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COVER/Brianna Bailey and Maya Miller p. 1
CRITICAL CONDITION: She needed lifesaving medication, but the only hospital in town did not have it
EDITORIAL p. 2
Trump whistles his racist base
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Moving forward during the COVID crisis.
The GOP’s grotesque plan to cope with COVID-19.
George Floyd, me, you ... and a Donald Trump coup!
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Are we ready for a Black Jesus?
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Defund police militarization
DISPATCHES p. 5
China turns table on Trump, says ‘US epidemic’ is threat to rest of world.
Voters in COVID hotspots know who to blame.
Trump sank himself in Michigan; Biden didn’t have to lift a finger.
Contracts show Trump lets Big Pharma gouge taxpayer-funded COVID drugs.
Shock doctrine in action: Trump friends, former staff cash in on COVID crisis.
Minimum wage rises in some places, but it’s still COVID economy.
Breonna Taylor shooting scandal has
so many strands of country's wretched history on race ....
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Some of you rabbits are winning. Others not
ART CULLEN p. 6
Trump directs an assault on our town
BILL JOHNSTON p. 6
Trump the draft dodger
GENE LYONS p. 7
The country’s changing and Trump is the last to know
JILL RICHARDSON p. 7
Learning not to look away
JOHN YOUNG p. 7
Stupidity spread in droplets
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 9
Progressive victories blow up the conventional wisdom
BOB BURNETT p. 9
Five things you can do about racism
TOM CONWAY p. 10
Pirates of the pandemic
JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 10
Free trade bill of rights
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Calls to defund police must also address disarming America
DEAN BAKER p. 11
Older workers targeted in Trump’s lawsuit to end Obamacare
ROBERTO Dr. CINTLI RODRIGUEZ p. 11
Police abuse: Reform or revolution?
HEATHER DIGBY PARTON p. 12
On the phone with foreign leaders, Trump is ‘delusional’ and ‘uninformed’: Who’d a thunk it?
GENE NICHOL p. 12
A hard rain
ALEX LAWSON p. 13
Blood on his hands: The nursing home COVID-19 crisis is Donald Trump’s fault
ROBERT REICH p. 13
Trump’s re-election playbook in 25 steps
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
College athletes should decide whether to take the risk
RICHARD D. WOLFF p. 14
How racism is an essential tool for maintaining the capitalist order
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Where are the Republicans’ spines?
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Who do you trust?
FRANK LINGO p. 15
Journalism school refresher
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Trump’s bunker and Biden’s box
JOHN BUELL p. 16
A just minimum wage does many good things
DAVID SCHMIDT p. 16
Prohibiting the peaceful: How nonviolent protests get criminalized here and around the world
JUAN COLE p. 17
Trump likely threw US troops in Afghanistan under the bus, but why would Russians have targeted them?
JOE CONASON p. 18
A contrast so stark
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
The yankee and the cavalier still speak on our bittersweet Fourth
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 18
China policy: Is there a grown-up in the room?
RALPH NADER p. 19
From the COVID-19 battle can come unstoppable citizen power to propel ‘full Medicare for All’ through Congress
TED RALL p. 19
Resist evictions and foreclosures
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 19
Protesting California’s billionaires
BOOK REVIEW/Heather Seggel p. 20
Everyday magic
ROB PATTERSON p. 20
‘Country music’ for people who don’t like country music
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 20
Graven images
MOVIE REVIEW/Ed Rampell p. 21
Black moviegoers matter: Must ‘Gone with the Wind’ be gone?
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Athletes are taking their solidarity to the streets
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Trump, Mt. Rushmore, COVID and the KKK
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
It’s not a debate: Wear a mask
DANA MILBANK p. 23
Could America’s pandemic response be any more medieval?
SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 23
The reformation of Donald Trump
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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This page posted July 10, 2020