The retail giant’s unlikely romance with small farmers
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The life-coach industry, quinoa quarreling, and the comedy of Doug Stanhope
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Afghanistan votes, the U.S. Supreme Court rules in favor of wealthy political donors, and China standardizes its pets
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Photograph by Zhang Xiao from his monograph Shanxi, published last December by Little Big Man. Courtesy 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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Preparing for an expedition to sites affected by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill
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Ennui sets into the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, Guinea combats Ebola, and the distinctive arson of Cameo Crispi
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“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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On CIA secrecy, torture, and war-making powers
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John Banville on Raymond Chandler, literary inhabitation, and the stylish prose of dishwasher instruction manuals
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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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Call Me Sometime, a 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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Omar Shahid Hamid on novelizing Karachi's cops and gangsters
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Alan Lightman on the theory of everything, technology as mediator of human experience, and empathizing with the religious impulse
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“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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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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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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Should we condemn hypocrites, when we can’t help but be hypocrites ourselves?
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A straightforward strategy for reversing the rightward trend of both parties
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How to be your own best doctor, a drone’s-eye view of America, and drought threatens the Southwest
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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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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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A study in forced neutrality
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