July 27/August 3, 2020, Issue

Feature

Democrats Will Be Lost Without the Senate

A Biden win in November 2020 will be insufficient unless Democrats take the Senate and displace majority leader Mitch McConnell.
John Nichols
Witnessing the Pandemic From the Front Lines at New York City’s Oldest Public Hospital

Even as we work to treat the sick and prevent Covid’s further spread, we must also remember the dead.
Colleen M. Farrell
It’s Time to Tell a New Story About the Coronavirus—Our Lives Depend on It

The way we talk about contagion matters. It shapes how societies respond—and whether many of us will survive.
Sonia Shah

Editorial

The Supreme Court’s Public-Health Approach to Abortion Rights

The procedure can be crucial to a person’s health and livelihood. When striking down restrictions, the justices should acknowledge that.
Rachel Rebouché
Protest and Survive!

We can’t wait until January 2021 to shift course. Our lives depend on disruption now.
Gregg Gonsalves for The Nation
Milton Glaser, 1929–2020

Luckily for The Nation, Milton’s first rule was “You can only work for people you like.”
Victor Navasky
The Coronavirus Pushes State Budgets to the Brink

Cuts will fall the hardest on those who have been on the front lines of the crisis.
Bryce Covert
John Roberts Is Not Your Friend

Despite his recent rulings on abortion, DACA, and LGBTQ rights, Roberts is no moderate. He’s a rock-ribbed Republican playing the long game.
Elie Mystal
Black Liberation and Indigenous Sovereignty Are Interconnected

I’m a guest in the Black Lives Matter movement, and making images is how I show my support.
Josué Rivas , The Nation and Magnum Foundation
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Books & the Arts

On the Record’s Act of Witness

Telling the stories of three women who accused Russell Simmons of sexual assault, the documentary is a powerful case study in how institutions have failed Black women.
Stephen Kearse
The Many Lives of Catherine the Great

A new Hulu show presents the life of the Russian empress as a narrative of lean-in empowerment. But was it?
Sophie Pinkham
J.M. Coetzee’s States of Exile

In writing an allegory that is barely an allegory and a trilogy of novels that are often not novels, Coetzee appears to have made his own literary displacement total.
Siddhartha Deb
Saviors

Allan Peterson
How Becoming a Mother Is Like Space Travel

Catherine Pierce
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