Zambia

Weekly Review — April 26, 2005, 12:00 am

Weekly Review

In Iraq, the bodies of fifty Shiite hostages, some mutilated or headless, were pulled from the Tigris river, and the bodies of nineteen Iraqi soldiers were found in a soccer stadium in the city of Haditha. A suicide bomber tried to assassinate Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi,Los Angeles Timesand Iraqi militants shot down a commercial helicopter, killing ten passengers; they then shot the sole survivor, the helicopter’s Bulgarian pilot, and distributed a video of the shooting on the Internet.ABC NewsIn Tehran, around 400 Iranians signed up to become suicide bombers. “As a Muslim, it is my duty,” said a mother …

Article — From the April 1986 issue

A study in red

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Zambia succumbs to its debts

By Ed Zuckerman

June 2013

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[Editor's Note]

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

By Harper’s Magazine

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

Illustration by Ernst Kreidolf

[Report]

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