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[Essay] In the Running

The trials of an almost candidate

by Sarah Smarsh,

November 2022

Current Issue November 2022

[Criticism] Some Like It Hot

Notes from the Marilyn Appreciation Society

by Sophie Lewis,

[Letter from Washington] Party Walls

Walter Karp’s enduring view of the establishment

by Andrew Cockburn,

[Harper’s Index]

Portion of American men who believe they will run out of money after retiring : 2/3

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Of American women who do : 4/5

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Average minimum salary that U.S. men say they are willing to accept when offered a new job : $86,259

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That U.S. women say they are willing to accept : $59,543

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Portion of Americans who quit their last job who do not regret it : 3/4

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Factor by which the net worth of married couples aged 25 to 34 is greater than that of single households of the same age : 9

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Factor by which this disparity has increased since 2010 : 2

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Portion of Americans who plan to buy a home in the event of a housing market crash : 3/4

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Percentage of Gen Z-ers who say they want the housing market to crash so they can purchase a home : 84

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Portion of Gen Z-ers who plan to live at home with relatives long-term : 3/10

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Percentage by which Gen Z-ers are saving more of their income than their parents : 17

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Average cost of an abortion in the United States : $606

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Of giving birth : $13,393

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Percentage change this year in American adults who say they are “thriving” : –14

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Who say they are “suffering” : +100

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Estimated age at which adults are unhappiest : 48

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Portion of Americans who say political divisions have worsened since Joe Biden took office : 2/3

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Who would prefer an alternative to the electoral college system : 3/5

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Percentage of U.S. adults who consume “severely problematic” amounts of news : 17

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Factor by which these individuals are more likely to have a serious mental illness : 9

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By which they are more likely to have a serious physical illness : 10

[Harper’s Index]

Portion of Americans aged 18 to 34 who have at least one chronic health condition : 1/2

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Who have at least two : 1/4

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Percentage increase since 2019 in the number of children who are unvaccinated against polio : 35

[Harper’s Index]

Minimum percentage of Facebook and Instagram content that comes from accounts a user does not follow : 15

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Minimum factor by which this is projected to increase next year : 2

[Harper’s Index]

Percentage decrease since 2014 in the number of U.S. teenagers who use Facebook : 55

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Percentage by which black teenagers are more likely than white ones to say they use the internet “almost constantly” : 51

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Percentage change in total sales of smartphones this year : –8

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In sales of smartphones that cost more than $900 : +25

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Average age at which parents say they intend to give their child a smartphone : 13

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At which they actually do : 10

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Percentage of the top twenty-five box office hits of 1981 that were sequels, spin-offs, or remakes : 16

[Harper’s Index]

Of 2019 : 80

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Minimum number of countries in which euthanasia is legal : 7

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Percentage increase last year in deaths by euthanasia in Canada : 32

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Percentage decrease since 2010 in the number of philosophy majors at U.S. colleges : 14

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In the number of English majors : 33

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Religion majors : 41

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Monday Gallery

“Earthly Bodies, 2021”

“Earthly Bodies, 2021,” a collage by Justine Kurland, from her monograph SCUMB Manifesto, which was published in May by MACK.

© The artist. Courtesy MACK

Past Issues

Harper’s Finest

[Article] from the November 1992 Issue

She’s Come for an Abortion. What Do You Say?

by Jessica Mitford

“You are twenty-one—exactly the same age I was when I had my one and only abortion, in London in 1938. This was way before anyone talked about the ‘right’ to an abortion, and I want to tell you my story to convey how precious a right it is. Abortions then were totally illegal; the very subject was taboo among the well-brought-up English of those days. I wouldn’t have dreamed of consulting anybody in my family, from whom I was estranged and who anyway wouldn’t have been likely to have useful ideas on the subject.”

SARS was found in tears.

A psycholinguistic analysis of posts on Twitter and Weibo during COVID-19 lockdowns found that residents of Lombardy grew increasingly focused on leisure and residents of Wuhan grew increasingly focused on religion.

Convalescent plasma helps Syrian hamsters fight SARS-CoV-2.

Falling levels of tourist trash during pandemic lockdowns was found to have caused rat infighting, and macaques were reported to have attacked a lab assistant in Delhi and stolen vials of COVID-19-infected blood, which at least one monkey then tried to eat.

The World Health Organization warned that SARS will probably return this winter.