Saturday, September 12, 2020

Selections from the October 1, 2020 issue

COVER/Bill Blum 

How Donald Trump has constructed a legal infrastructure of fascism

EDITORIAL 
Make Trump the “loser”


WARREN ALAN TIDWELL  
We need more than disaster recovery — we need green jobs

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

DON ROLLINS 
Neocons on the outside looking in

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen  
The urban-rural divide

DISPATCHES 
Set the record straight on unions. 
Six months into recession, economy is still down 11.5 million jobs. 
US debt will overtake GDP next year.
Social Security’s future hangs in the balance. 
Trump administration plans $250 million ad buy to persuade you not to worry about the pandemic. 
Dems urge probe of fundraising fraud allegations against postmaster general.
Trump campaign, GOP have spent nearly $60M on lawyers for Trump
US goes it alone on COVID vaccine ...

ART CULLEN 
Anxiety is a hard sell in a catastrophic run-up to the election

JOHN L. MICEK 
Donald Trump and Republicans, in their own words


JILL RICHARDSON 
Where have I heard these Trump lines before?

JOHN YOUNG 
Trump spread his lies on my lawn

ROGER BYBEE 
Kenosha reveals ongoing police violence, growing menance of white militia forces


JOSEPH B. ATKINS
Organizing labor in the pandemic south


JAMES A. HAUGHT
Conservatives lose — and lose


ROBERTO Dr. CINTLI RODRIGUEZ
Memory, COVID-19 and sequelae violence

CINNAMON JANZER
Heartland tenants who beat the odds

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Trump’s virus strategy: Blinders

SAM URETSKY
Trump seeks immunity from COVID repercussions

SAM PIZZIGATI 
Within healthcare USA, risk and reward have never been more out of kilter

WAYNE O’LEARY
Donkey Kong

JOHN BUELL
Who is calling the tunes at CDC and why care? 

JAMES E. VARNER
Trump’s Postmaster General should be returned to sender


JOEL D. JOSEPH 
How to fire the Postmaster General


JEFF COHEN and NORMAN SOLOMON  
Four years ago, we warned that Trump could win. Now, we’re warning again. 

BOOK REVIEW/Heather Seggel
See you at the movies

ROB PATTERSON 
Don’t feel bad about ‘Guilty Pleasures’

SETH SANDRONSKY 
Report: COVID-19’s impacts on Hispanic workers

MOVIE REVIEW/Ed Rampell
What is happening in Trump’s brain?


SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson  
Battle Hymn of the Trumpublic


SATIRE/Frank Lingo 
America’s marriage on the rocks

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