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Weekly Review — April 26, 2017, 4:46 pm
Fox News prime-time host Bill O’Reilly, who once attributed the rape and murder of a woman to the fact that she was “wearing a miniskirt and a halter top” and has said that the slaves who were forced to build the White House were “well-fed,” was fired from the network and given a $25 million severance package after it was reported that he had settled five sexual-harassment lawsuits since 2002 and had referred to an African-American colleague as “hot chocolate” and grunted at her when he walked past her desk.Researchers in California announced that they had genetically modified a wasp to have “big beautiful red eyes.” Read more…
Art — April 25, 2017, 11:47 am
“Portrait,” a photograph by Louise Lawler, whose retrospective WHY PICTURES NOW opens on Sunday at the Museum of Modern Art, in New York City © The artist. Courtesy the artist and Metro Pictures, New York City
Weekly Review — April 19, 2017, 5:28 am
A Chicago Aviation Department police officer pulled a United Airlines passenger from his seat and forcibly removed him from the plane to make room for an off-duty airline employee; three bodies were tossed from a low-flying plane in the Sinaloa state of Mexico; and Tesla, which has yet to turn a profit, became the most valuable car company in America. Read more…
Art, Sketch — April 18, 2017, 5:49 pm
Palestinian-Americans on the meaning of Donald Trump’s presidency. Read more…
Art, Monday Gallery — April 17, 2017, 7:09 am
The Waters Are Getting Warmer, a painting by Jeanette Mundt, whose work is on view this week as part of the group exhibition Sputterances, at Metro Pictures, in New York City. Courtesy the artist; Société Berlin; and Metro Pictures, New York City
Postcard — April 14, 2017, 4:01 pm
Can a former terrorist forge peace in the Basque Country?
Editor's Note — April 13, 2017, 6:06 pm
The human network behind Snowden’s leak, the scandal of mental health in West Africa, Islam’s forgotten reformation, and more…
Weekly Review — April 12, 2017, 12:24 pm
In Syria, President Bashar al-Assad allegedly ordered a chemical-weapons attack on the town of Khan Shaykhun, which killed 86 civilians. Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton said the United States should attack Syrian airfields, and president Donald Trump, who while debating Clinton last year said it was a mistake for the United States to go after Assad and who twice attempted to ban Syrian refugees from coming to the United States, launched 59 Tomahawk missiles from the Mediterranean Sea into an airfield in the Syrian village of al-Shayrat. Read more…
Publisher's Note — April 10, 2017, 5:30 pm
France needs a patriotic, left-wing nationalism
Art, Monday Gallery — April 10, 2017, 11:02 am
DRFTRS (6349), 2017, a collage by Sterling Ruby, whose work is on view this week at Vito Schnabel Gallery, in St. Moritz, Switzerland © The artist. Courtesy Sterling Ruby Studio and Vito Schnabel Gallery, St. Moritz, Switzerland
Weekly Review — April 6, 2017, 1:40 pm
Trump’s former national-security adviser, Michael Flynn, who resigned in February after he was discovered to have discussed U.S. sanctions with Russian officials before Trump took office, and who in 2016 said that “when you are given immunity, that means you have probably committed a crime,” offered to testify before Congress in exchange for immunity, and Trump, who in 2016 said “if you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?” tweeted that Flynn “should ask for immunity.” Read more…
Postcard — April 4, 2017, 1:12 pm
Investigating chronic kidney disease in Jalisco, Mexico
Art, Monday Gallery — April 3, 2017, 10:41 am
“ND1” and “ND3,” photographs by Colin Snapp, whose work is on view this week at Alexander Levy, in Berlin. Courtesy the artist.
Postcard — March 29, 2017, 11:15 am
A visit to the once-glamorous city of Colón. Photographs by Rose Marie Cromwell.
Weekly Review — March 28, 2017, 5:30 pm
A Russian anticorruption advocate and lawyer fell from his fourth-story window, which police said was an accident that occurred while movers were installing his bathtub; and a Russian defector and opposition figure, who three days earlier had told reporters he could return to Russia only “when Putin is gone,” was shot to death on a street in Kiev.Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets in more than 100 Russian cities in support of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, whose flesh was recently turned green by antiseptic thrown in his face. Read more…
Art, Monday Gallery — March 27, 2017, 1:25 pm
“9.20.15_1.53.09” and “10.27.14_11.36.31,” photographs by Susan Wides, whose work is on view at Kim Foster Gallery Project Space, in New York City
Weekly Review — March 24, 2017, 12:26 pm
Trump said that he might not have been elected president “if it wasn’t for Twitter,” Snoop Dogg released a music video in which he is shown shooting a toy gun at a clown named Ronald Klump, a Fox News host suggested that the Secret Service should kill the rapper for creating the video, and Walt Disney refused Malaysian censors’ request to cut gay scenes from its live-action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast. Read more…
MAHARIDGE
It was a frigid winter, and the Manhattan loft was cold — very cold. Something was wrong with the gas line and there was no heat. In a corner, surrounding the bed, sheets had been hung from cords to form a de facto tent with a small electric heater running inside. But the oddities didn’t end there: when I talked to the woman who lived in the loft about her work, she made me take the battery out of my cell phone and stash the device in her refrigerator. People who have dated in New York City for any length of time believe that they’ve seen everything — this was something new.
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Samuel Donkoh had just turned ten when he began to slip away. His brother Martin, two years his senior, first realized something was wrong during a game of soccer with a group of kids from the neighborhood. One minute Samuel was fine, dribbling the ball, and the next he was doubled over in spasms of laughter, as if reacting to a joke nobody else had heard. His teammates, baffled by the bizarre display, chuckled along with him, a response Samuel took for mockery. He grew threatening and belligerent, and Martin was forced to drag him home.
The final two contestants of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, held just outside Washington last May, had gone head-to-head for ten rounds. Nihar Janga, a toothy eleven-year-old with a bowl cut and the vocal pitch of a cartoon character, delighted the audience by breaking with custom: instead of asking the official pronouncer for definitions, he provided them himself. Taoiseach: “Is this an Irish prime minister?” (Yes.) Biniou: “Is this a Breton bagpipe?” (Right again.) His opponent, Jairam Hathwar, a stoic thirteen-year-old, had been favored to win, in large part because his older brother, Sriram, had won in 2014.
Mrs. B’s Baby Village Day Care was on a frontage road between a mattress wholesaler and a knife outlet. There were six or so babies as regulars and another one or two on weekends when their parents were passing through looking for work. They wouldn’t find work, of course, all the security positions were full, the timber and ore had all been taken under the active-stewardship program, and the closest new start-up industry was the geothermal field hundreds of miles away. Mrs. B didn’t even bother to write those babies’ names down in her book. It was fifteen dollars a day and they had to be in reasonable health. Even so the occasional mischievous illness would arise and empty the place out.
Amount Greece’s ruling Syriza party believes that Germany owes Greece in war reparations:
Americans of both sexes prefer the body odors of people with similar political beliefs.
Tens of thousands of people marched to promote science in cities across the world, and Trump issued an Earth Day statement in which he did not mention climate change.
"It is an interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game to play at a large gathering of one’s acquaintances: to speculate who in a showdown would go Nazi. By now, I think I know. I have gone through the experience many times—in Germany, in Austria, and in France. I have come to know the types: the born Nazis, the Nazis whom democracy itself has created, the certain-to-be fellow-travelers. And I also know those who never, under any conceivable circumstances, would become Nazis."
© 2015 Harper’s Magazine Foundation. April 2017 cover photograph: At the Women’s March on Washington, January 21, 2017 © Benedict Evans/Redux
