2004 Archives

2004

A Monopoly of Violence

From “Contract Killers,” which appeared in the June 2004 issue of Harper’s Magazine. The complete article—along with the magazine’s entire 173-year archive—is available online at harpers.org/archive. A small group of…

Fugue State

by Sarah A. Topol,

The struggle for national identity in wartime Ukraine

The $50,000 question

by Harper’s Staff,

None Dare Call it Stolen

by Mark Crispin Miller,

Ohio, the election, and America’s servile press

Bird-dogging the Bush Vote

by Wells Tower,

Undercover with Florida's Republican shock troops

Patriot game

by Harper’s Staff,

Pilgrims of hope

by Lewis H. Lapham,

True blue

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Our Friend the Smear

by Bill Wasik,

Notes on the origin of specious

The African-American arts

by Seth Ackerman,

Attempts this year to suppress the black vote would not be the first

No appeal

by Ronnie Dugger,

With a third of the votes unrecountable, another Florida could happen anywhere