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Shadow of a Doubt

by Andrew Kay,

How OCD came to haunt American life

Crime and Punishment

by Ras Baraka, Rosa Brooks, Barry Friedman, Christy E. Lopez, Tracey L. Meares, Brian O’Hara, Patrick Sharkey,

Can American policing be fixed?

From “What’s Wrong with the Right People?,” which appeared in the June 1929 issue of Harper’s Magazine. The complete article—along with the magazine’s entire 173-year archive—is available online at harpers.org/archive.…

Mists of Wish and Dream

by Lewis H. Lapham,

From the Editor’s Notebook that appeared in the June 1988 issue of Harper’s Magazine. The complete article—along with the magazine’s entire 173-year archive—is available online at harpers.org/archive. The news from…

Friends Like These

From resolutions passed by the United Nations General Assembly since 1982 for which the United States and Israel were the only two member states, of more than 150 nations, to…

Courting Disaster

by Ian MacDougall,

Why liberals should give up on the judiciary

Private Matters

by Paul Bender,

It is often said that our Constitution is alive. As the Supreme Court reinterprets the law in different eras, our rights both grow and diminish—sometimes with glacial slowness, sometimes with…