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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On the endemic corruption of the global oil industry
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From Swim: The Water in Between, a photographic series by Francine Fleischer. Courtesy the artist. This photograph accompanies the Findings section of the July 2014 issue of Harper’s Magazine.
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Christopher Beha discusses sex tapes as literary vehicle, the celebrity impulse, and the problematic absence of religion in American literature
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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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Jeff Sharlet on his collection of essential dispatches, reports, confessions, and other essays on American belief
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“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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“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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From Johnny Cash to “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad”
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A retrospective exhibition from June 27 to September 21 in New York City
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Futebol and family in Belo Horizonte during the opening week of the World Cup
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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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Andrew Cockburn discusses the origins and possible fate of Nouri al-Maliki’s prime ministership
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“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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The Last Magazine exposes the lies and obfuscations of the march to war in Iraq
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ISIS launches a major offensive in Iraq, the 2014 World Cup begins, and Florida keeps on being Florida
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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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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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Unity and disunity in Palestine, NYRB vs. CIA, and John Roberts marries art criticism with jurisprudence
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“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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Mark Denbeaux on the NCIS cover-up of three “suicides” at Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp
“Silverback Gorilla,” from the Posters Bitten by the Artist’s Dog series, by Iván Krassoievitch. Courtesy 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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Three brutal crimes against women in Asia, a controversial Taliban prisoner swap, and a human-skin heist in Connecticut
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