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Gangs of Karachi

Meet the mobsters who run the show in one of the world’s deadliest cities

You’re a Mean One, Mr. Klig

From an exchange of letters and emails between Steven Klig, a Long Island attorney, and an FBI agent posing as his ex-girlfriend. In October, Klig began blackmailing the woman, whose…

Foundering father

by Alexander Hamilton,Edited by Lewis H. Lapham,

A 1797 confession of adultery

The weed of crime bears . . . bitter fruit

by Norman Schreiber,

The high cost of hoodlums

by John Gunther,

Too much of a success

by Harper’s Staff,

Sorcerers’ work

by Norman Duncan,

A settlement

by Harper’s Staff,

Pinto Bill as a publisher

by Frank A. Parker,

Played to the end

“He was always such a fool”

by J.D. (James Davenport) Whelpley,