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God Does Play Dice

From cards used in the board game Vatican: Unlock the Secrets of How Men Become Pope, created by Stephen Haliczer, a professor at Northern Illinois University. The game, which purports…

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Paper Pushkin

From two 1824 letters by Aleksandr Pushkin to Aleksandr Kaznacheev. The first is in response to an assignment to investigate the extermination of locusts that Pushkin refused to undertake; the…

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Teen Beat

From a February 2003 video recording of an interrogation by Canadian officials of Omar Khadr, a Canadian national accused of killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan and currently held at…

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Inhuman Resources

From the minutes of a Counter Resistance Strategy Meeting, held October 2, 2002, at Guantánamo Bay. The minutes, which paraphrase comments and questions from the meeting, were released June 17…

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Many People Have Done Worse

From a video recording of a July meeting in London between Stephen Payne and Yerzhan Dosmukhamedov. Payne is president of the lobbying firm Worldwide Strategic Partners. Dosmukhamedov, a.k.a. Eric Dos,…

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The Naughts

This essay appears as the introduction to Submersion Journalism: Reporting in the Radical First Person from Harper’s Magazine, to be published this month by the New Press. Hodge is the…

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Harper’s index

The fair price of a barrel of oil, according to Osama bin Laden in 1998: $144 Date on which oil reached $144 per barrel: 7/2/08 Rank of this year’s economic…

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Elegy for a Rubber Stamp

Fulfilling your duties, where does that land you? Into jealousy, upsets, persecution. Is that the way to get on? Butter people up, good God, butter them up, watch the great,…

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Letters

The Elephant in the Room Might I suggest that, in the future, you align the titles of your articles with their actual content? July’s cover story, “High Noon for the…

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The mandarins

American foreign policy, brought to you by China

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Looks good on paper

With welfare-to-work, presentation is everything

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The Wrecking Crew

How a gang of right-wing con men destroyed Washington and made a killing

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