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While You Were Sleeping

From a debate in February in the Utah State Legislature about House Bill 74, which specifies that consent for sexual contact cannot be given in circumstances in which a person…

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Making Amends

By John Edgar Wideman. Wideman is a contributing editor of Harper’s Magazine.

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Friends Like These

From emails about an antigay protest organized by the Westboro Baptist Church in 2002. The emails were included in the FBI’s file on Fred Phelps, who founded the church in…

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Loitering With Intent

By William M. Arkin, from Unmanned: Drones, Data, and the Illusion of Perfect Warfare, out next month from Little, Brown. Arkin is a former army intelligence analyst and the author…

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What a Piece of Work

Mark Greif’s intellectual excavations

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Shhh! Socialism

Karl Taro Greenfeld and the novel of inequality

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New Television

With the arrival of Tina Fey and Robert Carlock’s Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Netflix), we finally have a major sitcom heroine whom we definitely don’t want to dress like. Kimmy Schmidt…

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New Books

You never step in the same river twice, but a rival you step on constantly. “Everything flows” — including anger and resentment. According to Socrates, according to Plato, the original…

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Interesting Facts

Interesting fact: Toucan cereal bedspread to my plunge and deliver. It’s okay if you can’t make sense of that. I’ve tried and tried, but I can’t grasp it either. The…

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Harper’s Index

Percentage change in the rate of global carbon emissions in 2014 : 0 Number of previous years on record in which the global economy grew and the carbon-emission rate did not : 0 Percentage…

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Thirty Million Gallons Under the Sea

Following the trail of BP’s oil in the Gulf of Mexico

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Surviving a Failed Pregnancy

The medical ordeal no one wants to talk about

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Letters

A Tale of Two Citis Despite several requests from Citi’s public-affairs department, Andrew Cockburn and the editors of Harper’s refused to discuss Mr. Cockburn’s article [“Saving the Whale, Again,” Letter…

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A Polite Coup

Why one of Asia’s most open societies keeps turning to military rule

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Findings

Older U.S. kindergartners do better than their peers when they reach elementary and middle school but are more likely to drop out of high school and become felons. Approximately 3.6…

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What Went Wrong

Assessing Obama’s legacy

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Shooting Down Man the Hunter

Sooner or later in conversations about who we are, who we have been, and who we can be, someone will tell a story about Man the Hunter. It’s a story…

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Legends of the Lost

The discreet charm of movies we cannot see

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Tommy, Beauty, and Baby

Tommy, Beauty, and Baby had set up a harmonious household when a pet store offered an irresistible bargain in the form of an additional pair of young marmosets that nobody…

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