May 2020 Volume 44, Issue 05

May 2020

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Viewpoint

This Is a Health Crisis—Stop Treating It Like a War Joel Bleifuss

What Today’s Socialists Can Learn From the Heyday of American Communism Micah Uetricht

Corporate America Fleeced Us Again Moe Tkacik

Feature

Would We Already Have Had a COVID-19 Vaccine Under Socialism? Vanessa A. Bee

A Primer on Disaster Capitalism, Our New Normal In These Times Editors

Bernie Sanders Started the Revolution. The Rest Is Up to Us. Meagan Day and Micah Uetricht

Time to Redirect the Military Budget to Public Health Indigo Olivier

Dispatch

Why Alaska Native Villages Were Quick To Self-Isolate Yereth Rosen

Under Trump, Undocumented Immigrants With COVID-19 Are Being Denied Care Sabrina Gunter

How Disabled Activists Are Fighting Isolation, Collectively Brooke Anderson

Culture

As a Domestic Violence Survivor, I Don’t Always Feel Safer at Home Anna Joy Springer

Investigation

Is Building Missiles ‘Essential’? The U.S. Government Thinks So. Taylor Barnes

Would We Already Have Had a COVID-19 Vaccine Under Socialism?

Debunking the myth that capitalism drives innovation.

Vanessa A. Bee

A Primer on Disaster Capitalism, Our New Normal

When a crisis occurs, the private sector often uses it as a distraction to push through its own agenda.

In These Times Editors

Bernie Sanders Started the Revolution. The Rest Is Up to Us.

Sanders has laid a path to take on corporate power and win democratic socialism.

Meagan Day and Micah Uetricht

Time to Redirect the Military Budget to Public Health

America's addiction to war, by the numbers.

Indigo Olivier

This Is a Health Crisis—Stop Treating It Like a War

Even by his standards, Trump is a terrible wartime president

What Today’s Socialists Can Learn From the Heyday of American Communism

A 43-year-old classic text of Communist history has been rereleased this month. Young democratic socialists should dig in.

As a Domestic Violence Survivor, I Don’t Always Feel Safer at Home

Shelter in place orders can remind those of us with C-PTSD of past times we were trapped.

Anna Joy Springer

Why Alaska Native Villages Were Quick To Self-Isolate

Scarred by a legacy of colonial diseases, Alaska tribes quickly cut off the outside world.

Under Trump, Undocumented Immigrants With COVID-19 Are Being Denied Care

For immigrants, the coronavirus crisis is becoming a nightmare.

InvestigationGoodman Institute

Is Building Missiles ‘Essential’? The U.S. Government Thinks So.

Some workers in the defense industry question why they're required to stay on the job, and many are worried about safety.

How Disabled Activists Are Fighting Isolation, Collectively

In the Bay Area, mutual aid projects are helping build community in a time of social distancing.

Brooke Anderson

Corporate America Fleeced Us Again

The coronavirus bill is an orgy of corporate welfare that rivals the 2008 bailout.

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