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Political corruption

Better Safe

Translated by Jess Cotton,

From the October 29, 2012, testimony of Martin Dumont to a Canadian public inquiry into corruption charges against various Montreal city officials. Dumont was an organizer for Union Montréal, the…

The Unraveling of Bo Xilai

by Lauren Hilgers,

China loses a populist star

Team America

by Thomas Frank,

There have been an estimated 16,000 books written about Abraham Lincoln; like the lives of the wealthy and the secrets of self-improvement, a fascination with the Great Emancipator is an…

How to Rig an Election

by Victoria Collier,

The G.O.P. aims to paint the country red

Untitled

Art by William Duke,

The Acme Corporation

by Alec MacGillis,

A town fights back against a big-box coup

Act of contrition

by Thomas Frank,

All the publicist’s men

by Harper’s Staff,

Disappearing Ink

by Matthieu Aikins,

Afghanistan’s sham democracy

Speak, Money

by Roger D. Hodge,

From The Mendacity of Hope: Barack Obama and the Betrayal of American Liberalism (HarperCollins). Hodge is the former editor of Harper’s Magazine. As we prepare yet another round of offerings…

The best and the brightest

Translated by Peter John R. Buchan,