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November 2/9, 2020, Issue
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Feature
Between February and May, more than 5.4 million people lost their health insurance coverage. That’s the highest increase ever recorded.
More than half a century after they reenergized the sport, Black Americans may not need baseball. But baseball needs more Black players—and fans.
An antifa reporter swipes white.
Fire in the Anthropocene has become the environmental equivalent of nuclear war.
Editorial
If all we do is exile law enforcement from our ranks, we won’t help rid the country of white supremacy.
We cannot stand by and watch as our so-called union brothers continue to brutalize Black and working-class lives with impunity.
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.
Trump's illness hasn't made him wiser, or more honest. But it has made him more dangerous.
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Column
Yes, Democrats must expand the courts. Here’s why, and here’s how.
Don’t believe the hot takes that say we can do without it.
Books & the Arts
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.
A new history of Ed Logue and his vision of urban renewal documents the broken promises of midcentury liberalism.
Michael Almereyda’s biopic of the eccentric inventor is a portrait of the tensions that arise when art and commerce intersect.
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