Soul City in North Carolina was designed to build Black wealth and address racial injustice. Then its opponents lined up.

The line between legal pharmaceuticals and illegal drugs has less to do with science than with race, class, and gender.

Two new books shed light on the different ways we view the business of existing.

Ho Chi Minh, Mao Zedong, and Mahatma Gandhi appear in this history of revolutionary struggles. But the main characters are lesser-known figures.

Has any other novelist lived a life so steeped in political intrigue?

How we came to rely on the courts, instead of the democratic process, for justice

A new book explores the impact tourism has had on our politics, our planet, and our selves.

Chloé Zhao’s film risks romanticizing a harsh life in the gig economy.

Rampant capitalism and a search for identity collide in “My Year Abroad.”

The Harper’s publisher’s latest column, about a controversy at The New York Times, goes out of its way to use an ugly racial slur.

I wanted to like “Renegades” on Spotify. What went wrong?

What an old poem says about the search for justice following the Capitol riot

The best of this season’s scary flicks resist the temptation to grandstand.

Two new movies emphasize the singer’s spirit of defiance and political courage.

The online encyclopedia reveals that there are at least 31,000 ways to talk about Covid-19.

Betsy Devos was no exception in education. She pushed an agenda that Republicans and Democrats have strangely united behind for years.

How big business and the far right joined to create a uniquely hostile climate for immigrants.

Grace Kelly, Joan Didion, and Sylvia Plath were all guests. For some women, it was a launch pad. For others, it was a trap.

A new anthology reveals the perils and rewards of philosophical fiction.

The essays in “Bland Fanatics” trace today’s crises to a long history of violent colonial oppression.