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Appropriations and expenditures

The $10 trillion hangover

by Linda J. Bilmes, Joseph E. Stiglitz,

Paying the price for eight years of Bush

America, I’ve Given You All

Why I Pay My Taxes

by Ben Metcalf,

And when they were come to Capernaum, they that received tribute money came to Peter, and said, Doth not your master pay tribute? He saith, Yes. And when he was…

Out of control

by Celia Farber,

AIDS and the corruption of medical science

The great American pork barrel

by Ken Silverstein,

Washington streamlines the means of corruption

The iceberg cometh

by Peter G. Peterson,Edited by Lewis H. Lapham,

Can a nation of spenders be saved?

The Passion of the Rumsfeld

by Wayne Biddle,

Congress stages an ordeal by rubber stamp

The Cost of Conquest

by Harper’s Staff,

From the “Special Estimate of Funds required for the service of the Indian Department within the present fiscal year, ending 30th June, 1851,” submitted to Congress November 7th, 1850, by…

Massachusetts miracle

by Harper’s Staff,

The sham of saving social security first

by Robert B. Reich,

Kremlin square-off

by L. ëIìA Rokhlin,