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Pennsylvania

Dreams gone to rust. The Monongahela Valley mourns for steel

by David Corn,

Heavy metal tease

by Harper’s Staff,

The Agnew clinic

Art by Thomas Eakins,

Americans in limbo

by Michael Harrington,

They're not the "new poor"--yet--but they're losing their grip on the middle class. Downward mobility--the most important sociological development of the 1980s.

Mental cases

by Harper’s Staff,

Meet the new legal doctrine of psychological pollution

The meltdown that didn’t happen

by Howard Morland,

Optimism and inertia at Three Mile Island

A fireside chat

by David Suter,

The best Congressman

by George Jr. Crile,

What do you think a secret is?

by Eleanor Jones,

Doing without

by Pamela Erbe Wiener,

Wraparound

by Joel Katz,