Selections from the April 15, 2020 issue

COVER/Marshall Auerback 
What will the post-coronavirus global economy look like?

EDITORIAL
Trump botches virus response

WENDELL POTTER
Coronavirus pandemic reveals just how devastating the greed of for-profit insurance has become

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

DON ROLLINS
Pastors as politicians

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Build strength close to home

DISPATCHES
Affordable Care Act marks 10th birthday in Trump’s pandemic;
Hospitals scramble to face COVID-19, FEMA can’t say how many masks are on the way;
Hospitals fear there aren’t enough ventilators for COVID patients;
Democratic voe still like Medicare for All;
Democratic voters still like Medicare for All;
Trump gets a boost in polls, but why?
White nationalists seek to weaponize COVID-19 pandemic;
Thinking outside the box: Giving Steven Mnuchin a $500 billion debit card;
Maybe don't give William Barr the power to take a chainsaw to habeas corpus;
Climate and policy experts call for green stimulus bill to put Americans back to work;
Child abuse cases increase;
Ky. legislature rushes stricter voter ID bill through lege ...

ART CULLEN
Time to think our way out of our ills

JIM GOODMAN
Vote your heart

JILL RICHARDSON
We’re all in this together

JOSEPH B. ATKINS
The establishment fights back against Sanders

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Vulnerable and forgotten: The homeless and COVID-19

TOM CONWAY
OSHA needs a prescription for safety

JOHN YOUNG
Open a window, America

ROBERTO DR. CINTLI RODRIGUEZ
When a virus and virulent racial supremacy collide

MICHAEL WINSHIP
Trump’s brand is chaos

GENE NICHOL
We’re off

SAM PIZZIGATI and SARAH ANDERSON
Coronavirus and the ‘shock doctrine’

DICK POLMAN
Churchill vs. Vaudeville: Who would you prefer in a crisis? 

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Lessons from the Twilight Zone: Feds need to back up state and local governments

SAM URETSKY
Barring the door against coronavirus 

FRANK LINGO
There’s more than corona out there

WAYNE O’LEARY
Back to politics as usual

JOHN BUELL
COVID-19 and the real Italian lesson

SETH SANDRONSKY
Reclaiming vacant homes

DAVID J. SCHMIDT
Marching against oblivion: International Women’s Day in Mexico City

BOOK REVIEW/Heather Seggel
On diversity

ROB PATTERSON
Legacy music

BOB BURNETT
Joe Biden: Pro and con

MOVIE REVIEW/Ed Rampell
The day of the hunters: Must we burn Blumhouse? 

SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson
Time Magazine’s Person of the Year

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