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Karen Houppert

Karen Houppert is City Paper’s Editor. Her reporting has appeared in a wide variety of publications, including The Washington Post Magazine, Newsday, The Nation, Salon, Slate, Mother Jones, Ms, The Village Voice, Al Jazeera, The Baltimore Sun, Urbanite, Style, etc. A former staff writer for The Village Voice, she has won several awards, including a National Women's Political Caucus Award, a 2003 Newswomen's Club of New York Front Page Award, several Nation Investigative Fund grants and a Kaiser Family Foundation Media Fellowship. She is the author of three nonfiction books, The Curse (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999), Home Fires Burning (Ballantine, 2005), and Chasing Gideon: The Elusive Quest for Poor People’s Justice (The New Press, 2013). These days she is writing about the criminal justice system, race, poverty, education, politics—and their unholy mix here and in the nation at large. For more about her work, visit her website.

'War and Peace,' Interrupted

"How original," my sarcastic 12-year-old son Zack says, when I tell him that I'm writing about 9/11—and what it means for the kids who grew up

'War and Peace,' Interrupted





After Trump's win, a brief moment to mourn

Many months ago, after too many shots of vodka with friends, I made a foolish bet on the presidential election.

I placed my bet on

After Trump's win, a brief moment to mourn

Book Clubs Suspended

Something about “The Maximum Security Book Club,” which came out on June 7, is riling officials at the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional

Book Clubs Suspended


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