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COVER/Bob Cesca p. 1
Trump wants to be President of just the Republican states: But they’re a total mess
EDITORIAL p. 2
Call the Republicans’ bluff
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Something is rotten at Big Meat Inc.
Pandemic in the plants.
SATIRE/Frank Lingo p. 3
Your vote: Democracy or dictatorship
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Changing the trajectory of race
ART CULLEN p. 5
Drought, plague, fire: The apocalypse feels nigh. Yet we have tools to stop it.
DISPATCHES p. 5
A.G. Barr threatens to cut off federal funding to three Democratic cities.
Democrats have a clear shot at Senate majority.
Postmaster General has rough day in court, in multiple wins for democracy.
Federal government didn’t try to stop COVID-19.
Trump applauds fed task force for killing Portland killing suspect
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FROMA HARROP p. 6
Apocalypse parade marches on America
JIM GOODMAN p. 6
The party formerly known as Republican
JASON SIBERT p. 6
Nuclear arms will have to be addressed
GENE LYONS p. 7
Woodward went straight to the source — and got his scoop
JILL RICHARDSON p. 7
I’m still mad about COVID-19. We all should be.
JOHN YOUNG p. 7
More damning than Nixon’s tapes
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 8
It’s going to be a long November. Here’s a game plan for every election outcome.
AMANDA MARCOTTE p. 9
Dr. bleach-injector and his death cult want you to get ‘herd developed’
TIMOTHY KARR p. 9
Confused by Section 230? So is Donald Trump
TOM CONWAY p. 10
A dire shortage of poll workers imperils American democracy
BOB BURNETT p. 10
Ten potential game changers
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Dodging blame, the Trump way
DEAN BAKER p. 11
Blue states are not wrong to want to restore the deduction for state and local taxes
SAM PIZZIGATI p. 11
Killing someone is not like missing a golf putt
CARL POPE p. 12
The fire this time: The West faces apocalypse, and we need a national solution
JOHN L. MICEK p. 12
Losers? Suckers? Terrorists? Anarchists? Meet the real folks behind Trump’s insults
HEATHER DIGBY PARTON p. 13
With no end in sight, Trump’s lies just keep making the pandemic worse
ROBERT REICH p. 13
The West is burning, but Trump doesn’t care
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Myths and lies about poverty
ROBERTO Dr. CINTLI RODRIGUEZ p. 14
The end times, Walter Mercado and the orange madman
JAMES A. HAUGHT p. 14
Watching religion die
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
To the pharmaceutical industry: Thank you
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Robbing Peter to pay Paul
JEFF ROBBINS p. 15
Looking under the hood: Time for Congress to investigate the performance of health care executives
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Cancelling Wilson
JOHN BUELL p. 16
In praise of public debt
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 16
Federal pandemic aid oversight adequate?
JUAN COLE p. 17
Abraham Accords: The war pact among Jim Crow states of the Middle East
MARY GREEN SWIG, STEVEN L. SWIG, DAVID A. BERGERON and RICHARD “RJ” ESKOW p. 17
How were 46 million people trapped by student debt?
JOE CONASON p. 18
The cult that’s eating the GOP
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
Summer rage: America burning inside and out
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 18
How aid that Congress approved in March is bottled up by Steve Mnuchin
RALPH NADER p. 19
Trump’s broken promises to his voters — he didn’t deliver!
TED RALL p. 19
If Biden loses, this will be why
BOOK REVIEW/Heather Seggel p. 20
Keep it on the square
ROB PATTERSON p. 20
Homeland and heartland
THOM HARTMANN p. 20
How big money controls the stories the media tells
MOVIE REVIEW/Ed Rampell p. 21
Unlocking the trauma shall set ye free
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
We’ve entered the era of ‘Branding for Black Lives’
SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 21
The commander in chief knows best
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Julian Assange, and press freedom, on trial in London
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Life, still
DANA MILBANK p. 23
Trump is trying to sabotage the election. Here’s why it won’t work.
NAKIYA WAKES p. 23
What the Flint wanter crisis meant for my family
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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