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Feature
The Pandemic Sent Americans’ Health Care Coverage Into Free Fall
Between February and May, more than 5.4 million people lost their health insurance coverage. That’s the highest increase ever recorded.
Bryce Covert
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Baseball’s Race Problem
More than half a century after they reenergized the sport, Black Americans may not need baseball. But baseball needs more Black players—and fans.
Gene Seymour
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California’s Desert Ecosystems Will Never Recover
Fire in the Anthropocene has become the environmental equivalent of nuclear war.
Mike Davis
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Editorial
The Labor Movement Isn’t Ready to Expel Police Unions
If all we do is exile law enforcement from our ranks, we won’t help rid the country of white supremacy.
Bill Fletcher Jr.
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We Must Sever Law Enforcement From the Labor Movement
We cannot stand by and watch as our so-called union brothers continue to brutalize Black and working-class lives with impunity.
Kim Kelly
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The Election Isn’t Over Until Trump’s Gone
A decisive early win for Joe Biden would help prevent a “red mirage,” but Election Day is just a way station on the circuitous route to choosing the next president.
John Nichols
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The Power of Covid-Positive Thinking
Trump’s illness hasn’t made him wiser, or more honest. But it has made him more dangerous.
Jeet Heer for The Nation
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Column
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There Is Only One Solution to the Amy Coney Barrett Debacle
Yes, Democrats must expand the courts. Here’s why, and here’s how.
Elie Mystal
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‘Roe v. Wade’ Is Nonnegotiable
Don’t believe the hot takes that say we can do without it.
Katha Pollitt
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Books & the Arts
How Did We Get Here?
Three new books by prominent liberal intellectuals—Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson’s Let Them Eat Tweets, Robert B. Reich’s The System, and Robert P. Saldin and Steven M. Teles’s Never Trump—give strikingly different answers.
Nicholas Lemann
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How Did American Cities Become So Unequal?
A new history of Ed Logue and his vision of urban renewal documents the broken promises of midcentury liberalism.
Kim Phillips-Fein
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The Perils of Creativity and Capitalism in ‘Tesla’
Michael Almereyda’s biopic of the eccentric inventor is a portrait of the tensions that arise when art and commerce intersect.
Vikram Murthi
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Back Page
Sherrod Brown: Covid Shows How Corporate ‘Free Trade’ Policies Threaten Public Health
The Ohio senator proposes a radically different approach to trade policy. It starts with the word “public.”
John Nichols
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Letters
