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Article — From the April 1936 issue
The story of Black Mountain College
By Louis Adamic
Article — From the October 1932 issue
An immigrant revisits his native land
By Louis Adamic
Article — From the January 1932 issue
Is the A.F. of L. on its deathbed?
By Louis Adamic
Article — From the October 1931 issue
An immigrant of 1913 looks at America in 1931
By Louis Adamic
Article — From the January 1931 issue
First-hand testimony from an ex-workingman
By Louis Adamic
Lucas Mann on hope and change in a minor-league-baseball city

Amount of cash CNN reporter Peter Arnett says he wore sewn into his clothes while covering the Gulf War:

Babies prefer to look at attractive people.

A woman testified that prostitutes at the “bunga bunga” parties thrown by former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi had dressed up as President Obama.
“This is the heart of the magic factory, the place where medicine is infused with the miracles of science, and I’ve come to see how it’s done.”
© 2012 Harper’s Magazine. Logo photograph (detail) by Nadia Shira Cohen.

