18 July 2020
TOP STORIES
Unemployment, evictions, business failure, a pandemic and health crises are all here at once. The federal government doesn’t care.
BY HAMILTON NOLAN
Nationalize the Pharmaceutical Industry Now
The status quo will kill us.
BY HADAS THIER
The Forgotten History of the Jewish, Anti-Zionist Left
A conversation with scholar Benjamin Balthaser about Jewish, working-class anti-Zionism in the 1930s and ’40s.
BY SARAH LAZARE
11 Statistics That Show Racism Is Entrenched in Our Healthcare System
Covid-19 is disproportionately harming Black Americans. This is not an exception, but the rule.
BY DAYTON MARTINDALE
All Undocumented Immigrants Deserve Citizenship—Not Just “Essential Workers”
The pandemic has made clear that we need to provide citizenship for all immigrants, and safe working conditions for all workers.
BY SHANNON GLEESON AND SOFYA APTEKAR
They Are Burying Us Alive in Prison
When Covid-19 broke out in Stateville Correctional Center, we were left to die.
BY RAUL DORADO
In 1971, Nixon Passed a Rule to Doom the Post Office. Now, It’s Finally Happening.
The Post Office used to be federally funded. Then, Republicans passed legislation requiring it to “pay for itself.”
BY REBECCA BURNS
“Blue Lives Matter” Comes to Brooklyn, and Everyone Screams
In Bay Ridge, pro-police demonstrators were met with the righteous anger of Black Lives Matter.
BY HAMILTON NOLAN
WORKING IN THESE TIMES
Teachers Unions Look Like the Last Line of Defense in Trump’s “Reckless” School Reopening Crusade
Across the country, teachers unions are pushing back on reopening plans: "If Donald Trump is telling people to go back to school, that should mean everyone with a brain knows not to go back to school."
BY HAMILTON NOLAN
RURAL AMERICA IN THESE TIMES
‘We Get There First or White Supremacists Do’: How These Rural Canvassers Disrupt Racist Narratives
The Left can—and must—win rural voters. By addressing both race and class, these canvassers are showing how it’s done.
BY JORDAN GREEN
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