June 15/22, 2020, Issue

Feature

How to Survive an Apocalypse and Keep Dreaming

As Native people, we have inherited an audacious vision.
Julian Brave NoiseCat
The Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party Is a Fight for the Future

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.
John Nichols
5 Ways to Rebuild Labor and Transform America

The economic fallout from Covid-19 has created an opening for unions to lead a mass movement.
Bill Fletcher Jr.
America Never Valued Care Workers. Then a Pandemic Hit.

Now everyone knows teachers, child care providers, and health aides are essential workers. Will that finally get them the pay and protections they deserve?
Bryce Covert
The Suburban Commute Is a Soul-Crushing, Environment-Destroying Invention

The last few months have shown us that we can do away with it forever.
Elie Mystal
We Really Need to Tax the Rich

In California, they’re making it happen.
Jane McAlevey
Will Covid-19 Be a Turning Point in the Fight Against Racial Disparities in Health Care?

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.
Zoë Carpenter
A Call to Revolt

It’s time to end the phony war and take back the streets.
Mike Davis

Editorial

Depicting Those Lost to Covid-19

They were all essential.
Steve Brodner
Remembering Frederika Randall (1948–2020)

The Nation’s longtime Rome correspondent died on May 12.
D.D. Guttenplan
Unemployment Insurance Is a Vital Part of Economic Freedom

Finding a way to provide economic security to our fractured labor force is one of the central goals of our time.
Mike Konczal
New Beginnings: Time to Think Big!

In times of crisis, ideas that were once considered radical can enter the mainstream.
Christopher Shay for The Nation
Little Donald’s Sneeze

Peter Kuper
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Column

A Fourth Inspector General Bites the Dust

Calvin Trillin
We Should Take Women’s Accusations Seriously. But Tara Reade’s Fall Short.

I would vote for Joe Biden even if I believed Reade’s account. Fortunately, I don’t have to sacrifice morality to political necessity.
Katha Pollitt

Books & the Arts

The Troubling Origins of Birthright Politics

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.
Nathan Perl-Rosenthal
The Lost History of Southern Communism

Mary Stanton’s Red, Black, White offers a close examination of the triumphs and travails of Alabama’s local Communist Party chapter.
Robert Greene II
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Ennio Moltedo
‘God Friended Me’ Was the Strangest Show on TV

Each episode of the CBS comedy-drama functions as a morality play for a peculiar worldview.
Erin Schwartz
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