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Weekly Review

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

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Heart of Empire

Clerical Oversight

The Jihadist leader no one wants to touch

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Editor's Note

Introducing the February Issue

Christopher 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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Publisher’s Note

America’s Peculiar Political Correctness

“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 ”

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Boko Haram raids 16 villages in Nigeria, a bomb is detonated outside an NAACP office in Colorado, and a Muslim cleric bans snowmen.

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Official Business

The Art of Outrage

We defend Charlie Hebdo’s right to publish its cartoons—and our right to critique them.

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Palestine is denied statehood, the NYPD stops worry about minor criminal offenses, and a farmer slaughters half of his herd of Nazi-bred cows

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

The 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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Close Reading

Time Out of Joint In Richard McGuire’s Here

“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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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

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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Publisher’s Note

Amid redactions and monotony, reckless CIA cruelty

"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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Supplemental Reading

Battlefield Worth

Occupy goes to TechCrunch Disrupt      

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

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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Heart of Empire

Borderline Euphoric

Cold War II gets a bipartisan welcome

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Editor's Note

Introducing the January 2015 Issue

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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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

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.

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Official Business

Harper’s Magazine Partners With an Independent Bookstore on Manhattan’s Upper West Side

“Our common cause is to protect the integrity and freedom of thought,” said Harper’s publisher John MacArthur.

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

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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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Obama reveals his plan for immigration reform, the Keystone XL pipeline fails in the Senate, and Afghanistan's first amusement park thrives

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Publisher’s Note

The New York Times tries to marginalize the left

“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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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

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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Editor's Note

Introducing the December 2014 Issue

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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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Republicans win the Senate, President Obama doubles the number of troops in Iraq, and Ted Cruz calls Net Neutrality "Obamacare for the Internet"

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Harper's in the News

Last Interview With First Brit to Perform Suicide Bombing

Suicide bomber Abu Sumayyah, who killed himself and eight others in Iraq, gave his final print interview to Harper's

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Conversation

Discussing the “Radical Otherness” of Israel with Frédéric Brenner

Only 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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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

U.S. congressional candidates woo voters, Sweden recognizes Palestine, and the Pope says God is not a magician

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Six Questions

Discussing Man V. Nature with Diane Cook

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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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

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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Publisher’s Note

A purposeless, symbolic war

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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