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class="index-item"> In 2024 <span>: 5,000,000</span> </h3> <div class="index-tooltip"> <a href="https://harpers.org/archive/2025/03" class="index-meta index-issue"> March 2025 </a> </div> <span class="index-caret"></span> </div> <div class="slide"> <a href="/harpers-index/" class="text-gray"> <span class="index-title">[Harper’s Index]</span> </a> <h3 class="index-item"> Number of states that require annual active-shooter trainings for public elementary schools <span>: 34</span> </h3> <div class="index-tooltip"> <a href="https://harpers.org/archive/2025/03" class="index-meta index-issue"> March 2025 </a> </div> <span class="index-caret"></span> </div> <div class="slide"> <a href="/harpers-index/" class="text-gray"> <span class="index-title">[Harper’s Index]</span> </a> <h3 class="index-item"> For police departments </h3> <div class="index-tooltip"> <a href="https://harpers.org/archive/2025/03" class="index-meta index-issue"> March 2025 </a> </div> <span class="index-caret"></span> </div> <div class="slide"> <a href="/harpers-index/" class="text-gray"> <span class="index-title">[Harper’s Index]</span> </a> <h3 class="index-item"> Percentage decrease since 2019 in the number of school-bus drivers in the United States <span>: 12</span> </h3> <div class="index-tooltip"> <a href="https://harpers.org/archive/2025/03" class="index-meta index-issue"> March 2025 </a> </div> <span class="index-caret"></span> </div> <div class="slide"> <a href="/harpers-index/" class="text-gray"> <span class="index-title">[Harper’s Index]</span> </a> <h3 class="index-item"> Portion of schools that reported having “major difficulties” transporting students in 2024 <span>: 9/10</span> </h3> <div class="index-tooltip"> <a href="https://harpers.org/archive/2025/03" class="index-meta index-issue"> March 2025 </a> </div> <span class="index-caret"></span> </div> <div class="slide"> <a href="/harpers-index/" class="text-gray"> <span class="index-title">[Harper’s Index]</span> </a> <h3 class="index-item"> Chance that an applicant to a 4-year U.S. college will hire an independent admissions consultant this year <span>: 1 in 3</span> </h3> <div class="index-tooltip"> <a href="https://harpers.org/archive/2025/03" class="index-meta index-issue"> March 2025 </a> </div> <span class="index-caret"></span> </div> <div class="slide"> <a href="/harpers-index/" class="text-gray"> <span class="index-title">[Harper’s Index]</span> </a> <h3 class="index-item"> Percentage of non-white Americans who say that U.S. colleges do a very good or excellent job of educating students <span>: 56</span> </h3> <div class="index-tooltip"> <a href="https://harpers.org/archive/2025/03" class="index-meta index-issue"> March 2025 </a> </div> <span class="index-caret"></span> </div> <div class="slide"> <a href="/harpers-index/" class="text-gray"> <span class="index-title">[Harper’s Index]</span> </a> <h3 class="index-item"> Of white Americans who say so <span>: 31</span> </h3> <div class="index-tooltip"> <a href="https://harpers.org/archive/2025/03" class="index-meta index-issue"> March 2025 </a> </div> <span class="index-caret"></span> </div> <div class="slide"> <a href="/harpers-index/" class="text-gray"> <span class="index-title">[Harper’s Index]</span> </a> <h3 class="index-item"> Percentage increase in book sales in the United States over the past year <span>: 1</span> </h3> <div class="index-tooltip"> <a href="https://harpers.org/archive/2025/03" class="index-meta index-issue"> March 2025 </a> </div> <span class="index-caret"></span> </div> <div class="slide"> <a href="/harpers-index/" class="text-gray"> <span class="index-title">[Harper’s Index]</span> </a> <h3 class="index-item"> In Bible sales <span>: 22</span> </h3> <div class="index-tooltip"> <a href="https://harpers.org/archive/2025/03" class="index-meta index-issue"> March 2025 </a> </div> <span class="index-caret"></span> </div> <div class="slide"> <a href="/harpers-index/" class="text-gray"> <span class="index-title">[Harper’s Index]</span> </a> <h3 class="index-item"> Estimated number of square miles of new drylands formed in the past three decades <span>: 2,700,000</span> </h3> <div class="index-tooltip"> <a href="https://harpers.org/archive/2025/03" class="index-meta index-issue"> March 2025 </a> </div> <span class="index-caret"></span> </div> <div class="slide"> <a href="/harpers-index/" class="text-gray"> <span class="index-title">[Harper’s Index]</span> </a> <h3 class="index-item"> Factor by which this exceeds the size of Texas <span>: 10</span> </h3> <div class="index-tooltip"> <a href="https://harpers.org/archive/2025/03" class="index-meta index-issue"> March 2025 </a> </div> <span class="index-caret"></span> </div> <div class="slide"> <a href="/harpers-index/" class="text-gray"> <span class="index-title">[Harper’s Index]</span> </a> <h3 class="index-item"> Percentage of U.S. solar-power capacity growth last year accounted for by Texas <span>: 31</span> </h3> <div class="index-tooltip"> <a href="https://harpers.org/archive/2025/03" class="index-meta index-issue"> March 2025 </a> </div> <span class="index-caret"></span> </div> <div class="slide"> <a href="/harpers-index/" class="text-gray"> <span class="index-title">[Harper’s Index]</span> </a> <h3 class="index-item"> Percentage by which Texas’s new solar-power capacity exceeded California’s last year <span>: 358</span> </h3> <div class="index-tooltip"> <a href="https://harpers.org/archive/2025/03" class="index-meta index-issue"> March 2025 </a> </div> <span class="index-caret"></span> </div> <div class="slide"> <a href="/harpers-index/" class="text-gray"> <span class="index-title">[Harper’s Index]</span> </a> <h3 class="index-item"> Factor by which annual deaths from exposure to cold weather have increased in the United States since 2000 <span>: 3</span> </h3> <div class="index-tooltip"> <a href="https://harpers.org/archive/2025/03" class="index-meta index-issue"> March 2025 </a> </div> <span class="index-caret"></span> </div> <div class="slide"> <a href="/harpers-index/" class="text-gray"> <span class="index-title">[Harper’s Index]</span> </a> <h3 class="index-item"> Projected factor by which the population of homeless people over the age of 65 in U.S. cities will increase by 2030 <span>: 3</span> </h3> <div class="index-tooltip"> <a href="https://harpers.org/archive/2025/03" class="index-meta index-issue"> March 2025 </a> </div> <span class="index-caret"></span> </div> <div class="slide"> <a href="/harpers-index/" class="text-gray"> <span class="index-title">[Harper’s Index]</span> </a> <h3 class="index-item"> Percentage increase since 2010 in divorces among Americans aged 65 and older <span>: 60</span> </h3> <div class="index-tooltip"> <a href="https://harpers.org/archive/2025/03" class="index-meta index-issue"> March 2025 </a> </div> <span class="index-caret"></span> </div> <div class="slide"> <a href="/harpers-index/" class="text-gray"> <span class="index-title">[Harper’s Index]</span> </a> <h3 class="index-item"> In cases of gonorrhea among that cohort <span>: 592</span> </h3> <div class="index-tooltip"> <a href="https://harpers.org/archive/2025/03" class="index-meta index-issue"> March 2025 </a> </div> <span class="index-caret"></span> </div> <div class="slide"> <a href="/harpers-index/" class="text-gray"> <span class="index-title">[Harper’s Index]</span> </a> <h3 class="index-item"> Percentage increase since 2021 in ADHD diagnoses among that cohort <span>: 67</span> </h3> <div class="index-tooltip"> <a href="https://harpers.org/archive/2025/03" class="index-meta index-issue"> March 2025 </a> </div> <span class="index-caret"></span> </div> <div class="slide"> <a href="/harpers-index/" class="text-gray"> <span class="index-title">[Harper’s Index]</span> </a> <h3 class="index-item"> Chance that an American believes they have undiagnosed ADHD <span>: 1 in 4</span> </h3> <div class="index-tooltip"> <a href="https://harpers.org/archive/2025/03" class="index-meta index-issue"> March 2025 </a> </div> <span class="index-caret"></span> </div> <div class="slide"> <a href="/harpers-index/" class="text-gray"> <span class="index-title">[Harper’s Index]</span> </a> <h3 class="index-item"> Chance that they do have ADHD <span>: 1 in 17</span> </h3> <div class="index-tooltip"> <a href="https://harpers.org/archive/2025/03" class="index-meta index-issue"> March 2025 </a> </div> <span class="index-caret"></span> </div> <div class="slide"> <a href="/harpers-index/" class="text-gray"> <span class="index-title">[Harper’s Index]</span> </a> <h3 class="index-item"> Portion of Americans who say that keeping their house clean is harder than working a full-time job <span>: 1/4</span> </h3> <div class="index-tooltip"> <a href="https://harpers.org/archive/2025/03" class="index-meta index-issue"> March 2025 </a> </div> <span class="index-caret"></span> </div> <div class="slide"> <a href="/harpers-index/" 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class="directions-nav"></div> </figure> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-8 offset-md-2"> <div class="slide-text text-center"> <div class="blurb"></div> <div class="subtitle"> <p><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qowz80ziz68zz73zz82zz83zcko6lz76zz82ziehz73zz71zp0z80zz84znmz71zz67zz68zz84znfz82z"><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qowz81zz76zez66zrz68zxgd8z66zz75zz70zuz72zz65zglevz82znz84zgemlz65zz86zqz84z">“</span>The Message,” a photograph by Cig Harvey</span><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qotvoyjz86zz89zaz76zz67ztz73ztneqz90zmk2z122z03z87z1z78z7h8z71z4z89z">, </span><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qowz80ziz68zz73zz82zz83zcko6lz76zz82ziehz73zz71zp0z80zz84znmz71zz67zz68zz84znfz82z">whose book</span><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qowz80ziz68zz73zz82zz83zcko6lz76zz82ziehz73zz71zp0z80zz84znmz71zz67zz68zz84znfz82z"><i> Emerald Drifters </i></span><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qowz80ziz68zz73zz82zz83zcko6lz76zz82ziehz73zz71zp0z80zz84znmz71zz67zz68zz84znfz82z">w</span><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qotvoyjz86zz89zaz76zz67ztz73ztneqz90zmk2z122z03z87z1z78z7h8z71z4z89z">ill be</span><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qowz80ziz68zz73zz82zz83zcko6lz76zz82ziehz73zz71zp0z80zz84znmz71zz67zz68zz84znfz82z"> published this month by Monacelli. </span><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qowz81zz76zez66zrz68zxgd8z66zz75zz70zuz72zz65zglevz82znz84zgemlz65zz86zqz84z">©</span><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qowz80ziz68zz73zz82zz83zcko6lz76zz82ziehz73zz71zp0z80zz84znmz71zz67zz68zz84znfz82z"> Cig Harve</span><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qotvoyjz86zz89zaz76zz67ztz73ztneqz90zmk2z122z03z87z1z78z7h8z71z4z89z">y</span><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qowz80ziz68zz73zz82zz83zcko6lz76zz82ziehz73zz71zp0z80zz84znmz71zz67zz68zz84znfz82z">. </span><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qowz81zz76zez66zrz68zxgd8z66zz75zz70zuz72zz65zglevz82znz84zgemlz65zz86zqz84z">Courtesy</span><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qowz80ziz68zz73zz82zz83zcko6lz76zz82ziehz73zz71zp0z80zz84znmz71zz67zz68zz84znfz82z"> Monacelli</span></p> <p></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="slide"> <figure> <img src="https://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/CDF_The-Evening-Star-scaled.jpg" alt="" class="home-gallery-slide" width="2560" height="1859" /> <div class="directions-nav"></div> </figure> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-8 offset-md-2"> <div class="slide-text text-center"> <div class="blurb"></div> <div class="subtitle"> <p><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qowz81zz76zez66zrz68zxgd8z66zz75zz70zuz72zz65zglevz82znz84zgemlz65zz86zqz84z"><i>The Evening Star, </i></span><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qowz81zz76zez66zrz68zxgd8z66zz75zz70zuz72zz65zglevz82znz84zgemlz65zz86zqz84z">ca. 1</span><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qowz80ziz68zz73zz82zz83zcko6lz76zz82ziehz73zz71zp0z80zz84znmz71zz67zz68zz84znfz82z">8</span><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qowz81zz76zez66zrz68zxgd8z66zz75zz70zuz72zz65zglevz82znz84zgemlz65zz86zqz84z">30</span><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qowz80ziz68zz73zz82zz83zcko6lz76zz82ziehz73zz71zp0z80zz84znmz71zz67zz68zz84znfz82z">, a painting</span><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qowz81zz76zez66zrz68zxgd8z66zz75zz70zuz72zz65zglevz82znz84zgemlz65zz86zqz84z"> by Caspar David Friedrich, whose work is on view through </span><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qowz80ziz68zz73zz82zz83zcko6lz76zz82ziehz73zz71zp0z80zz84znmz71zz67zz68zz84znfz82z">May 11</span><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qowz81zz76zez66zrz68zxgd8z66zz75zz70zuz72zz65zglevz82znz84zgemlz65zz86zqz84z"> at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Courtesy Freies Deutsches Hochstift, Frankfurter Goethe Museum, Frankfurt am Main</span> <span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qowz81zz76zez66zrz68zxgd8z66zz75zz70zuz72zz65zglevz82znz84zgemlz65zz86zqz84z h-lparen">(IV-1950-007)</span><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qowz81zz76zez66zrz68zxgd8z66zz75zz70zuz72zz65zglevz82znz84zgemlz65zz86zqz84z"> </span></p> <p></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="slide"> <figure> <img src="https://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/AFROPEAN-21102024_combined-indesign-coated_uncoated13-scaled.jpg" alt="" class="home-gallery-slide" width="2560" height="1670" /> <div class="directions-nav"></div> </figure> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-8 offset-md-2"> <div class="slide-text text-center"> <div class="blurb"></div> <div class="subtitle"> <p><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qowz81zz76zez66zrz68zxgd8z66zz75zz70zuz72zz65zglevz82znz84zgemlz65zz86zqz84z">A spread from </span><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qowz81zz76zez66zrz68zxgd8z66zz75zz70zuz72zz65zglevz82znz84zgemlz65zz86zqz84z"><i>Afropean: A Journal, </i></span><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qowz81zz76zez66zrz68zxgd8z66zz75zz70zuz72zz65zglevz82znz84zgemlz65zz86zqz84z">by Johny Pitts, which was published in November by </span><span class="attrlink url author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qowz81zz76zez66zrz68zxgd8z66zz75zz70zuz72zz65zglevz82znz84zgemlz65zz86zqz84z"><a class="attrlink" href="https://morelbooks.com/collections/all-books/products/johny-pitts" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" data-target-href="https://morelbooks.com/collections/all-books/products/johny-pitts">MO?REL</a></span><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qowz81zz76zez66zrz68zxgd8z66zz75zz70zuz72zz65zglevz82znz84zgemlz65zz86zqz84z">. Courtesy the artist and MO?REL </span></p> <p></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="slide"> <figure> <img src="https://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/AG_Self-Portrait-‘en-plein-air-4-2020-2024-scaled.jpg" alt="" class="home-gallery-slide" width="2560" height="2198" /> <div class="directions-nav"></div> </figure> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-8 offset-md-2"> <div class="slide-text text-center"> <div class="blurb"></div> <div class="subtitle"> <p><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qotvez70ziz85zxcgz75zz74zz72zz75znsz83zz75zz77z9z71zsz69zhu8lz78zc01z74zz71z"><i>Self-Portrait</i></span><i> </i><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qotvez70ziz85zxcgz75zz74zz72zz75znsz83zz75zz77z9z71zsz69zhu8lz78zc01z74zz71z h-lsquo"><i>‘en</i></span><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qotvez70ziz85zxcgz75zz74zz72zz75znsz83zz75zz77z9z71zsz69zhu8lz78zc01z74zz71z"><i> plein air’ 4</i></span><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qotvez70ziz85zxcgz75zz74zz72zz75znsz83zz75zz77z9z71zsz69zhu8lz78zc01z74zz71z">, a painting by Adrian Ghenie,</span> <span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qotvez70ziz85zxcgz75zz74zz72zz75znsz83zz75zz77z9z71zsz69zhu8lz78zc01z74zz71z">whose work is included in the exhibition TO LIVE IS TO FLY</span><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qotvez70ziz85zxcgz75zz74zz72zz75znsz83zz75zz77z9z71zsz69zhu8lz78zc01z74zz71z"><b>,</b></span> <span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qowz80ziz68zz73zz82zz83zcko6lz76zz82ziehz73zz71zp0z80zz84znmz71zz67zz68zz84znfz82z">which is on view </span><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qotvez70ziz85zxcgz75zz74zz72zz75znsz83zz75zz77z9z71zsz69zhu8lz78zc01z74zz71z">through </span><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qowz80ziz68zz73zz82zz83zcko6lz76zz82ziehz73zz71zp0z80zz84znmz71zz67zz68zz84znfz82z">April 5</span><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qotvez70ziz85zxcgz75zz74zz72zz75znsz83zz75zz77z9z71zsz69zhu8lz78zc01z74zz71z"> at Tim Van Laere Gallery, in Antwerp</span><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qowz80ziz68zz73zz82zz83zcko6lz76zz82ziehz73zz71zp0z80zz84znmz71zz67zz68zz84znfz82z">, </span><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qotvez70ziz85zxcgz75zz74zz72zz75znsz83zz75zz77z9z71zsz69zhu8lz78zc01z74zz71z">Belgium</span><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qowz80ziz68zz73zz82zz83zcko6lz76zz82ziehz73zz71zp0z80zz84znmz71zz67zz68zz84znfz82z">.</span> <span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qowz81zz76zez66zrz68zxgd8z66zz75zz70zuz72zz65zglevz82znz84zgemlz65zz86zqz84z">Courtesy the artist and</span> <span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qotvez70ziz85zxcgz75zz74zz72zz75znsz83zz75zz77z9z71zsz69zhu8lz78zc01z74zz71z">Tim Van Laere Galler</span><span class=" author-d-1gg9uz65z1iz85zgdz68zmqkz84zo2qowz80ziz68zz73zz82zz83zcko6lz76zz82ziehz73zz71zp0z80zz84znmz71zz67zz68zz84znfz82z">y</span></p> <p></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="direction-nav"></div> </div> </div> <div class="col-lg-4"> <aside class="sidebar-home"> <div class="sidebar-ad d-flex justify-content-center justify-content-lg-start mb-0"> <div class="harpers-ad ad-slot-sidebar1">  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1680871268361-0' style='min-width: 300px; min-height: 250px;'> <script> googletag.cmd.push( function () { googletag.display( 'div-gpt-ad-1680871268361-0' ); } ); </script> </div> </div> </div> <div class="component-most-read section-padded padding-half "> <h2 class="heading text-uppercase">Most Read</h2> <div class="related-post most-read-post" data-post-id="291403"> <span class="ac-tax">[Report]</span> <a href="https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machine-liz-pelly-spotify-musicians"> <h3 class="title">The Ghosts in the Machine</h3> </a> <div 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