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Hard Times

Will America recover under Biden?

Fifty-One Percent

During the Dayton trial there was much discussion about what had happened to William Jennings Bryan. How had a progressive democrat become so illiberal? How did it happen that the…

Election Bias

by Andrew Cockburn,

The new playbook for voter suppression

Constitution in Crisis

by Donna Edwards, Mary Anne Franks, David Law, Lawrence Lessig, Louis Michael Seidman,

Has America’s founding document become the nation’s undoing?

The Crisis of Our Constitution

by Kevin Baker,

Lost in this past electoral season, one of the most vicious and frightening in American history, is how shaky the very foundation of our democracy is. Throughout Trump’s deformation of…

Dissolve Congress

by Jean-Philippe Immarigeon,

A cure for constitutional crisis

Why Vote?

by Kevin Baker,

When your vote counts for nothing

Approve this

by Harper’s Staff,

Ice cream

by Harper’s Staff,

Can Madison Avenue make us love our government?

Edited by Thomas Frank, Donovan Hohn,

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…