After weeks of pressure, the incumbent president, Joe Biden, stepped down as the Democratic nominee and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as his replacement.1 2 “Is the platform that Kamala has...
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Lewis H. Lapham (1935–2024)
Lewis H. Lapham at work in the offices of Harper’s Magazine. Photograph by Matthew Septimus We at Harper’s Magazine mourn the loss of our editor emeritus, Lewis H. Lapham (1935–2024), who died on July...
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“We’re clearly at a very dangerous juncture in an already dangerous ever-escalating situation—probably the most dangerous—for the whole of this region,” said a British correspondent after 12 children...
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The Iranian government announced that it would exact “severe” retaliation against Israel for the assassination of a senior commander of Hezbollah in Beirut, which was carried out hours before Iranian...
View ArticleSlogans and Lies
A version of this column originally ran in Le Devoir on June 3, 2024. Translated from the French by Elettra Pauletto. For some time now, I’ve been searching for the right moment to correct the...
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Ukrainian troops advanced more than 18 miles into Russian territory during a surprise incursion in the most significant cross-border offensive since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the United States...
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At least 100 masked Israeli settlers entered the village of Jit in the West Bank, where they burned homes, threw Molotov cocktails at cars, and shot at Palestinians, killing one man and critically...
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Israel and Hezbollah dealt their heaviest strikes across the Israel-Lebanon border since the beginning of the war in Gaza.1 “This is not the end of the story,” said Prime Minister Netanyahu before both...
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After six hostages were found dead in southern Gaza, hundreds of thousands of Israelis took to the streets demanding a ceasefire deal, and the country’s largest union called a general strike,...
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The Offstage Convention
Democratic National Convention, Chicago, August 22, 2024 © Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty As a demonstration that politics have been refashioned as show business, the Democratic National Convention was beyond...
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In Winder, Georgia, two students and two teachers were murdered by a 14-year-old student using an AR-style rifle that his father reportedly bought him for Christmas.1 2 “Today is not the day for...
View ArticleThe Emasculation of Donald Trump
A version of this column originally ran in Le Devoir on July 2, 2024. Translated from the French by Elettra Pauletto. It may seem paradoxical that a porn star could arouse optimism amid an election...
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