July 2020 Volume 44, Issue 07

July 2020

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Viewpoint

Want to Defeat Trump Without Campaigning for Biden? Here’s How. David Duhalde

Our Biden Problem Barbara Ransby

Former Leaders of SDS, Meet the Current Members of DSA Joel Bleifuss

Trump’s “Reopening” Is a Red Herring Sarah Lazare

Feature

Market Logic Is Literally Killing Us Rick Perlstein

9 Statistics That Show What a Miserable Failure the CARES Act Is Dayton Martindale

Dispatch

“People’s Eyes Are Starting To Open”: How Covid-19 Is Driving Support for Medicaid Expansion Allison Salerno

The Church of Latter-Day Socialists Nicholas Greyson Ward

The Food Industry’s Next Covid-19 Victims: Migrant Farmworkers Michelle Fawcett and Arun Gupta

Culture

In 1971, Nixon Passed a Rule to Doom the Post Office. Now, It’s Finally Happening. Rebecca Burns

Artists Explore the Hidden Tolls of Life Lived at a Distance Diana Babineau

Investigation

The Catholic Church Siphoned Away $30 Million Paid to Native People for Stolen Land Mary Annette Pember

Market Logic Is Literally Killing Us

Historically, during national emergencies like World War II, the U.S. government subordinated business interests to the public good. Why can't it do so in the Covid-19 crisis?

Rick Perlstein

9 Statistics That Show What a Miserable Failure the CARES Act Is

Major bailouts went to big corporations, giving them lasting security, while the rest of us got a temporary Band-Aid.

Dayton Martindale

In 1971, Nixon Passed a Rule to Doom the Post Office. Now, It’s Finally Happening.

The Post Office used to be federally funded. Then, Republicans passed legislation requiring it to "pay for itself."

InvestigationGoodman Institute

The Catholic Church Siphoned Away $30 Million Paid to Native People for Stolen Land

Free, government-funded schools were rarely built on reservations—meaning that for many Native families, Catholic mission schools were the only option.

Mary Annette Pember

“People’s Eyes Are Starting To Open”: How Covid-19 Is Driving Support for Medicaid Expansion

In North Carolina, canvassers are working to expand Medicaid—and finding a sympathetic audience amid the pandemic.

Allison Salerno

The Church of Latter-Day Socialists

These Mormons are taking the church back to its socialist roots.

Nicholas Greyson Ward

Artists Explore the Hidden Tolls of Life Lived at a Distance

What art looks like in isolation

Want to Defeat Trump Without Campaigning for Biden? Here’s How.

Socialists and other Bernie Sanders supporters can play a critical role in defeating right-wing populism while building a left-wing alternative for the long term—by going down-ballot.

Our Biden Problem

Movements face a challenge: how to oust Trump while still combatting Biden's neoliberalism.

The Food Industry’s Next Covid-19 Victims: Migrant Farmworkers

Outbreaks have begun at farms around the country, thanks in large part to crowded employer-provided housing.

Michelle Fawcett and Arun Gupta

Former Leaders of SDS, Meet the Current Members of DSA

The authors of "An Open Letter to the New New Left From the Old New Left" failed to grasp several things about the Democratic Socialists of America.

Trump’s “Reopening” Is a Red Herring

We should not concede the language of “reopening” to right-wing liars who are sending poor people to their death.

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