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21st century

It Takes a Villa

From testimony given in January at a Senate subcommittee hearing to examine spending within the Task Force for Business and Stability Operations, a division of the Department of Defense that…

No More Me

by Jenny Diski,

By Jenny Diski, from her Twitter feed. Diski, a contributor to Harper’s Magazine, was the author of ten novels and eight works of non-fiction, including In Gratitude, a memoir about…

Set Phrases to Stun

From an amicus brief filed in April by the Language Creation Society, a nonprofit organization, in support of the producers of a crowd-funded Star Trek fan film. Last year, the…

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by Charles Fréger,

My Holy Land Vacation

by Tom Bissell,

Touring Israel with 450 Christian Zionists

El Bloqueo

by Joy Gordon,

The Cuban embargo continues

Death of a General

by Sune Engel Rasmussen,

The American military’s failure to prevent an insider attack

Brighter Than a Billion Sunsets

by Lyle Rexer,

Why we take so many pictures and what it means for photography

Findings

by Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,

Americans experiencing a medical emergency in public receive assistance from bystanders 4.2 percent of the time if they are white and 1.8 percent of the time if they are black,…

Europe’s Hamilton Moment

by Harper’s Magazine,

The euro and its discontents

How to Make Your Own AR-15

by Dan Baum,

A gunman kills 49 people with an AR-15 assault rifle at an Orlando nightclub; Dan Baum investigates whether gun-control laws could ever stop the weapon from proliferating