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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Tensions rise over murders in Israel and Palestine, the VA schedules an appointment for a deceased veteran, and the Vatican legitimizes Catholic exorcists

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Conversation

Ken Silverstein’s The Secret World of Oil

On the endemic corruption of the global oil industry

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Art

From Swim: The Water in Between

From Swim: The Water in Between, a photographic series by Francine FleischerCourtesy the artist. This photograph accompanies the Findings section of the July 2014 issue of Harper’s Magazine.

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Browsings

Brussels Spleen

“Belgium is a sniveling little ragamuffin . . .”

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Six Questions

Christopher Beha on Arts and Entertainments

Christopher Beha discusses sex tapes as literary vehicle, the celebrity impulse, and the problematic absence of religion in American literature

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

The U.S. Supreme Court weakens the ACA’s contraception mandate; ISIL attempts to legitimize its territorial gains in the Middle East; and Facebook gives you feelings 

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Six Questions

Jeff Sharlet on Radiant Truths

Jeff Sharlet on his collection of essential dispatches, reports, confessions, and other essays on American belief

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Harper's Finest

Mary McCarthy’s “Artists in Uniform” (1953)

“He actually said these awful things. But the story is McCarthy’s arrangement of the colonel’s utterance of the words and of her changing perception of their meaning.”

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Art

Tabatioca

“Tabatioca,” a photo collage by Caio Reisewitz, whose work is currently on view at the International Center of Photography, in New York City. © The artist. Courtesy Luciana Brito Galeria, São Paulo. This photo collage appears in the Readings section of the July 2014 issue of Harper’s Magazine.

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Appreciation

The Twenty-Three Best Train Songs Ever Written—Maybe

From Johnny Cash to “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad”

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Studio Window

Karine Laval’s Eclipses

Photographs that push the boundaries of what a photograph can be

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Official Business

Garry Winogrand at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

A retrospective exhibition from June 27 to September 21 in New York City

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Postcard

Below the Beautiful Horizon

Futebol and family in Belo Horizonte during the opening week of the World Cup

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Joy, agony, and racism at the 2014 World Cup; ISIL on the march in Iraq; and crowd-surfing to Handel’s Messiah

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Heart of Empire

Andrew Cockburn on Democracy Now

Andrew Cockburn discusses the origins and possible fate of Nouri al-Maliki’s prime ministership

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Art

AUTOMOBILE. Field Sobriety Test. Photographer Unknown. 07-06-1958

“AUTOMOBILE. Field Sobriety Test. Photographer Unknown. 07-06-1958,” one in a series of photographs from the archives of the Los Angeles Police Department on view in April at Paris Photo LA© Los Angeles Police Department. Courtesy Fototeka Los Angeles. This photograph appears in the Readings section of the July 2014 issue of Harper’s Magazine.

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Publisher’s Note

In Praise of Michael Hastings

The Last Magazine exposes the lies and obfuscations of the march to war in Iraq 

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

ISIS launches a major offensive in Iraq, the 2014 World Cup begins, and Florida keeps on being Florida

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Art

Discovery

Discovery, a painting by Ricky Allman, whose work was on view in June at Galleri Benoni, in Copenhagen. Courtesy the artist. This painting appears in the Readings section of the July 2014 issue of Harper’s Magazine.

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Heart of Empire

The Long Shadow of a Neocon

Reassessing a primary architect of Iraq and Afghanistan’s current misery Read More
Editor's Note

Introducing the July 2014 Issue

Kevin Baker on the lost glory of America’s railroads, Mark Hertsgaard on Obama’s environmental failures, Sarah Menkedick on why Mexican immigrants are moving back home, and more

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Unity and disunity in PalestineNYRB vs. CIA, and John Roberts marries art criticism with jurisprudence

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Art

Clover Tangle

“Clover Tangle,” a photograph from the series Nurturing Time, Life in a Backyard Garden, by David Wolf, whose work was on view in February at the Center for Photographic Art, in Carmel, California. Courtesy the artist and Corden|Potts Gallery, San Francisco. This photograph appears in the Readings section of the June 2014 issue of Harper’s Magazine.

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No Comment

Uncovering the Cover Ups: Death Camp in Delta

Mark Denbeaux on the NCIS cover-up of three “suicides” at Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp

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Art

“Silverback Gorilla”

“Silverback Gorilla,” from the Posters Bitten by the Artist’s Dog series, by Iván KrassoievitchCourtesy the artist and Machete, Mexico City and Buenos Aires. This image accompanied the Findings section of the June 2014 issue of Harper’s Magazine.

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Three brutal crimes against women in Asia, a controversial Taliban prisoner swap, and a human-skin heist in Connecticut

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