Friday, August 14, 2020

Selections from the September 1, 2020, issue

 COVER/Tom Conway 

A stronger labor movement is essential to fixing America’s unjust economy

EDITORIAL
Trump’s COVID relief con


LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

DON ROLLINS
Black preachers, then and now

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Schools reopening despite risks

DISPATCHES
Krugman: Trump exec orders are ‘hydroxychloroquine of economic policy.’
Trump tells states to restrict food assistance. 
Shortened census may shortchange marginalized communities for decades.
Lawmakers demand removal of new postmaster general over attempts to dismantle Postal Service. 
Trump: executive order on pre-existing is ‘a signal.’
Missouri is sixth state to expand Medicaid at ballot box.
Business owners call for increase in minimum wage.
Russia working to defeat Biden; China and Iran prefer Trump defeat.
Republican senators may be using Russian disinformation to smear Biden ...


ART CULLEN
Trump’s goose is cooked in the Midwest

JIM GOODMAN
We can’t deny our history — can it guide us to become anti-racist? 


JILL RICHARDSON
Happy 30th birthday, ADA. What’s next?


BOOK REVIEW/James McCarty Yeager
Journeys and gender


SETH SANDRONSKY
Rethinking fed lending to get help to working families

NANCY J. ALTMAN
On Medicare and Medicaid’s 55th birthday, let’s expand benefits — not cut them


JOHN YOUNG
Face coverings and ‘cancel culture’


ROBERTO Dr. CINTLI RODRIGUEZ
50 Years later: A state of war or a permanent state of insurrection?

BOB BURNETT
Plagued by two viruses

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Notes on John Lewis

FRANK LINGO
Keep gun laws in focus for 2020

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
The uninsured, redux

SAM URETSKY
A good mask is nothing to sneeze at

SOPHIA PASLASKI
The Supreme Court just made the case for Medicare for All

WAYNE O’LEARY
The pandemic’s winners and losers

JOHN BUELL
Why are Republicans self-destructing?

DAVID SCHMIDT 
Choosing when to give a s**t: Controversial language and the Trader Joe’s boycott

N. GUNASEKARAN
Neoliberalism failed; state activism needed to save people from crisis


GENE NICHOL 
Republican truth in advertising

BOOK REVIEW/Heather Seggel
The mess of life

ROB PATTERSON
Recording The Beatles

MARK ANDERSON
Small change is a big problem in the pandemic economy

MOVIE REVIEW/Ed Rampell
The ACLU’s fight for Constitutional Rights


SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson 
In the swamp where it happened

and more ...


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