The state Supreme Court tells Kansas legislators to restore funding for education. Will they comply?
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Barbara Ehrenreich on writing, social activism, and the possible existence of a mystical Other
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Despite lingering effects from a 2010 earthquake, Haiti still throws a good party
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Crisis in Crimea, corruption in Turkey, and the inadequate diversity of Google Doodles
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An untitled photograph by Kim Thue from Dead Traffic, a book of his work in Sierra Leone, published in 2012 by dienacht Publishing. Courtesy the artist and dienacht Publishing. This photograph appears in the Readings section of the March 2014 issue of Harper’s Magazine.
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Tracing an original edition of Solomon Northup’s narrative to a slaveholder
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Jennifer Percy on lyricism in nonfiction, the demons of American veterans, and circumventing expected narratives of PTSD
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Upheaval in Ukraine, yobbery in the United Kingdom, and a historic douche in the United States
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Shoreham, a painting by William Mackinnon, whose work was on view last November at Utopian Slumps, in Melbourne. © The artist. Courtesy Morton Fine Art, Washington, D.C. This image appears in the Readings section of the March 2014 issue of Harper’s Magazine.
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A U.N. report compares North Korean prison camps to Nazi concentration camps, Barack Obama plays through drought in California, and Canada’s Inuit are warned away from raw Beluga meat
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Fremont, Nebraska, votes to keep its anti-immigration ordinance — at a possible cost of millions
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The decline of America’s left, Barbara Ehrenreich, Norman Rush, and more
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“Pharaonic exclusion is their motto; contempt for human scale and ordinary people their raison d’être.”
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The state Supreme Court prepares to decide the fate of Kansas public-school funding
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The Winter Olympic Games open in Sochi, Al Qaeda splits with ISIS, and a cat named Quiver survives an arrow shot
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“Buddhist Retreat near Pietermaritzburg, Kwazulu Natal,” a photograph by Santu Mofokeng, whose work was on view in November as part of the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Courtesy the artist and Lunetta, Bartz, Maker, Johannesburg. This image appears in the Readings section of the February 2014 issue of Harper’s Magazine.
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The president wants to raise the minimum wage, Pete Seeger and Philip Seymour Hoffman pass away, and a criminal is sentenced to Gladwell
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“Pacific Ocean,” a shredded photograph by Gloria Baker Feinstein. This image accompanies “Memory’s Passages,” by Sarah Manguso, in the February 2014 issue of Harper’s Magazine.
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Study for Vignette 15, a painting by Kerry James Marshall, whose work was on view in December at the National Gallery of Art, in Washington, D.C. Courtesy the artist and Koplin del Rio Gallery, Culver City, California. This image appears in the Readings section of the February 2014 issue of Harper’s Magazine.
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Photographic evidence of war crimes in Syria, ominous Ukrainian texting, and a South Korean tower of jawbones
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Canvas, an erased book page by Jonathan Callan. Courtesy the artist and Martin Kudlek Galerie, Cologne, Germany. This image accompanies the Findings section in the February 2014 issue of Harper’s Magazine.
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