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- The radioactive boy scout: the teenager who attempted to build a breeder reactor http://www.harpers.org/archive/1998/11/0059750 18 comments
- Spend, Baby, Spend: Mitt Romney plans for massive government stimulus spending centered around energy policy and oil drilling http://www.harpers.org/archive/2012/08/hbc-90008826 6 comments politics
- Ron Paul and Romney delegates were fighting on the convention floor over delegates. They united for one brief moment-to scream "USA" at a Puerto Rican woman. http://www.harpers.org/archive/2012/08/hbc-90008805 8 comments politics
- A Troubling Chant on the GOP Convention Floor—By Jack Hitt (Harper's Magazine) http://www.harpers.org/archive/2012/08/hbc-90008805 9 comments politics
- Dick Cheney's Song Of America: Drafting A Plan For Global Dominance -- "An essay exploring the real origins of the Iraq War, written before the war started." http://www.harpers.org/archive/2002/10/0079354 5 comments politics
- Bush Cancels Trip to Switzerland because two victims of torture in U.S. detention have prepared a criminal complaint against him, backed by a coalition of international human rights groups, two former United Nations rapporteurs, and two Nobel Peace Prize laureate http://www.harpers.org/archive/2011/02/hbc-90007967 29 comments politics
- Why Is Obama Protecting Bush's Torture Goons? - the Justice Dept has failed to comply with its treaty obligations to supply information requested by prosecutors...who are probing allegations of kidnapping, false arrest, assault, and torture by persons believed to be CIA agents. http://www.harpers.org/archive/2010/12/hbc-90007880 12 comments politics
- When the CIA swooped in and took him, they badly damaged Italy’s work against terrorists. The case, in other words, looked like a good example of how the “war on terror” made the West less safe from terrorists http://www.harpers.org/archive/2010/10/hbc-90007598 12 comments worldnews
- the story of north america's first documented serial killer, and his murder castle. http://www.harpers.org/archive/1943/12/0020617 6 comments history
- When Is Offering a Drink of Water a Crime? http://www.harpers.org/archive/2010/09/hbc-90007576 76 comments politics
- ‘Why do you hate us?’ [the US officer asked], ‘Because you blow down our doors, enter our houses, pull our women by the hair and kick our children. We cannot accept this. We will fight back, and we will break your teeth, and when your teeth are broken you will leave...It is just a matter of time.’” http://www.harpers.org/archive/2010/07/hbc-90007341 116 comments worldnews
- George W. Bush: War Is The Health Of The State - "[Bush] said the best way to revitalize the economy is war. And that the US has grown stronger with war." http://www.harpers.org/archive/2010/05/hbc-90007133 14 comments politics
- George W. Bush, Torture President - Bush’s statement amounts to an admission of his role in a serious crime. He can speak and act without concern because the Obama White House has announced its intention not to enforce American domestic law... http://www.harpers.org/archive/2010/06/hbc-90007166 13 comments politics
- Tear Down This Myth: The Right-Wing Distortion of the Reagan Legacy http://www.harpers.org/archive/2010/02/hbc-90006567 74 comments politics
- Tear Down This Myth http://www.harpers.org/archive/2010/02/hbc-90006567 23 comments history
- Dehumanized:When math and science rule the school http://www.harpers.org/archive/2009/09/0082640 19 comments reddit.com
- Harper's Year in Review: "In Afghanistan, where the Taliban threatened to chop off the fingers of anyone who votes, the government passed a law allowing men to starve wives who refuse sex." http://www.harpers.org/archive/2009/12/hbc-90006317 4 comments reddit.com
- "...there are many things “math and science” do well, and some they don’t. And one of the things they don’t do well is democracy." http://www.harpers.org/archive/2009/09/0082640 14 comments philosophy
- Sartre: "Yeah, after I took mescaline, I started seeing crabs around me all the time. They followed me in the streets, into class. I got used to them. I would wake up in the morning and say, 'Good morning, my little ones, how did you sleep?'" http://www.harpers.org/archive/2009/11/0082690 63 comments philosophy
- Tense Present: David Foster Wallace on Democracy, English, and the Wars over Usage (PDF) http://www.harpers.org/media/pdf/dfw/harpersmagazine-2001-04-0070913.pdf 4 comments linguistics
- On the eve of the Civil War, the North was three times wealthier than the South and yet the South had two-thirds of the nation’s richest men. Excellent article on payday lenders. http://www.harpers.org/archive/2009/04/0082451 49 comments reddit.com
- "For eight years, Condoleezza Rice dealt with the Beltway punditry and the access-craving White House press corps. The reception she got, with a handful of exceptions, was fawning. Which leaves her totally unprepared for a return to an academy populated with the Daily Show generation." http://www.harpers.org/archive/2009/05/hbc-90004883 3 comments politics
- Former Gitmo Guard Tells All (As bad or worse than you suspected it was) http://www.harpers.org/archive/2009/02/hbc-90004409 35 comments politics
- "The Family" is a largely unknown secret society that has existed for decades and includes US politicians and CEOs. http://www.harpers.org/archive/2003/03/0079525? 14 comments politics
- Lawyer: "No prior administration has been so systematically or so brazenly lawless" http://www.harpers.org/archive/2008/12/0082303 16 comments politics
- A Statistical Summary of the Bush Administration http://www.harpers.org/archive/2009/01/0082319 5 comments politics
- Did the CIA train people with drugs and other mind-control techniques to perform a mission — then forget them, like the Manchurian Candidate? Some people say it happened to them. http://www.harpers.org/archive/2008/07/hbc-90003229 19 comments politics
- “Reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.” http://www.harpers.org/archive/2008/06/0082039 3 comments politics
- Hold the Presses! Journalist Challenges Karl Rove for Lying http://www.harpers.org/archive/2008/04/hbc-90002888 11 comments politics
- On why the tapes were destroyed: "...the prospect of [criminal] prosecution [of CIA interrogators] is hardly far-fetched. It is a virtual certainty. " http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/12/hbc-90001868 6 comments politics
- When Critics Are Really Pumpkins http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/10/hbc-90001413 5 comments reddit.com
- Since 2002, Edwards, Clinton and prominent trial lawyers have been targeted for political prosecutions; their finance offences were to be treated not as administrative matters but rather as serious criminal offenses http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/09/hbc-90001266 2 comments reddit.com
- Brutally bitter e-mail exchange between Judd Apatow (40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up) and Mark Brazill (That 70's Show) http://www.harpers.org/archive/2002/03/0079095 62 comments reddit.com
- Whitewash As Public Service: The 9/11 Commission Allowed Bush to Lie... So When Will The US Properly Investigate 9/11? http://www.harpers.org/archive/2004/10/0080234 3 comments reddit.com
- Dick Cheney may be implicated in Halliburton/Bechtel bribery investigation http://www.harpers.org/this-week-in-babylon-138281283.html 3 comments reddit.com
- Just in case you overslept here is the Week In Review. http://www.harpers.org/weeklyreview2006-10-03.html 2 comments reddit.com
- The Bush Administration's changes to CAFE are a very bad idea http://www.harpers.org/bb-cafe-mistakes-28938283.html 3 comments reddit.com
- Bitter email exchange between creator of "That 70s Show" and the creator of "Freaks and Geeks" http://www.harpers.org/donthaveacowman.html 10 comments reddit.com
- American Coup D'Etat http://www.harpers.org/americancoupdetat.html 28 comments reddit.com
- The Oil We Eat http://www.harpers.org/theoilweeat.html 3 comments reddit.com