The Pope says climate change is man made, Al Qaeda claims responsibility for Charlie Hebdo attack, and a town in Denmark agrees to have more sex
Read MoreChristopher Ketcham investigates Cliven Bundy’s years-long battle with the BLM, Michael Ames examines the economics of incarceration, Annie Murphy reflects on Bolivia’s lost coast, and more
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“I don’t see how you can properly cover a news story without showing the reader or viewer one of the key elements that made the story a story ”
Read MoreBoko Haram raids 16 villages in Nigeria, a bomb is detonated outside an NAACP office in Colorado, and a Muslim cleric bans snowmen.
Read MoreWe defend Charlie Hebdo’s right to publish its cartoons—and our right to critique them.
Read MorePalestine is denied statehood, the NYPD stops worry about minor criminal offenses, and a farmer slaughters half of his herd of Nazi-bred cows
Read MoreThe United States ends the war in Afghanistan, Putin cancels Christmas for Russian ministers, and a woman in Japan is indicted on charges of obscenity for building a kayak that looks like her vagina
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“One learns about the characters the way a machine would, by analyzing discrete moments of their lives, like a search engine combing for patterns.”
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North Korea attacks the U.S. film industry, Pakistan reinstates the death penalty, and a Pennsylvania electrician stabs a Virgin Mary lawn ornament in the head
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"The massive prose work does possess a certain irony and subtlety, as well as a sickening urgency, which make it worth reading as a book, rather than as an accumulation of outrageous facts."
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The Senate Intelligence Committee reports on CIA torture, Greenpeace defaces the Nazca Lines, and Putin's tiger is filmed killing a dog
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Jen Percy examines women's rights in liberated Afghanistan, Sam Frank hangs out with Silicon Valley's apocalyptic libertarians, Emily Witt analyzes Pinochet's legacy in Chile, and more
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Americans protest police brutality, 188 Muslim Brotherhood supporters are sentenced to death in Egypt, and 14 people are arrested for using the Domino's pizza-ordering app to test stolen credit card numbers.
Read More“Our common cause is to protect the integrity and freedom of thought,” said Harper’s publisher John MacArthur.
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A grand jury in St. Louis decides not to indict Darren Wilson, German scientists grow spinal cords in petri dishes, and London police stab a Staffordshire terrier to death.
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Obama reveals his plan for immigration reform, the Keystone XL pipeline fails in the Senate, and Afghanistan's first amusement park thrives
“Nowhere did the Times define 'the left' or what might excite its opposition to Clinton. Our imaginations are allowed to run wild: Is ‘the left’ a terrorist organization? A part of the outfield? Or is it just not worth mentioning?”
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World leaders plan to boost GDP, the E.S.A. lands on a comet, and an artist looks for a needle in a haystack
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Sarah Topol follows the trade routes used by arms smugglers, Eric Foner explores the hidden history of the Underground Railroad, Karl Ove Knausgaard recounts a humiliating episode from grade school, and more
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Republicans win the Senate, President Obama doubles the number of troops in Iraq, and Ted Cruz calls Net Neutrality "Obamacare for the Internet"
Read MoreSuicide bomber Abu Sumayyah, who killed himself and eight others in Iraq, gave his final print interview to Harper's
Read MoreOnly such a spectrum of perspectives could really do justice to the complexities and to the fact that Israel is totally un-understandable.
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U.S. congressional candidates woo voters, Sweden recognizes Palestine, and the Pope says God is not a magician
Read More“I became curious about how a person might react to the kind of hardships that exist in the wild. It became one of the preoccupations of the book.”
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Ebola arrives in New York, a high school student opens fire on classmates in Washington, and protestors in Hong Kong worry that Kenny G is an agent of the Chinese government
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“Since World War II, very little that could be called genuinely humanitarian has resulted from American military intervention—not in Korea, certainly not in Vietnam, and not in Panama, Afghanistan, or the two Iraq wars and Libya.”
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