Selections from the December 15, 2020, issue

 COVER/Hal Crowther

America the inscrutable: Trump’s almost gone, but ... 

EDITORIAL 
Give Trump the bum’s rush

GENE NICHOL
History’s election and North Carolina

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

DON ROLLINS 
Four myths and a word of encouragement

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen  
Don’t wait to admit COVID danger from your ICU bed. 

DISPATCHES
Disgruntled Trump suppporters threaten to boycott Georgia Senate runoffs. 
Trump team cuts ties with lawyer who threatens to ‘blow up Georgia’ with ‘Biblical’ lawsuit. 
Aaron Van Langeville has more spine than entire GOP caucus in Congress. 
Trump’s one last effort to cut Social Security. 
Biden urged to clear out Trump loyalists. 
Biden and Dems try to lead while McConnell holds nation hostage.
Obamacare is enrolling and expanding.
Ranking Democrat calls for prosecution of Trump crimes ...

ART CULLEN 
An electoral map awash in red

OLIVIA ALPERSTEIN 
Don’t trash the Affordable Care Act — expand it

JILL RICHARDSON 
Put empathy back in the White House

JOHN YOUNG 
My Joe Biden double fantasy

ROBERT C. KOEHLER
Biden’s mandate is for deep solutions, not donor-class fetishism of bipartisan compromise

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet  
Circular firing squads

TOM CONWAY 
‘They’re holding the whole country hostage’: How Mitch McConnell flouts the will of the American people

RICHARD D. WOLFF  
Why capitalism was destined to come out on top in the 2020 election

NORMAN SOLOMON  
Corporate Democrats are to blame for congressional losses — so naturally they’re blaming progressives

CHUCK COLLINS  
We must protect essential workers from billionaire pandemic profiteers

ROBERTO Dr. CINTLI RODRIGUEZ  
Why the wall must come down

SETH SANDRONSKY 
Report: Race-ing to the bottom

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas  
Pragmatism: the new order mantra

SAM URETSKY 
We don’t have to wait for a vaccine to stop COVID spread

SARAH ANDERSON and MARGOT RATHKE 
Low-income voters showed up for Biden. Now they need relief

WAYNE O’LEARY 
Short-circuiting the judiciary

JOHN BUELL 
The piggybank still has many coins

SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson  
Brother Trump’s cathedral of redemption and golf retreat

BOB BURNETT 
2020 presidential election: Cleaning up loose ends

BOOK REVIEW/Heather Seggel  
Capitalism’s strange fruit

ROB PATTERSON 
Looking back at ‘Mrs. America’

DICK POLMAN 
Trump flunky Rudy is on gravedigging duty

MOVIE REVIEW/Ed Rampell  
New movie musical about 1919 Canadian General Strike takes timely ‘Stand!’

FRANK LINGO 
Trump’s dump: An eco-legacy

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