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by Paul Ford,

The Supreme Court overturned the 32-year ban on handguns in Washington, D.C., ruling 5-4 that there is a Second Amendment right to own a gun for personal use. Justice John…

Democracy and Deference

by Mark Slouka,

I blame my parents, which is trite but traditional. Six years after stepping onto the troubled shore of Senator Joseph McCarthy’s America they had a son and promptly began to fill…

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…

Weekly Review

by Chantal Clarke,

Charges of a rigged presidential election triggered violence along tribal lines in Kenya, leading to more than 700 deaths and the displacement of 250,000 Kenyans. Opposition leader Raila Odinga, who…

Weekly Review

by Gemma Sieff,

Burma’s junta claimed that peace and stability had been restored following its crackdown on mass pro-democracy protests in which at least 30 people, but likely far more, were killed. Up…

The Cloaca Maxima, 1872 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, hailed by his countrymen as the “Socrates of the Third Millennium” for “disarming other speakers through his sharp reasoning,” gave a speech…

Readings

by Harper’s Staff,

Parties of God

by Ken Silverstein,

The Bush doctrine and the rise of Islamic democracy

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by Lynsey Addario,

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Hearts of gold

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Weekly Review

Democracy and Deference

Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Hearts of gold

The kindness of strangers

Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Readings

Parties of God

Untitled

March 2007

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