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[Report] The Big Tech Extortion Racket

How Google, Amazon, and Facebook control our lives

by Barry C. Lynn

September 2020

Current Issue September 2020

[Memoir] A Litany for Survival

Giving birth as a black woman in America

by Naomi Jackson

[Letter from Washington] Elder Abuse

Nursing homes, the coronavirus, and the bottom line

by Andrew Cockburn

[Harper’s Index]

Minimum amount the U.S. government spent funding anti–Hugo Chávez rock songs while he led Venezuela : $22,970

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Rank of 2019 among years with the highest worldwide spending on nuclear weapons : 1

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Percentage by which the United States spent more than the second-highest spender : 70

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Number of National Guard members on active duty in the United States on June 1, 2020 : 66,700

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On active duty abroad on the same day : 28,300

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Minimum number of cities in which the Department of Homeland Security has used aerial surveillance at protests this year : 15

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Minimum hours of surveillance footage that it has logged : 270

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Number of police departments in the twenty largest U.S. cities whose use-of-force policies meet UN human-rights standards

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Total value of surplus military equipment distributed to U.S. police departments under the Trump Administration : $964,962,803

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Of bayonets : $19,761

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Of “extreme cold-weather parkas” distributed to the LAPD : $27,161

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Minimum number of police killings since 2010 in which restrained victims told officers they couldn’t breathe : 32

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Number of those incidents that resulted in criminal charges against the officers : 5

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Number of those cases in which charges were not eventually dropped : 2

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Percentage of time on duty that U.S. police officers devote to violent crime : 4

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To noncriminal complaints : 35

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Number of leading U.S. state health officials who have resigned, retired, or been fired during the COVID-19 pandemic : 34

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Number of coronavirus-related academic studies that have been retracted since the outbreak : 22

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Estimated months of education progress, on average, expected to be lost by K-12 students who began remote learning this year : 7

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Percentage of U.S. rural school districts that did not require any instruction after schools closed : 53

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Percentage of city-dwelling Americans who have considered moving somewhere less dense since the pandemic began : 39

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Portion of Americans aged 18 to 29 who have moved because of the coronavirus : 1/10

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Percentage increase since February in the number of American Jews who have applied to emigrate to Israel : 64

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Chance that a Canadian sees the United States as “unfriendly” or “an enemy” : 1 in 5

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Estimated amount that the United States will lose this year in tourism revenue : $550,000,000,000

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That the United States will lose even if all Americans’ tourist dollars are spent domestically : $52,000,000,000

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That China will gain if its tourist dollars are spent domestically : $238,000,000,000

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Amount per traveler by which Japan plans on subsidizing domestic vacations as part of economic recovery efforts : $187

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Amount that a tourist to Iceland can pay to skip a government-mandated COVID-19 quarantine protocol : $65

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Minimum number of U.S. climate-change infrastructure projects that have been delayed or canceled because of COVID-19 : 13

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Portion of Europeans aged 16 to 29 who think authoritarian states are better equipped to handle climate change than democracies : 1/2

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Portion of people living in democracies who believe their governments are not democratic : 2/5

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Percentage of transgender Americans who don’t have the identification required to vote : 42

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Percentage of registered Democrats who believe that voting by mail increases the risk of voter fraud : 21

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Of registered Republicans : 69

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Average number of times per day that Donald Trump tweeted in 2017 : 7

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In 2020 : 32

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Percentage of Americans who want Trump to tweet more frequently : 3

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Rank of May 29–June 4 among weeks that researchers determined to be the “saddest” on Twitter : 1

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Minimum number of seafarers who have been stranded offshore since pandemic lockdown measures began : 200,000

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Monday Gallery

Floater 24

Floater 24, a mixed-media artwork by Derrick Adams, whose work is on view through October 18 at the Hudson River Museum, in Yonkers, New York.

© The artist. Courtesy Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York, and the Collection of Beth Rudin DeWoody

Past Issues

Harper’s Finest

[Article] from the March 2003 Issue

Jesus Plus Nothing

by Jeff Sharlet

At Ivanwald, men learn to be leaders by loving their leaders. “They’re so busy loving us,” a brother once explained to me, “but who’s loving them?” We were. The brothers each paid $400 per month for room and board, but we were also the caretakers of The Cedars, cleaning its gutters, mowing its lawns, whacking weeds and blowing leaves and sanding. And we were called to serve on Tuesday mornings, when The Cedars hosted a regular prayer breakfast typically presided over by Ed Meese, the former attorney general. Each week the breakfast brought together a rotating group of ambassadors, businessmen, and American politicians. Three of Ivanwald’s brothers also attended, wearing crisp shirts starched just for the occasion; one would sit at the table while the other two poured coffee.

The sperm of mallards with more colorful bills has stronger antibacterial properties.

Psychologist Spike Lee found that telling harmful lies makes people desire mouthwash, whereas writing harmful lies makes people desire hand sanitizer.

NASA had failed to sufficiently sanitize planetary probes to avoid the invasion of alien environments by Earth life.

Humans absorb large amounts of bisphenol A by handling cash-register receipts after using hand sanitizer, and larger amounts if they then eat french fries.