Selections from the February 15, 2020 issue

COVER/Maanyi Singh
Water crisis in cities worsens already terrible inequality

EDITORIAL
No time for Democratic schism

FRANK LINGO
Interview with Lucifer

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

DON ROLLINS
State republicans and their comfort zones

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen 
Genetically modified impossible burgers are trouble

DISPATCHES
The last thing Republicans want is a fair trial on impeachment;
Expert: Ga. election server showed signs of tampering;
Moscow Mitch blows off latest Russian hacking news, says we’ve done enough to protect the election;
Medicare for All is not a pipe dream;
Inflation adjusted wages rose 0% in 2019, 51% got no raises;
Vast majority of Americans say US economic system unfiarly benefits the powerful;
Sciff says NSA, CIA withhold documents from Congress, including those relevant to impeachment;
Trump legal team: what happens 'when you don't pay your legal bills':
Food & Water Action says US=Mexico-Canada Agreement is bad for climate and food safety;
Lev Parnas worked his way into Trump's world — and is now rattling it ...

ART CULLEN
Iowa says we’ll let you know when we decide

BEN LILLISTON
Cory Booker’s halt on factory farms would help the climate

JILL RICHARDSON
Why do we have school lunch debt at all?

JOHN YOUNG
Standing around oblivious to flames

MARK ANDERSON 
As the wells run dry, so does democracy

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet 
Assassination nation

JOEL D. JOSEPH
President Trump’s appointment of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner violates federal law

BOB BURNETT
2000-2019: What hath the internet wrought?

ROGER BYBEE
Centrist dems, pundits use insurers’ key words against Medicare for All

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas 
Think locally: The health mantra for 2020

SAM URETSKY
Issues will drive the democratic vote

SAM PIZZIGATI
Are America’s rich getting tired of winning?

WAYNE O’LEARY
Here’s to your health (or not)

JOHN BUELL
Financing post secondary education — for all

SETH SANDRONSKY
Job quality index says economy has a way to go

JOSEPH B. ATKINS
US interference in foreign affairs is business as usual

BOOK REVIEW/Heather Seggel
Let the bodies hit the floor

ROB PATTERSON  Well-told detective tales

GENE NICHOL
A broken university

MOVIE REVIEW/Ed Rampell 
Estranged bedfellows: What the FOX is going on? 

SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson 
So long, dear dotard

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