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November/December 2020


Available only in the print edition:


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    The Bankruptcy Games

    Bill Barclay

    Private equity cashes in on the Covid-19 slump. | Order this issue or subscribe.

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    If You Like Piña Coladas...

    ALFREDO R. M. Rosete

    A movement of peasants and farmworkers aims to disrupt the long-standing political economy of fruit, sugar, and agriculture in the Philippines. | Order this issue or subscribe.

the regulars


  • editors’ note They Disappoint; We Organize
  • the short run
  • cartoon How Bosses Try to Beat the Union: North Pole Edition
  • in review Mary Filippo, “My Miseducation in 3 Graphs,”; Joss Sheldon, Democracy: A User’s Guide