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Democracy 101

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Mark Twain's farewell address

Supernumerary

by Christopher Beha,

Onstage with the People’s Opera

A pilgrimage of sin

by Lawrence Osborne,

Booze, bombs, and hookers in Islamic Thailand

Tiny Little Laws

by Kathy Dobie,

A plague of sexual violence in Indian country

Like butterflies in the jungle

by Damon Tabor,

The quest for the new El Dorado

Approve this

by Harper’s Staff,

America

by Harper’s Staff,

Fantasy

by Harper’s Staff,

Ice cream

by Harper’s Staff,

Can Madison Avenue make us love our government?

Edited by Thomas Frank, Donovan Hohn,

A shtetl divided

by Matthew Shaer,

Messianic vigilantes, brawling Hasidim, and the battle for Jewish Brooklyn

Keeping watch

by Lynn Freed,

The South African past as prologue

The enveloping air

by John Berger,

Light and moment in Monet

Disappearing Ink

by Matthieu Aikins,

Afghanistan’s sham democracy

The drunk’s club

by Clancy Martin,

A.A., the cult that cures

A year of birds

by Annie Proulx,

At home on the North Platte River

Which way madness lies

by Rachel Aviv,

Can psychosis be prevented?

A Good Death

by William T. Vollmann,

Exit strategies

Southern culture on the skids

by Ben Austen,

Racetracks, rebels, and the decline of NASCAR

Thirty Days as a Cuban

by Patrick Symmes,

Pinching pesos and dropping pounds in Havana

American Electra

by Susan Faludi,

Feminism's ritual matricide

Paralyzed

by Roxana Robinson,

Learning to live in polio's shadow

Weapons of mass distraction

by Daniel Fromson,

Object lessons from the cyber-mythology

The war on unhappiness

by Gary Greenberg,

Goodbye Freud, hello positive thinking

Cinema Crudité

by Tom Bissell,

The mysterious appeal of the post-camp cult film

Barack and Hamid’s excellent adventure

by David Samuels,

Afghanistan's president visits the White House

The system of defecting

by Suki Kim,

Stories from the North Korean border

Tea Party in the Sonora

by Ken Silverstein,

For the future of G.O.P. governance, look to Arizona

The food bubble

by Frederick Kaufman,

How Wall Street starved millions and got away with it

All that glitters

by Clancy Martin,

An ex-jeweler reveals the art of the swindle

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