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Feature
The Color of Contagion
The pandemic has intensified racial disparities. We have to address them without reinforcing them.
Patricia J. Williams
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There Is Power Even Without a Union
Target workers are taking on bosses themselves. Is this the future of radical organizing?
P.E. Moskowitz
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Democrats Are Winning Their Fight for the States
Democrats lost nearly 1,000 state legislative seats while Obama was in office. Under Trump, they’ve won back almost half. Can they close the gap this November?
Joan Walsh
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Editorial
Can Joe Biden Unrig the Economy?
Raising taxes on the rich would help stop the economy from simply channeling income to 1 percent.
Mike Konczal
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If Republicans Want a Fight Over the Post Office, Give It to Them
Don’t be fooled: The Republicans have been attacking the United States Postal Service for a long time. Trump just took advantage of it.
John Nichols for The Nation
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School Reopenings Are Only Going to Get More Chaotic
Trump gave up on controlling the virus, squandering our chance to reopen safely.
Zoë Carpenter
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N.K. Jemisin Wrote a Sci-Fi Ode to New York City—Then It Became Reality
We talked to the award-winning writer about The City We Became, her latest groundbreaking, world-quaking book, and why it feels so prescient.
Jessica Suriano
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Column
How Yale Became the Latest Target in the Plot to Kill Affirmative Action
In the coming days, the DOJ will borrow a page from the conservative playbook and likely sue Yale for violating the rights of white and Asian students.
Elie Mystal
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Canceling Margaret Sanger Only Helps Abortion Opponents
When Planned Parenthood took the name of the organization’s founder off its flagship clinic in Manhattan, they bought into anti-choice propaganda.
Katha Pollitt
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Books & the Arts
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How Federal Housing Programs Failed Black America
In Race for Profit, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor shows how even those housing policies that sought to create more Black homeowners were stymied by racism and a determination to shrink the government’s presence.
Marcia Chatelain
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Arca’s Rebellion Against Music and Life
How the experimental artist made one of the year’s most defiant pop records.
Julyssa Lopez
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Letters
Letters From the September 7/14, 2020, Issue
Workers are not inputs… Starving the beast… Trump’s disordered personality… Taking back control…
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