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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

The Supreme Court considers skim-milk marriage, a Guantánamo Bay hunger strike expands, and Egyptian scuba divers sabotage SEA-ME-WE-4

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Art

Untitled

Untitled, a mixed-media painting by Francis Alÿs, whose work was featured in April's Readings section. Alÿs is currently participating in the Sharjah Biennial, in Sharjah, UAE. Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner, New York City/London

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Art

From Cuts, Burns, Punctures

In a slide projection entitled Cuts, Burns, Punctures, Ishmael Randall Weeks uses found slides from 1970s and ’80s Peru, which he alters to reflect on the violence of the country's multidecade struggle for democracy. Still courtesy the artist and Eleven Rivington, New York City.

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Obama hoofs it to Israel, Cyprus barely skates by, and a Canadian suggests an unusual stimulus project

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Art

Untitled #11

"Untitled #11," by Jonathan Smith, from his series Untold Stories. © The artist. Courtesy Rick Wester Fine Art, New York City

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Harper's Finest

Harper’s Magazine on the Iraq War (2002–2013)

Tracing our coverage of the war, from Lewis H. Lapham to Andrew J. Bacevich 

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Publisher’s Note

Obama’s Real Political Program

Vague talk about the middle class, and plenty for big business

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Official Business

Susan Wides at Kim Foster Gallery in NYC

The exhibition Susan Wides: All the Worlds, which includes photography that accompanied "Some Assembly Required" (Harper's Magazine, February 2012), opens tonight at Kim Foster Gallery.

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The Anti-Economist

Day of Greed

A quick scan for a deadly sin

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Postcard

Network Free K.C.

The Free Network Foundation takes on Google in Kansas City

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Pope Francis among the people, rapist self-pity, and a slavery debate at CPAC

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Official Business

The Middlebrow: A Panel Discussion at the New School

A discussion with critics Ruth Franklin, Christine Smallwood, and Jennifer Szalai on Wednesday, March 20, at 6:30 p.m.

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No Comment

Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East

Rashid Khalidi on how the United States sustains the failure of the Israel–Palestine peace process

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Six Questions

Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party

Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin Jr. on the rise of the Black Panther Party, revolution, and the glory of guns

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The Anti-Economist

We Need a Shadow CBO

The trouble with the Congressional Budget Office’s long-term budget projections

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Chávez cancer conspiracy theories, drone droning, and coitus leo interruptus

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Personal and Otherwise

On the Origins of Stories

“I could trace the origin of this story for pages, back and back and back.”

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Sequestration remonstration, shticklomacy in North Korea, and the menagerie of Nutzu the Pawnbroker

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Publisher’s Note

The State of Fostoria, Ohio

A short documentary about a town whose Autolite spark-plug plant moved most of its jobs to Mexico in the wake of NAFTA.

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Postcard

Sedi Vacanti

The empty palaces of Rome

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Perspective

On Archer’s Underground Comix Roots

How underground comic books helped give rise to Archer

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Perspective

On Charles Newman’s Peripatetic Life

From the introduction to Newman’s magnum opus, In Partial Disgrace

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Art

Tights, 1987–2011

“Tights, 1987–2011,” by Daido Moriyama, whose work appeared in the Readings section of the March issue. © the artist. Courtesy Michael Hoppen Contemporary, London

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