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Politics and government

The dimpled chad

by Lewis H. Lapham,

A new book doesn't prove what the CIA thinks it proves about the agency's performance at the end of the Cold War

by Denis Johnson,

Searching for Charles Taylor in a Liberian civil war

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Ralph Nader campaigns for president with a course in civics

by James S. Bowman,

Is our notion of the founding fathers' "characters" relevant material for history?

How I learned to stop worrying and love the Blob

by Cecelia Holland,

by Harper’s Staff,

by Thomas Frank,

Rebranding Britain with American quackery

by Jeffrey Tayler,