Harper’s Magazine

If you’re a young couple looking for a love marriage in India, you could turn to the Love Commandos to perform your marriage ceremony and register your union with the government to make it legal. Beware that in addition to paying an expensive fee, you’ll be expected to clean, cook, run errands, and walk the bomb-sniffing dog at the Love Commando safe house.

“Roads symbolize one of the fundamental contracts between a government and its citizens,” Dale Maharidge reports in Harper’s Magazine, with support from the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. “If the roads are failing, it means government is failing.”

How the U.S. Olympic Committee inadequately addresses sexual abuse in youth athletics, and what that tells us about how institutions enable predators.

Here’s what has happened as Arizona continues to reduce funding for public education. Here’s what will happen if other states follow suit.

53 percent of white women voted for Trump, Lara Lokteff reminds her audience. “And, I guess, to be really edgy, it was women that got Hitler elected.” Lokteff, the “queen bee” of the alt-right, is on a mission to remind these women that they are first and foremost, white. “When women get involved,” she declares, “a movement becomes a serious threat.”

“But equal space and equal security should not be considered rewards for virtue; they are rights in and of themselves, unrealized in innumerable ways as yet.”

“Their grandmother is as black as the ace of spades, as the British used to say; their mother is what the French still call café au lait. They themselves are sort of yellowy. When exactly does black suffering cease to be their concern?”

After officially welcoming Syrian refugees into Germany, a growing Nationalist movement has formed to limit immigration there, and opposing factions are struggling to determine who Germans are and who they can be.

“Why should it be so fulfilling to see the detritus of everyday life made small?” Alice Gregory explores the world of miniatures.

Kiera Feldman reports from South Dakota, one of the most restrictive states in the country when it comes to ending a pregnancy.