Harper’s InvestigationEnvironment, World Glaciers for Sale A global warming get-rich-quick scheme McKenzie FunkHarper'sJune 14, 2013 InvestigationBusiness, Labor The Pink Pyramid Scheme How Mary Kay cosmetics preys on desperate housewives with hollow promises of work/life balance and “executive level” salaries that almost never materialize. Virginia Sole-SmithHarper'sJuly 16, 2012 InvestigationBusiness A Home Owners’ Revolt Against the Banks MERS, the massive registry that tracks sales of mortgages, just may provide a loophole allowing homeowners to escape foreclosure. Christopher KetchamHarper'sJanuary 10, 2012 InvestigationJustice Tiny Little Laws A plague of sexual violence persists in Indian Country — while law enforcement turns a blind eye. Kathy DobieHarper'sJanuary 19, 2011 InvestigationJustice A Shtetl Divided In the 1990s, the NYPD often clashed with Brooklyn’s Hasidic community. Now the community’s own para-police forces, the Shmira and the Shomrim, are at war with each other. Matthew ShaerHarper'sDecember 13, 2010 InvestigationJustice, World Straight Man’s Burden It was a Ugandan member of parliament who introduced the bill that would penalize homosexuality with life imprisonment or death, but the idea traces back to a secretive American evangelical movement known as The Family. Jeff SharletHarper'sAugust 18, 2010 InvestigationWorld The Continuation of Poverty Jeffrey Sachs brought “shock therapy” to the economies of Russia and Poland. Now he’s set out to solve poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. Victoria SchlesingerHarper'sMay 1, 2010 InvestigationPolitics The Albany Handshake Experts have ranked New York’s state legislature among the nation’s most dysfunctional. But it’s a dysfunction that works quite well — for some. Christopher KetchamHarper'sApril 22, 2010 1 2
InvestigationEnvironment, World Glaciers for Sale A global warming get-rich-quick scheme McKenzie FunkHarper'sJune 14, 2013
InvestigationBusiness, Labor The Pink Pyramid Scheme How Mary Kay cosmetics preys on desperate housewives with hollow promises of work/life balance and “executive level” salaries that almost never materialize. Virginia Sole-SmithHarper'sJuly 16, 2012
InvestigationBusiness A Home Owners’ Revolt Against the Banks MERS, the massive registry that tracks sales of mortgages, just may provide a loophole allowing homeowners to escape foreclosure. Christopher KetchamHarper'sJanuary 10, 2012
InvestigationJustice Tiny Little Laws A plague of sexual violence persists in Indian Country — while law enforcement turns a blind eye. Kathy DobieHarper'sJanuary 19, 2011
InvestigationJustice A Shtetl Divided In the 1990s, the NYPD often clashed with Brooklyn’s Hasidic community. Now the community’s own para-police forces, the Shmira and the Shomrim, are at war with each other. Matthew ShaerHarper'sDecember 13, 2010
InvestigationJustice, World Straight Man’s Burden It was a Ugandan member of parliament who introduced the bill that would penalize homosexuality with life imprisonment or death, but the idea traces back to a secretive American evangelical movement known as The Family. Jeff SharletHarper'sAugust 18, 2010
InvestigationWorld The Continuation of Poverty Jeffrey Sachs brought “shock therapy” to the economies of Russia and Poland. Now he’s set out to solve poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. Victoria SchlesingerHarper'sMay 1, 2010
InvestigationPolitics The Albany Handshake Experts have ranked New York’s state legislature among the nation’s most dysfunctional. But it’s a dysfunction that works quite well — for some. Christopher KetchamHarper'sApril 22, 2010