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Click-through to find out the story behind this week’s cover “The Cloud” by Bob Staake, and for a slideshow of our previous Innovators Issue covers: http://nyr.kr/K6gxMH

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We asked Chris Ware, who drew this week’s cover, “Mother’s Day,” to discuss the New Yorker covers that inspired him.

Since I draw more or less like a robot, it’s good to have something human to inspire me every once in a while. While I dutifully admire the manly, punchy gags of Peter Arno and Charles Addams, the “old school” New Yorker cover artists I think most about are actually all women. Ilonka Karasz’s bucolic diorama-like vistas and the unapologetic warm sentiment of Edna Eicke stir up fond memories of childhood with a tactile power truly unusual for drawings intended only for print.

See the past covers that have inspired Ware and his commentary here.

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In This Week’s Issue:

Evan Osnos (Comment) on China’s crisis; James Surowiecki on why long-term unemployment hurts us all; Ken Auletta on whether Stanford and Silicon Valley will transform education; Fiction from Ian McEwan; Jake Halpern on the discovery of treasure worth billions of dollars in India’s Sri Padmanabhaswamy temple; and more

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In This Week’s Journeys Issue

Margaret Talbot (Comment) on Republicans, “Girls,” and Sexual Freedom; James Surowiecki on the rise of medical tourism; After joining CouchSurfing.org, Patricia Marx couch-surfs the world; Lauren Collins travels to Poreč, Croatia with British holidaymakers; Daniel Mendelsohn on why we can’t let go of the Titanic; and more.

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In This Week’s Issue

Jeffrey Toobin (Comment) on the Supreme Court’s contempt for Congress; Evan Osnos on why Las Vegas is moving to Macau; Fiction from Jonathan Lethem: “The Porn Critic”; Elizabeth Kolbert on the debate over whether procreation is immoral; Shouts & Murmurs from Paul Rudnick; and more. 

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In This Week’s Issue

David Sedaris on socialized medicine in the heart of Old Europe; Lauren Collins on how the Daily Mail conquered England; Ben McGrath on New York’s reaction to the Tim Tebow trade; Elizabeth Kolbert on President Obama, gas prices, and global warming; and more.

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Inside the Style Issue

Judith Thurman on the Prada and Schiaparelli joint retrospective at the Met; Shouts & Murmurs by Paul Rudnick; Jeffrey Toobin on the wrong argument on health-care reform; John Cassidy on Obama’s missed opportunities; Jonah Lehrer on the man who remade Vegas; and more.

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In This Week’s Issue

Ezra Klein on how making a good speech can actually keep a President from reaching his goals; James Surowiecki gives two reasons for why the recovery may start gathering speed; Louis Menand on the lessons of Mitt Romney’s business career; Emily Nussbaum on the art of the dirtbag sitcom; and more.

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In This Week’s Issue

David Remnick on Israel and democracy; Ryan Lizza on whether the G.O.P. can save itself; Dhalia Lithwick on the story of Lawrence v. Texas; Anthony Lane reviews “Friends with Kids” and “Attenberg”; and more.

For the story behind this week’s cover - “From State to State” by Bob Staake: http://nyr.kr/xZFkOf

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In This Week’s Issue

Hendrik Hertzberg on the Romney-Santorum showdown; James Surowiecki on Jeremy Lin, Mitt Romney, and the advantage of good looks; Nick Paumgarten covers the World Economic Forum at Davos; Emily Nussbaum reviews “The Good Wife”; and more