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June 15/22, 2020, Issue
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Feature
As Native people, we have inherited an audacious vision.
Henry Wallace, FDR’s vice president, argued 75 years ago that Democrats had to go big on economic and social and racial justice. That’s still true.
The economic fallout from Covid-19 has created an opening for unions to lead a mass movement.
Now everyone knows teachers, child care providers, and health aides are essential workers. Will that finally get them the pay and protections they deserve?
The last few months have shown us that we can do away with it forever.
In California, they’re making it happen.
Public health experts hope that the vast scale of the crisis will prompt meaningful political action to counter health inequities, which have been persistent in America for well over a century.
It’s time to end the phony war and take back the streets.
Editorial
The Nation ’s longtime Rome correspondent died on May 12.
Finding a way to provide economic security to our fractured labor force is one of the central goals of our time.
In times of crisis, ideas that were once considered radical can enter the mainstream.
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Column
I would vote for Joe Biden even if I believed Reade’s account. Fortunately, I don’t have to sacrifice morality to political necessity.
Books & the Arts
Two new works of history examine how the politics of birthright citizenship can be a vehicle for liberation and equality and serve the cause of exclusion.
Mary Stanton’s Red, Black, White offers a close examination of the triumphs and travails of Alabama’s local Communist Party chapter.
Each episode of the CBS comedy-drama functions as a morality play for a peculiar worldview.
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Letters
Don’t blame the Boasians… Tilting at windmills… Dark recesses… The road already taken… Submerging the valley…
