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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

The U.S. bombs Syria, bishops almost support same-sex couples, and violence breaks out at a New Hampshire pumpkin festival

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Editor's Note

Introducing the November 2014 Issue

Doug Henwood on stopping Hillary Clinton, fighters and potential recruits discuss the rise of the Islamic State, the inevitability of factory farming, and more

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Ebola’s rising death toll, U.N. member states’ unpaid bills, and a recipe for “bear satay on a stick.”

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Personal and Otherwise

On Getting Wasted

Among the hoarders and junk haulers of Charleston

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Harper's in the News

Harper’s in the News

Harper's publishes a story about PBS; PBS pulls its advertising in Harper's; the Internet has the story.

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

America's first Ebola diagnosis, a pro-ICBM clothing exchange, and Joe Biden on being number two.

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Six Questions

Discussing On Immunity: An Inoculation with Eula Biss

Eula Biss discusses vaccinations, motherhood, and metaphors

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Postcard

Marooned at the Mall

Iraq’s forgotten Christians in Kurdish exile

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Student protests in Hong Kong, two sex-scandal resignations, and the CIA's lust for lemon pound cake.

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Art

True Story 8

True Story 8, a mixed-media painting by Tim Hussey, whose work was on view in March at LAUNCH, in Los Angeles. Courtesy the artist. This image appears in the Readings section of the October 2014 issue of Harper’s Magazine.

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Scotland rejects independence, Sierra Leone issues a three-day lockdown, and Iran lashes its citizens for doing a “Happy” dance

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Art

“From Cipango II” and “From Cipango III”

“From Cipango II” and “From Cipango III,” gelatin silver prints by Bianca Sforni, whose work was on view in July at Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, in New York City. Courtesy Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, New York City. This image appears in the Readings section of the October 2014 issue of Harper’s Magazine.

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Heart of Empire

Flying Blind

The U.S. air-power lobby, botched bombing missions, and bootless combat.

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Six Questions

Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits, and Leanne Shapton on Women in Clothes

Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits, and Leanne Shapton discuss how the clothes we wear shape our lives

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Obama announces air strikes in Iraq; a monsoon superfloods India; and California nudists cover up for the Man

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Editor's Note

Introducing the October 2014 Issue

Rebecca Solnit on silencing women, a Marine commander returns to Iraq, the decline of PBS, and more

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Art

Monument

Monument, a painting by Sarah Awad, whose work was on view last year at Diane Rosenstein, in Los Angeles. Courtesy the artist and Diane Rosenstein, Los Angeles. This image appears in the Readings section of the October 2014 issue of Harper’s Magazine.

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Publisher’s Note

Is France in peril? Au contraire!

"To compete with tight-fisted, export-driven Germany, France needs to devalue its currency, but it can’t, since it doesn’t have its own currency."

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

ISIL murders journalist Steven Sotloff; Satan in Moscow and Detroit; and Florida police play Cherries Waffles Tennis

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Art

Netter

Netter, a painting by Bradley Castellanos, whose work was on view last year at the Miami Project Art Fair, in Miami. Courtesy the artist and RYAN LEE, New York City. This image appears in the Readings section of the September 2014 issue of Harper’s Magazine.

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Postcard

Lunch at the Robot Grill

What Japan’s automats portend for American restaurant chains

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Perspective

On Maleness and Deep Springs College

An alumnus reflects on the possibility of female students at Deep Springs

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Kurdish and Shia forces battle ISIL in Iraq; a ceasefire takes hold in Gaza; and Barack Obama’s audacious taupe

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Art

Black Swans, Kellidie Bay

“Black Swans, Kellidie Bay,” a photograph made using a motion-detecting infrared camera, by Kate Breakey, whose work is on view this month at Etherton Gallery, in Tucson, Arizona, and Stephen L. Clark Gallery, in Austin, Texas. © The artist. This image appears in the Readings section of the September 2014 issue of Harper’s Magazine.

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Six Questions

William Deresiewicz on Excellent Sheep

William Deresiewicz discusses the miseducation of the American elite

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