Selections from the January 1-15, 2021 issue

 COVER/Ava Kofman 

Trapped inside an assisted living facility during the pandemic: ‘We don’t even know who is dead or alive’

EDITORIAL
Biden’s Cabinet choices

FRANK LINGO 
Trump leaves EPA sabotaged

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

DON ROLLINS
Bet the old gray mule: Trump won’t go away

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen  
Time for the grown-ups to take charge

DISPATCHES 
Giuliani’s COVID infection may shut down legislatures in three states. 
Trump loses Georgia for the third time. 
Possible movement on pandemic stimulus in Congress. 
Trump gangs bring guns, threats to ‘Stop the Steal’ protests.
Repubs move to stymie Biden at FCC.
Trump failed to secure enough Pfizer vaccines.
Two Trump henchmen named to Pentagon advisory board ....

ART CULLEN 
Ok. You have a cellphone. But are you really better off?

SARAH ANDERSON and MARGOT RATHKE
Biden could cancel student debt. Will he? 

JILL RICHARDSON 
We need a safety net for parents

JOHN YOUNG
Free to pray, free to spray?

TOM CONWAY 
How Americans can help frontline workers battling COVID-19

JOHN GEYMAN, M.D.  
Trump’s fantasy about COVID-19 keeps killing Americans. What can be done?

NANCY J. ALTMAN and LINDA BENENSCH 
Social Security: Something to give thanks for in 2020

SAM PIZZIGATI 
The rich are cheering Wall Street’s latest records. Americans of modest means are draining 401(k)s

ROBERTO Dr. CINTLI RODRIGUEZ  
An open letter to Spain

SETH SANDRONSKY 
Seeing hillbillies

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas  
Scientists: A breed to nurture

SAM URETSKY 
Biden may have trouble putting the house divided back together again

JOEL D. JOSEPH 
How President Biden can convert Trump voters

WAYNE O’LEARY 
The election’s real winner

JOHN BUELL 
America’s not-so-model elections: So much for exceptionalism

JASON SIBERT 
Trump made China great again

N. GUNASEKARAN
Democracies under threat during pandemic

BOOK REVIEW/Heather Seggel  
Unplug the jukebox

ROB PATTERSON 
Public libraries remain a public asset

MOVIE REVIEW/Ed Rampell  
‘Make the earth Greta again!’

SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson  
It’s not like chicken soup will cure you

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