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Freedom of Information Act

A Monopoly of Violence

by Nicholas Von Hoffman,

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…

Burn After Eating

From responses to Freedom of Information Act requests regarding internal discussions about the food served at various government agencies and organizations. The documents, from between 2015 and 2020, were published…

Pandora’s box

by Jim Hougan,

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