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Weekly Review — October 7, 2008, 12:00 am

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An American cattleman. The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives passed the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. The legislation, which originated as a three-page proposal by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and grew to 451 pages after House and Senate negotiations, established the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to grant the Secretary of the Treasury up to $700 billion to buy troubled assets owned by financial institutions, to allow the Treasury to limit executive compensation and “golden parachutes” at those institutions, and to establish an oversight board to monitor the Treasury. The act also provides wooden arrow manufacturers an exemption …

Weekly Review — November 28, 2006, 12:00 am

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By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi

“Into the palace parlor they stepped; her hand in his paw the old bruin kept,” 1875 Two hundred fifteen people were killed in a massive bombing and mortar attack on a Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad, marking Iraq’s largest single-day death toll since the U.S. invasion. The killings prompted Shiite militiamen to seize and burn alive as many as twenty-four Sunnis; other Shiite residents of the capital stoned Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. “It’s all your fault!” one man shouted.AP via MSNBCReutersElsewhere in Baghdad, insurgents set fire to a U.S. base, APand the host of a popular satirical Iraqitelevision show was found …

Notebook — From the January 1999 issue

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By Lewis H. Lapham

Readings — From the June 1997 issue

Newt’s latest victory

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By Newt Gingrich

Readings — From the September 1996 issue

Burned by Newt?

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By Dale Washam

Readings — From the December 1995 issue

Party unity, Newt’s way

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By Ralph Hellman

Notebook — From the September 1995 issue

Elfland

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By Lewis H. Lapham

Article — From the March 1995 issue

A revolution, or business as usual?

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By Paul Tough (Editor), David Frum, , Frank I. Luntz, , James P. Pinkerton, Ralph Reed

Article — From the March 1995 issue

Reactionary chic

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How the nineties right recycles the bombast of the sixties left

By Lewis H. Lapham

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

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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.”

Illustration by Ernst Kreidolf

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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