June 2020 Volume 44, Issue 06

June 2020

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Viewpoint

Class Traitors, Welcome to the Revolution Maximillian Alvarez

Black Voters Are Ready. Are We? Phillip Agnew

To Win Elections, Should the Left Be Nicer on the Internet? Zeeshan Aleem

Look at How Much Sense It Makes to Do the Green New Deal Right Now Sarah Lazare

Want to Push Biden Left? Focus on These Appointments. Eleanor Eagan

David Sirota: The Democratic Party’s Tyranny of Decorum Helped Sink Bernie David Sirota

Astra Taylor: Bernie Sanders’ Exit Is an Indictment of Our Broken System—Not His Campaign Astra Taylor

Feature

Workers Fight for Their Lives Michelle Chen

Want a Real Election This Fall? Enact Vote-by-Mail. In These Times Editors

Perry Rosenstein: Building a Foundation for Art and Social Justice Joel Bleifuss

10 Signs That Prove Big Pharma Could Care Less About Your Health Dayton Martindale

Black Women’s Livelihoods Will Be Yet Another Coronavirus Casualty Chandra Thomas Whitfield

Dispatch

Union Teachers Are Donating Their Stimulus Checks to the Undocumented Brooke Anderson

“An Essential Procedure”: How Abortion Providers Are Persevering Through the Pandemic Jessica Corbett

Culture

The Language of Extinction Holly Haworth

SARS Lessons Lost Indigo Olivier

Workers Fight for Their Lives

The spontaneous rebellion of low-wage workers exposed to Covid-19.

Michelle Chen

Want a Real Election This Fall? Enact Vote-by-Mail.

Mail-in voting could be crucial to a safe and fair election this fall.

In These Times Editors

Perry Rosenstein: Building a Foundation for Art and Social Justice

As president and founder of the Puffin Foundation, Rosenstein nourished independent journalism.

Joel Bleifuss

10 Signs That Prove Big Pharma Could Care Less About Your Health

Drug companies are lobbying to protect their right to profit from any future Covid-19 vaccine.

Dayton Martindale

Black Women’s Livelihoods Will Be Yet Another Coronavirus Casualty

For many reasons, Black women are particularly hurt by the virus's economic toll.

Chandra Thomas Whitfield

The Language of Extinction

When wildfires destroy habitats, more than species are lost.

Class Traitors, Welcome to the Revolution

Many liberal professionals who supported Elizabeth Warren took their votes to Joe Biden, not Bernie Sanders. But they may still join a future left electoral coalition if they can face their own precarity.

Maximillian Alvarez

Black Voters Are Ready. Are We?

Bernie lost with Black voters, but the Left will win if we commit to deep organizing work to earn their trust.

To Win Elections, Should the Left Be Nicer on the Internet?

There are signs that antagonistic Bernie supporters may have discouraged coalition-building with winnable Warren voters.

SARS Lessons Lost

What the United States should have learned from SARS—and blatantly ignored.

Look at How Much Sense It Makes to Do the Green New Deal Right Now

We can get out of this depression and save the planet all at once.

Union Teachers Are Donating Their Stimulus Checks to the Undocumented

Undocumented workers are excluded from unemployment protections and stimulus checks, but not from union solidarity.

Brooke Anderson

“An Essential Procedure”: How Abortion Providers Are Persevering Through the Pandemic

In the face of Covid-19, clinics are continuing to provide safe abortions at a safe distance.

Jessica Corbett

Want to Push Biden Left? Focus on These Appointments.

Appointments will have a major impact on whether a potential Biden administration delivers on progressive policies. Here's what the Left should push for now.

David Sirota: The Democratic Party’s Tyranny of Decorum Helped Sink Bernie

Sanders could have gone harder against Biden, but ultimately it was the establishment that stood in his way.

Astra Taylor: Bernie Sanders’ Exit Is an Indictment of Our Broken System—Not His Campaign

Voter suppression was stronger than Bernie Sanders' voter turnout plan. And the pandemic has made things worse.

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