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In Praise of Boredom

The world into which I was born no longer exists, of course. I’ve been around for almost half a century, so it was inevitable. My parents — one French, raised…

What Recovery?

by Kai Wright,

Two years in a town where the Great Recession never ended

A Camera on Every Cop

by Mya Frazier,

Taser International cashes in on police misconduct

Wrong Prescription?

by Trudy Lieberman,

The failed promise of the Affordable Care Act

The Melancholy of Anatomy

by Wendell Berry,

By Wendell Berry, from Our Only World, out this month from Counterpoint. Berry’s essay “Faustian Economics” appeared in the May 2008 issue of Harper’s Magazine.

Captive Market

by Michael Ames,

Why we won’t get prison reform

The Quinoa Quarrel

by Lisa M. Hamilton,

Who owns the world’s greatest superfood?

Tunnel Vision

by Andrew Cockburn,

Will the Air Force kill its most effective weapon?

Bad Romance

by Jesse Barron,

One genre and a billion happy endings

The Digital Revolution That Wasn’t

by Jeff Madrick,

For as long as there have been machines, there have been worries about their power to destroy jobs. The Luddites — early-nineteenth-century artisans who bitterly resisted the new textile machinery…

Damage Control

by Ben Lerner,

The modern art world’s tyranny of price