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Hasta la vista, Fidel

In Cuba, death waits (patiently) for the dictator

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Giving Women the Business

On winning, losing, and leaving the corporate game

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Biocapitalism

What price the genetic revolution?

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Unmasking the court of no appeal

A secret federal surveillance tribunal takes exception to the Bill of Rights

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At your disposal

The funeral industry prepares for boom times

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Fascism à la mode

In France, the far right presses for national purity

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Driving Mr. Albert

A trip across America with Einstein

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Mean Season

In Northern Ireland, the Troubles come as regular as rain

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II. As a weapon in the hands of the restless poor

Earl Shorris was a regular contributor to Harper’s Magazine from 1972 until his death in 2012. In 1995, he founded the Clemente Course for the Humanities, a ten-month-long academic program…

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On the Uses of a Liberal Education

II. As a weapon in the hands of the restless poor

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Aboard the Gravy Train

In Kazakhstan, the farce that is U.S. foreign aid

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The Inhumanity of the Animal People

Do creatures have the same rights that we do?

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Spinning the Poor into Gold

How corporations seek to profit from welfare reform

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In the garden of tabloid delight

Notes on sex, Americans, scandal, and morality

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Bird-watching as a blood sport

On the redemptive pain of loving the natural world

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Old soldiers

In Spain, the International Brigades join ranks one last time

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Bringing Down the House

An explosion in Las Vegas plays as performance art

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Ten thousand revolutions

Through South America, in search of Che Guevara

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The federal chain-saw massacre

Clinton's Forest Service and clear-cut corruption

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The long good-bye

Mother's Day in federal prison

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