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Barack Obama began his week-long foreign tour in Afghanistan, where he met with President Hamid Karzai, and continued on to Iraq. There, he flew in a helicopter to the Green…

Weekly Review

by Gemma Sieff,

The U.S. Office of Thrift Supervision seized the IndyMac Bank of California, worth an estimated 32 billion dollars, after the bank’s closure in the wake of mortgage industry collapse,AFPand the…

The Supreme Court ruled 5â??4 that detainees held as “enemy combatants” by the United States in Guantanamo Bay,Cuba, have a constitutional right to challenge their detention through habeas corpus petitions…

Bluebird Canyon

Art by Alexis Rockman,

The doctor is out

by Harper’s Staff,

Weekly Review

by Paul Ford,

President George W. Bush gave a radio address for Memorial Day weekend, invoking the sacrifice of 4,071 U.S. soldiers in Iraq and 432 in Afghanistan. Later, for the last time…

Weekly Review

by Chantal Clarke,

A 7.9-magnitude earthquake centered in Sichuan Province, China, left 50,000 dead and 5,000,000 homeless. Outside Beichuan Middle School, where 1,000 students and teachers died, parents waited for the bodies of…

Weekly Review

by Sam Stark,

Caught in the Web, 1860. The military junta in Myanmar put the official death toll from last week’s Cyclone Nargis (Urdu for “daffodil”) at 28,458, while foreign observers, taking into…

My metaphor weighs tons

by William Davies King,

The Revolution Will Not Be Pasteurized

by Nathanael Johnson,

Inside the raw-milk underground

Falling

by Donovan Hohn,

Confessions of a lapsed forest Christian

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Bluebird Canyon

The doctor is out

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My metaphor weighs tons

The Revolution Will Not Be Pasteurized

Falling

April 2008

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