Weekly Review

Published from 1857 to 1916, the original Harper's Weekly (“Journal of Civilization”) distinguished itself by criticizing New York's corrupt Tammany Hall (via the cartoons of Thomas Nast) and by publishing numerous lithographs that documented the progress of the Civil War. Revived briefly as a granola-scented broadsheet in the 1970s, the Weekly was more successfully relaunched in 2000 when editor Roger D. Hodge conceived of a Weekly Review—a digital newsletter that distills the world media's discharge into three simple paragraphs.

The new Harper's Weekly is emailed out each Tuesday morning, then archived here. As of 2004, each news item summarized by the Weekly Review is sourced, and as of 2005 each news item is linked to its source via a footnote. Prior to 2004, the date of each item is accurate to the week; afterwards, to the day.