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December 14/21, 2020, Issue
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Feature
Thanks to the Microsoft founder’s support, the IHME can make its own rules about how to track global health. That’s a problem.
Corporate consolidation has left the US with a health care system built for profit, not people.
The rushed sell-off of the territory’s electrical utility is part of a larger move to gut public goods for private profit.
Editorial
We don’t have to choose between a fantasy third party and the Democratic Party in its current state.
Fifty-seven percent of Americans believe the country needs a third major party.
Trump didn’t merely bungle this country’s pandemic response; he stoked the flames of this third and largest surge.
These activists risked their freedom putting faith into practice—which puts Joe Biden on the spot.
In the Haitian Creole language, “Gwo Fanm” means “Big Woman,” a woman who shoulders more than their fair share of burdens in this life.
As the Trump administration rushes to execute more and more people, my friends are dying—and I might be next.
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Column
There is no longer just one Jewish community. There are several, and they are increasingly at loggerheads.
Trump’s supporters, already steeped in white grievance, are predictably receptive to the idea that “illegal voters” have succeeded in stealing their democracy.
Books & the Arts
Once you put on your “monopoly decoder ring,” David Dayen writes in his new book, you start to see how monopolies influence almost every part of American society.
A new history shows how the glut of US military bases abroad has led to a constant state of military conflict.
Kelly Lee Owens’s quietly complex electronic music is defined by its spirit of care.
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Letters
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