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Weekly Review — August 26, 2008, 12:00 am

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Barack Obama announced Joe Biden, the senior senator from Delaware, as his running mate, even though Biden voted for the war in Iraq and for NAFTA and once said that Obama was “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.”Information WeekThe Washington PostThe Obama campaign denied that there was anything wrong with Biden’s signing a 2005 bill that eliminated many bankruptcy protections for consumers after Biden’s lobbyist son Hunter was retained for $100,000 a year by the financial-services giant MBNA, employees of which have donated $214,000 to Biden over the years.The New York …

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Changing of the guard

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Feeling betrayed in Iraq, part-time U.S. soldiers may mutiny at the polls

By Daniel Glick

Cartoon — From the June 1969 issue

“All those years not buying war toys–for what?”

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By Edward Koren (Cartoonist)

Article — From the June 1926 issue

The rude militia

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By Stuart Rose

Editor's drawer — From the March 1919 issue

His father’s home

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Has America the fighting spirit?

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By Elizabeth Miner King

Editor's drawer — From the February 1914 issue

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By Charles Frederick Peters (Cartoonist)

Article — From the January 1886 issue

The militia and the army

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By George Brinton McClellan

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Our national guard

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By Henry Martyn Boies

Editor's drawer — From the September 1864 issue

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June 2013

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Introducing the June Issue of Harper’s Magazine

Why the AR-15 rifle is here to stay,
the conspiracy theories of Room 237,
and more

By Ellen Rosenbush

[Perspective]

On Gun Control and Collective Rights

The firearm as emblem of personal sovereignty

By Dan Baum

“Let’s review our recent national paroxysm about guns, shall we?”

Illustration by Jeremy Traum

[Report]

How to Make Your Own AR-15

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By Dan Baum

“Even if federal gun-control advocates got everything they wanted, they couldn’t prevent America’s most popular rifle from being made, sold, and used. Understanding why this is true requires an examination of how the firearm is made.”

Illustration by Jeremy Traum

[Harper's Finest]

Gary Greenberg’s “Manufacturing Depression” (2007)

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Wherein the author enrolls in a clinical drug trial

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“This is the heart of the magic factory, the place where medicine is infused with the miracles of science.”

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Broken Heartland

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By Wil S. Hylton

“During the early 1990s, farmers throughout the Great Plains began to notice a decline in their wells. Irrigation systems from the Dakotas to Texas dipped, and, in some places, have been abandoned entirely.”

Illustration (detail) by Jeffery Smith