Harper's Magazine

O ne morning last November, I boarded a plane from Port Moresby, the capital of Papua New Guinea, to Buka, the capital of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville.

S omewhere, Freud remarks that he who is his mother's favorite will carry that victory with him to the end of his days.

The GOP's identity crisis by Lauren Oyler I n the seventh hour of my flight to the Republican National Convention, I received

“It can wait,” Louisiana Representative Mike Johnson said of reconvening Congress to approve additional disaster funding.

Lewis H. Lapham's correspondence with Henry Kissinger can be read here

A 10-month-old fire station in Stadtallendorf burned to the ground after flames in the building went undetected because no one had installed a fire alarm, and Wales-based grocer Iceland Foods appealed an EU court decision that ruled that its name infringed on the trademark rights of the government of Iceland.

Discussed in this essay: Warhol, by Blake Gopnik. Ecco. 976 pages. $45. One thing I miss is the time when America had big dreams about the future.

In Iowa, a North Liberty man was arrested for strangling a woman with the American flag.

In Michigan, it was reported that a man living in the woods of the Upper Peninsula captured video of himself being “knocked out cold” by what he claimed was a bigfoot.

Residents in Colorado Springs voted on one ballot initiative banning the sale of recreational marijuana and another allowing the sale of recreational marijuana. “Both,” said the city in a statement following the election, “have been approved.”