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Carmen Ortiz Strikes Out

Congress prepares to slap down prosecutors linked to the suicide of Aaron Swartz

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Publisher’s Note

Google’s Media Barons

“Where will it end, as Google becomes ever more dominant?”

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The Anti-Economist

Does America Need Jack Lew?

The incoming treasury secretary's positions on regulation and the deficit offer cause for concern

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Australian wildfires, Giant Peach arithmetic, and Russian zorb misadventures

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Memento Mori

Remembering Evan S. Connell (1924–2013)

On the life-drawings of an American literary master

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Aaron Swartz, RIP

A leading cyberactivist commits suicide at twenty-six. Was he hounded to death by federal prosecutors?

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Mentions

Barry Lopez on NPR’s Fresh Air

Author Barry Lopez talks with Terry Gross about his essay on the sexual abuse he suffered as a child

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The DOJ’s Torturer-Protection Program

By sending a decorated intelligence officer to prison, the Justice Department shields torturers in the ranks of the CIA

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

A (relatively) diverse new Congress, Brigitte Bardot's elephant empathy, and life on Ezie Street

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The Pardons Turkeys

The Department of Justice is strangling the pardons process — again

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From the Magazine

Mining the Soviet Experience in Afghanistan

The Soviet Union assesses its Afghan campaign (March 2009)

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The Anti-Economist

America Is Having the Wrong Fiscal Argument

The question should be whether to cut the deficit right now, not how

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From the Magazine

The Class Politics of Vaccination

“Debates over vaccination, then as now, were often cast as debates over the integrity of science, though they could just as easily be understood as conversations about power.”

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Memento Mori

Larry L. King (1929–2012)

R.I.P. Larry L. King, Harper's Magazine contributor from 1965 to 1971

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Perspective

On Vampire Capitalism and the Fear of Inoculation

Why efforts to contain disease are often seen as conspiracies to sell vaccines

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Apocalypse Not, an NRA nut, and Nutella shopping at the Vatican

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Harper's Finest

Captain Wilfrid Ewart’s “Two Christmas Mornings of the Great War” (1920)

Accounts of the legendary frontline ceasefires on Christmas Day between British and German soldiers

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From the Magazine

Charles Dickens’s Mock Book Titles

From an 1851 “list of imitation book-backs” sent by Charles Dickens to a London bookbinder.

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From the Magazine

The Settlers of Catan’s Greenhouse Rules

“For every five oils used, an environmental disaster results.”

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Yet another tragic mass shooting in the United States

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European Court Condemns CIA Extraction Techniques as Torture

A European human rights court hands down the first binding decision against Bush-era rendition techniques

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The Anti-Economist

The Fed’s Historic Week

The Federal Reserve makes jobs a priority at last

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Conversation

A Conversation With Russell Banks

“[T]o be an artist . . . you really have to blast the launch pad to get liftoff, scorching everything and everyone around you, and you cause a lot of damage sometimes.”

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