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Dreaming XXL

by Jake Austen,

For the African-American market, bootleg shirts stretch Obama's image

Useful amateurs

by Ken Silverstein,

How the smearing of Barack Obama got crowd-sourced

Death and the Maiden

by Mark Greif,

Creative destruction

by Roger D. Hodge,

Obama’s Jews

by Bernard Avishai,

Last May, as he claimed the Democratic nomination, Barack Obama was ahead among Jewish voters 2 to 1. Yet, according to cable-and-blog wisdom, that was a serious problem for him.…

High Noon for the Republican Party

by Kevin Baker, Scott McConnell, Kevin Phillips, Thomas F. Schaller, Luke Mitchell,

Why the G.O.P. must die

My Lobby, Myself

by Ken Silverstein,

How John McCain’s hypocrisy is laundered as reform

A conspiracy of dunces

by Harper’s Staff,

Not What It Takes

by David Gargill,

Running for president on less than $2,000 a day

Dictator’s Cut

by Elham Rajabpur,

From “Oliver Stone’s Presence in Iran: Opportunity or Threat?” by Elham Rajabpur, published December 3 in the Iranian daily Keyhan News. Translated from the Farsi by the Open Source Center,…

Hearts of gold

by Lewis H. Lapham,