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Bureaucracy

Rage Against the Machine
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Trump’s second attempt at dismantling the bureaucracy

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The Bureaucratic Sublime
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From “Brains in Washington,” which appeared in the March 1936 issue of Harper’s Magazine. The complete article—along with the magazine’s entire 174-year archive—is available online at harpers.org/archive. No news from…

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After the Deluge
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A small town faces down climate disaster

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Power Failure
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The unseen obstacles to progressive reform

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Lord of the Files
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By Alexander Zinoviev, from Homo Sovieticus, a novel that was originally published in 1985 and is included in Boredom, an anthology that was published in January by M.I.T. Press and…

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Highly Ineffective People

From the Simple Sabotage Field Manual, published in 1944 by the U.S. Office of Strategic Services. The manual, which was declassified in 2008, was intended for distribution to citizens of enemy…

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In Regulation Nation
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By David Graeber, from The Utopia of Rules, published last month by Melville House. Graeber is the author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years. His most recent article for Harper’s…

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Our home and native brand
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Meet the new boss, same as the old boss
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How Poland's nomenklatura learned to love capitalism

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Can the Russians Reform?
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The Soviet economy: prospects for change

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Asphalt jungle
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