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Bambi v. Godzilla

by David Mamet,

Why art loses in Hollywood

It’s not easy here in Katmandu

by Eliza Griswold,

Caught between the Maoist rebels and the king's army

Every land is Karbala

by Steven Vincent,

In Shiite posters, a fever dream for Iraq

Feeling the hate with the National Religious Broadcasters

by Chris Hedges,

Inside America’s Most Powerful Megachurch

by Jeff Sharlet,

The Cuba diet

by Bill McKibben,

What will you be eating when the revolution comes?

Death of a mountain

by Erik Reece,

Radical strip mining and the leveling of Appalachia

The $4.7 trillion pyramid

by Michael Hudson,

Why Social Security won't be enough to save Wall Street

Unnecessary excellence

by Daniel Brook,

What public-housing design can learn from its past

The lost buddhas of Bamiyan

by Matthew Power,

Picking up the pieces in Afghanistan

AWOL in America

by Kathy Dobie,

When desertion is the only option

In memoriam

by Harper’s Staff,

The city of tomorrow

by Mark Kingwell,

Searching for the future of architecture in Shanghai

Life everlasting

by Garret Keizer,

The religious right and the right to die

Clone your troubles away

by David Quammen,

Dreaming at the frontiers of animal husbandry

The secret ingredient

by Frederick Kaufman,

Keeping the world kosher

Grand opening

by Jake Silverstein,

Ronald McDonald conquers New Spain

The trash folder

by Matthew Power,

As waste, our computers are not easily erased

A romance of rust

by Donovan Hohn,

Nostalgia, progress, and the meaning of tools

Speak, Hoyt-Schermerhorn

by Jonathan Lethem,

Doom and romance on a subway platform

Buried truth

by Benjamin Phelan,

Debunking the nuclear "bunker buster"

The U.N. is us

by Joy Gordon,

Exposing Saddam Hussein's silent partner

War wounds

by Tom Bissell,

A father and son return to Vietnam

Meet the New Boss

by Christopher Ketcham,

Man vs. machine politics in Brooklyn

Attack of the superzeroes

by Thomas De Zengotita,

Why Washington, Einstein, and Madonna can't compete with you

Our Friend the Smear

by Bill Wasik,

Notes on the origin of specious

The Libya fallacy

by David Gargill,

The Iraq war is not what disarmed Qaddafi

The African-American arts

by Seth Ackerman,

Attempts this year to suppress the black vote would not be the first

No appeal

by Ronnie Dugger,

With a third of the votes unrecountable, another Florida could happen anywhere

Another Florida

by Gregory Palast,

Having failed to fix its voting problems, Florida is poised to be Florida again

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