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God Does Play Dice

From cards used in the board game Vatican: Unlock the Secrets of How Men Become Pope, created by Stephen Haliczer, a professor at Northern Illinois University. The game, which purports…

Active metaphors

by George Saunders,

Weekly Review

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…

Official probe

by Gloria Squitiro,

Most Favored Nation

by Harper’s Staff,

From a memorandum of conversation for a meeting held in Beijing on February 17, 1973, attended by U.S. National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger, Chairman Mao Zedong, Prime Minister Zhou Enlai,…

Why I Pay My Taxes

by Ben Metcalf,

And when they were come to Capernaum, they that received tribute money came to Peter, and said, Doth not your master pay tribute? He saith, Yes. And when he was…