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COVER/Amanda Schupak p. 1
Corporate America is becoming a powerful ally for clean energy
EDITORIAL p. 2
Who’s rigging the vote?
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Get into ‘good trouble’: Save our Post Office ... and our right to vote.
Trump’s bass-ackward government.
SATIRE/Frank Lingo p. 3
Mailing my ballot
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Trump, misogyny and a tell-all bestseller
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Social distancing has a long history in the movies
DISPATCHES p. 5
House adopts bill to roll back Postal Service sabotage.
Trump tries (and fails) to separate himself from newly indicted border wall fraudster.
Trump speech attacking Biden on immigration instead shows Trump’s own extremism.
Republican voters say COVID-19 death rate ‘acceptable.’
Tennessee will strip vote from protesters.
Pentagon weighing $2 billion cuts to military health care.
Trump proposes capital gains cut to help rich
...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
No payroll tax, no Social Security
ART CULLEN p. 6
An ill wind blew 14 million acres to smithereens, a mark of the new normal
JIM VAN DER POL p. 6
Evangelicals vs. Christians
GENE LYONS p. 7
Biden’s appeal to working-class Americans rooted in Irish heritage
JILL RICHARDSON p. 7
Colleges are still in uncharted territory
SONALI KOLHATKAR p. 8
The hoopla over Kamala Harris obscures many young people of color who are winning offices nationally
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 9
Progressives, get ready to push Biden and Harris
DICK POLMAN p. 9
The race is on: It’s Biden vs. ‘a grave counterintelligence threat’
JOHN YOUNG p. 9
Not only is she from America, she IS America
TOM CONWAY p. 10
‘I don’t trust him’: How Trump abandoned workers when they needed him the most
ALEX LAWSON p. 10
34 attorneys general want Gilead’s pharma patent monopoly on COVID treatment Remdesivir busted
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Rest assured, the ‘housewives’ of suburbia are onto Trump’s antics
DEAN BAKER p. 11
The simple fix for corporate income tax — tax stock returns
JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 11
It is time to boycott Russian products
HAL CROWTHER p. 12
A McCarthy moment for Trump?
HEATHER DIGBY PARTON p. 13
Senate intelligence report reveals a vast network of — yes! — Trump-Russia collusion
ROBERT REICH p. 13
The life of the parties
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Trump’s disgraceful assault on the USPS and the American people
THOM HARTMANN p. 14
If Biden wins, get ready for Trump to punish America
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
The dirtiest trickster of them all
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Postal Service heading for winter of our discontent
SARAH ANDERSON p. 15
The fox is still in the henhouse at the post office
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Why we can’t defeat the virus
JOHN BUELL p. 16
Lessons from Beirut/Hiroshima
ROBERTO Dr. CINTLI RODRIGUEZ p. 16
Is there room for red-black-brown voices in the national conversation on race?
JUAN COLE p. 17
Former US allies Britain, France and Germany join Russia and China in rejecting Trump’s Iran arms sanction
JASON SIBERT p. 17
US should stop rattling sabers with China
JOE CONASON p. 18
How the Clinton diversion shields Trump
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
A controlled convention is a very strange thing
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 18
Postal Service has plenty of capacity to deliver mail-in ballots
RALPH NADER p. 19
Needed: Indicators for measuring injustice and societal decay
TED RALL p. 19
It could easily happen here, and soon
BOOK REVIEW/Heather Seggel p. 20
Every day is like survival
ROB PATTERSON p. 20
JFK assassination still fascinates
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 20
Teaching in a pandemic: An interview with Mercedes K. Schneider
MOVIE REVIEW/Ed Rampell p. 21
The killing that awakened the city that never sleeps
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
College football should be shut down, even if it hurts
SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 21
Vaccinate this!
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
If Joe Biden rejects his progressive base, Trump will win
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Finally, a convention for the rest of America
DANA MILBANK p. 23
Joe Biden speaks from a place Trump doesn’t know — the heart
GENE NICHOL p. 23
In moment of national consecration Obama call out North Carolina
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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