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Privatization

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

Mall of America

by Daniel Brook ,

The architecture of our privatized government