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Christopher Hooks on “Dubya’s Texas,” the White House UFC fight, and his plans for celebrating 250 years of America The post Mostly Doomed appeared first on Harper's Magazine.
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Christopher Hooks on “Dubya’s Texas,” the White House UFC fight, and his plans for celebrating 250 years of America The post Mostly Doomed appeared first on Harper's Magazine.
The president entered the UFC crowd to the AC/DC song “Thunderstruck”; members of the Iranian men’s soccer team disembarked in North America wearing pins to commemorate the 168 people killed by a U.S. military strike on an elementary school in southern Iran earlier this year; and “Right hand of God,” said a power forward of the New York Knicks after his teammate scored a basket that would take them to what would become the final game of the NBA championship. The post Weekly Review appeared first on Harper's Magazine.
Katie Thornton on cynicism, language learning, and Esperanto’s ban on slang The post Speak Easy appeared first on Harper's Magazine.
Last July, 139 people were killed as a result of flooding along several rivers in central Texas. The disaster was caused, we were told, by what the experts refer to as an MCV, or mesoscale convective vortex. To many observers, however, this explanation was far from sufficient. Wasn’t it much more likely, an odd coalition [] The post Send in the Clouds appeared first on Harper's Magazine.
“The Goon Squad,” by Daniel Kolitz, is cited by judges for “original, stylish magazine storytelling.” The post Harper’s Magazine Wins 2026 National Magazine Award for Feature Writing appeared first on Harper's Magazine.
Nat Segnit on theme-park propaganda, the international appetite for jingoism, and a hypothetical Winston Churchill musical The post Jolly Jingoism appeared first on Harper's Magazine.