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COVER/Ava Kofman p. 1
Trapped inside an assisted living facility during the pandemic: ‘We don’t even know who is dead or alive’
EDITORIAL p. 2
Biden’s Cabinet choices
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Who cares who the Secretary of Agriculture is? The agriCULTURE attitude
FRANK LINGO p. 3
Trump leaves EPA sabotaged
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Bet the old gray mule: Trump won’t go away
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Time for the grown-ups to take charge
DISPATCHES p. 5
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
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ART CULLEN p. 6
Ok. You have a cellphone. But are you really better off?
FROMA HARROP p. 6
America moves on from Trump
SARAH ANDERSON and MARGOT RATHKE p. 6
Biden could cancel student debt. Will he? GENE LYONS p. 7
Even Republicans are shutting down Trump’s desperate effots
JILL RICHARDSON p. 7
We need a safety net for parents
JOHN YOUNG p. 7
Free to pray, free to spray?
TOM CONWAY p. 10
How Americans can help frontline workers battling COVID-19
JOHN GEYMAN, M.D. p. 10
Trump’s fantasy about COVID-19 keeps killing Americans. What can be done?
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
The Force vs. The Squad and other brawls congressional women should avoid
DEAN BAKER p. 11
Another slow recovery from economic disaster
NANCY J. ALTMAN and LINDA BENENSCH p. 12
Social Security: Something to give thanks for in 2020
SAM PIZZIGATI p. 12
The rich are cheering Wall Street’s latest records. Americans of modest means are draining 401(k)s
HEATHER DIGBY PARTON p. 13
Suddenly Republicans want norms, ethics and ‘civility’: Are they actually psychopaths?
ROBERT REICH p. 13
The dangerous seduction of ‘back to normal’
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Georgia voters will decide
ROBERTO Dr. CINTLI RODRIGUEZ p. 14
An open letter to Spain
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 14
Seeing hillbillies
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Scientists: A breed to nurture
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Biden may have trouble putting the house divided back together again
JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 15
How President Biden can convert Trump voters
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
The election’s real winner
JOHN BUELL p. 16
America’s not-so-model elections: So much for exceptionalism
JASON SIBERT p. 16
Trump made China great again
JUAN COLE p. 17
Israeli official: “World should thank Israel” for murdering Iranian scientist; CIA’s Brennan: “Act of state-sponsored terrorism”
N. GUNASEKARAN p. 17
Democracies under threat during pandemic
JOE CONASON p. 18
Gratitude and grace, even now
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
Biden’s early rise or fall rides on Georgia
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 18
Trouble at Treasury?
RALPH NADER p. 19
Biden needs to report Trump’s wreckage in Executive Branch as markers
TED RALL p. 19
Hey Joe! These are our demands
BOOK REVIEW/Heather Seggel p. 20
Unplug the jukebox
ROB PATTERSON p. 20
Public libraries remain a public asset
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 20
Time for Democrats to drain the real swamp
MOVIE REVIEW/Ed Rampell p. 21
‘Make the earth Greta again!’
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
The politics of Maradona’s iconic ‘Hand of God’ goal
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Pardons and pentobarbital: Trump’s lame duck swan song
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Mourning doves and chickadees
DANA MILBANK p. 23
At the White House, Capitol and Supreme Court, Trump goes on a spree of sabotage
SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 23
It’s not like chicken soup will cure you
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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