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New York (State)

The Albany handshake

Lulus, do-nothings, and the machinery of the state

Flatfoot agonistes

Inside the police-entertainment complex

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…

The Intelligence Factory

by Petra Bartosiewicz,

How America makes its enemies disappear

Like I Was Jesus

by Rachel Aviv,

How to bring a nine-year-old to Christ

Bench, Queens, 2008

by Will Steacy,

The Bernality of Evil

by Harper’s Staff,

No more whorehouses

by Nelson Algren,

Bearing Arms

by Benjamin Busch,

The serious boy at war

You didn’t have to shoot the kid

by Harper’s Staff,

Ill NiÃ±o/Irving Plaza

by Georgi Tushev,