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Economic conditions

The blood king

by Hua Yu,Translated by Allan Hepburn Barr,

Servile disobedience

by Thomas Frank,

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.…

Golden Parachutes and Ladders

Thirty Days as a Cuban

by Patrick Symmes,

Pinching pesos and dropping pounds in Havana

Tea Party in the Sonora

by Ken Silverstein,

For the future of G.O.P. governance, look to Arizona

Nobody’s Detroit

by Philip Levine,

Persian Gulf view

by Shahan Mufti,

House hunting and geopolitics in Baluchistan

The silver lining

by Sam Shaw,

How you can profit from the coming monetary apocalypse!

Shopping for Sweat

by Ken Silverstein,

The human cost of a two-dollar T-shirt

Voodoo Academics

by Christopher Beha,

Brandeis University's hard lesson in the real economy