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A Monopoly of Violence

From “Contract Killers,” which appeared in the June 2004 issue of Harper’s Magazine. The complete article—along with the magazine’s entire 173-year archive—is available online at harpers.org/archive. A small group of…

Before the Deluge

by Petra Bartosiewicz,

How Washington sealed Puerto Rico’s fate

Iowa City, Iowa

by Marilynne Robinson,

Like the country as a whole, Iowa has a Republican chief executive and a Republican-controlled legislature that creates problems where they need not exist, problems that look like the effects…

“Don’t Touch My Medicare!”

by Trudy Lieberman,

Is the beloved program on its last legs?

How to Rig an Election

by Victoria Collier,

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

Broken Britain

by Ed Vulliamy,

Nothing is left of the family silver

Castro’s List

Translated by Wes Enzinna,

From a list of 178 private-sector jobs legalized by the Cuban government following the layoff of half a million state workers in September. Translated from the Spanish by Wes Enzinna.…

Too Big to Burn

by McKenzie Funk,

AIG plays God in a man-made firestorm

Developmentally disabled

by Ken Silverstein,

Why foreign aid to Afghanistan stays in America

Contract with America

by Daphne Eviatar,

Hard terms for the soldier of fortune

Disaster Capitalism

by Naomi Klein,

The new economy of catastrophe