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Dan Halpern’s “Citizen Walmart” (2012)

The retail giant’s unlikely romance with small farmers

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Editor's Note

Introducing the May 2014 Issue

The life-coach industry, quinoa quarreling, and the comedy of Doug Stanhope

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Afghanistan votes, the U.S. Supreme Court rules in favor of wealthy political donors, and China standardizes its pets 

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Postcard

The Ghost Polls of Afghanistan

Election Day in Afghanistan’s hinterlands

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Postcard

A Day of Blue Fingers

Election Day in Afghanistan’s capital

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Art

From Shanxi

Photograph by Zhang Xiao from his monograph Shanxi, published last December by Little Big ManCourtesy the artist and Little Big Man. This photograph appears in the Readings section of the April 2014 issue of Harper’s Magazine.

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Postcard

Push Poll

Registering to vote in Kabul

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Postcard

The Deepwater Horizon Spill, Four Years On

Preparing for an expedition to sites affected by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Ennui sets into the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, Guinea combats Ebola, and the distinctive arson of Cameo Crispi 

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Art

Untitled

“Untitled,” a photograph by Rinko Kawauchi, whose monograph SHEETS was published in November by Kominek Books. Courtesy the artist and ROSEGALLERY, Santa Monica, California. This photograph appears in the Readings section of the April 2014 issue of Harper’s Magazine.

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Postcard

Hands Over Istanbul

About town with the aspiring lords of Byzantium

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Six Questions

The Empathy Exams: Essays

Leslie Jamison on empathy in craft and in life

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Conversation

The Black-Eyed Blonde: A Conversation with John Banville

John Banville on Raymond Chandler, literary inhabitation, and the stylish prose of dishwasher instruction manuals

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Malaysia declares Flight 370 lost, the Westboro Baptist Church loses its patriarch, and Hawaiian police officers fight for their right to have on-duty sex with prostitutes

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Art

Call Me Sometime

Call Me Sometimea painting by Angela Dufresne, whose work will be on view in September at Monya Rowe Gallery, in New York City. Courtesy the artist and Monya Rowe Gallery, New York City. This painting appears in the Readings section of the April 2014 issue of Harper’s Magazine.

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Heart of Empire

Sins of the Fatcat

Bob Ivry’s guide for tracking down the live villains and unburied bodies of the 2008 crash Read More
Conversation

The Prisoner: A Conversation with Omar Shahid Hamid

Omar Shahid Hamid on novelizing Karachi's cops and gangsters

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Six Questions

The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew

Alan Lightman on the theory of everything, technology as mediator of human experience, and empathizing with the religious impulse

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Appreciation

Matt Power: Headlamp a Must

“January 1998. In the windowless office shared by the Harper’s interns, I meet this hippie dude from Vermont: ponytail, spectacles of the sort favored by engineering students, lumberjack shirt.” 

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Crimeans vote to join the Russian Federation, the mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 deepens, and Joseph Jambon tackles the fornicating slipper snail

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Art

Untitled (Southwest)

Untitled (Southwest), a painting by Cobi Moules, whose work was on view last October at Lyons Wier Gallery, in New York City. Courtesy the artist. This painting appears in the Readings section of the April 2014 issue of Harper’s Magazine.

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Ars Philosopha

On Hypocrisy

Should we condemn hypocrites, when we can’t help but be hypocrites ourselves?

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Publisher’s Note

The Left Must Derail Hillary Clinton in the Primaries

A straightforward strategy for reversing the rightward trend of both parties

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Editor's Note

Introducing the April 2014 Issue

How to be your own best doctor, a drone’s-eye view of America, and drought threatens the Southwest

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Art

Pie Fight Interior 2

Pie Fight Interior 2, a painting by Adrian Ghenie, whose work was on view last May at Pace Gallery, in New York City. © The artist. Courtesy Pace Gallery, New York City. This painting appears in the Readings section of the March 2014 issue of Harper’s Magazine.

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

A plane vanishes over Southeast Asia, Russia and Ukraine stake out their positions on Crimea, and Canada expands its Moose Sex Project

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