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In the Loop

by Ben Austen,

Obama's hometown takes Washington

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Art by Ray Bartkus,

The vanishing liberal

by Kevin Baker,

How the left learned to be helpless

The mendacity of hope

by Roger D. Hodge,

Understanding Obamacare

by Luke Mitchell,

The idea that there is a competitive “private sector” in America is appealing, but generally false. No one hates competition more than the managers of corporations. Competition does not enhance…

The War We Can’t Win

by Andrew J. Bacevich,

By Andrew J. Bacevich, in the August 15 issue of Commonweal. Bacevich is a professor of international relations at Boston University and the author, most recently, of The Limits of…

Weeping in Tehran

by Harper’s Staff,

Scenes from the uprising

Labor’s Last Stand

by Ken Silverstein,

The corporate campaign to kill the Employee Free Choice Act

Barack Hoover Obama

by Kevin Baker,

The best and the brightest blow it again

Obamandela

by Breyten Breytenbach,

From a lecture delivered in January at the Gorée Institute, in Senegal. Breytenbach’s essay “Mandela’s Smile” appeared in the December 2008 issue of Harper’s Magazine. First it was the voice. It…

Achievetrons

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Few men are so disinterested as to prefer to live in discomfort under a government which they hold to be right, rather than in comfort under one which they hold to be…