Friday, April 10, 2020

Selections from the May 1, 2020 issue

COVER/Hal Crowther
Going viral: Fighting for oxygen in Trump’s America


EDITORIAL
Save the post office and elections


ASHAR FOLEY
Coronavirus proves it: We need Medicare for All


LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

DON ROLLINS
Joseph Lowery, organizer for justice


RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
We’re all in this together


DISPATCHES
Trump keeps touting virus ‘cure’ despite death, extreme illness and doctors’ warnings;
Trump’s COVID lies are about to hit the wall;
Rural Americans fear virus after losing hospitals;
New polls raise hopes of Dems flipping Senate;
Masks, other protective gear are being stolen from states and nations, but by whom?
COVID-19 shutdown may have left 3.5 million workers without insurance;
Scamle for rapid COVID-19 test everybody wants ...


ART CULLEN
Tough times


ADAM TURTLE
What is at risk and what we can do now


JILL RICHARDSON
Efficiency vs. resilience


JOHN YOUNG
Who’ll play Dan Patrick’s hunger games?


GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Crisis at the borders


BOOK REVIEW/Roger Bybee
Time to merge left


THOM HARTMANN
The coronavirus crash could be worse than the Republican Great Depression of 1930


KEVIN BASL
Thank farmers and grocery workers for their service


FRANK LINGO
Earth Day turns 50


HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
The lure of vertical integration, or the Walmart model


SAM URETSKY
The best cure for COVID-19 so far is prevention 


JASON SIBERT
The mightiest country’s weaknesses are exposed


WAYNE O’LEARY
Absentee president


JOHN BUELL
Hospital shortages: The corporate media’s unsung story


ROBERTO Dr. CINTLI RODRIGUEZ
Time to renounce the church’s dark ages thinking


BOB BURNETT
Ready or not, here comes the recession


BOOK REVIEW/Heather Seggel
Waiting for the man


ROB PATTERSON 
‘Succession’ sets siblings against each other

SETH SANDRONSKY
Standardized tests in the time of COVID-19


INTERVIEW/Ed Rampell
Introducing Tanya Alexander, the rising star of L.A. theatre


SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson
Happy talk, we’re talking happy talk


and more ...

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