Print Magazine April 13, 2020, Issue Cover art by: Victor Juhasz Purchase Current Issue or Login to Download the PDF of this Issue Download the PDF of this Issue Editorial My Anxious Wife Is Stockpiling Pop-Tarts! What Should I Do? Another readers asks how to show solidarity amid lockdown. Liza Featherstone This Was Never Just About Woody Allen. It Still Isn’t. Against the vice cop of the mind. JoAnn Wypijewski Bailouts Are Coming. Here’s How to Make Them Fair. If we are going to make taxpayers bail out big business, we need to insist that they keep workers on payroll—and pay them fairly. Bryce Covert for The Nation What the GOP Is Doing While You Struggle to Breathe … Read More Jen Sorensen How South Korea Triumphed, and the US Floundered, Over the Pandemic Testing, national health care, and transparency saved the day. Tim Shorrock Column The Coronavirus Will Test Whether We’ve Learned Anything From 9/11 Many of us would be happy to exchange some basic rights for safety right now, but we have to be vigilant about protecting our liberties. Elie Mystal Mixed Message Calvin Trillin Letters Letters From the April 13, 2020, Issue Making the case… Our Readers Feature How a Human Rights Lawyer Went From Hero to House Arrest Lawyer Steven Donziger helped win a $9.5 billion judgment for rain forest cleanup. Then Chevron hit back. James North Union-Busting in the Name of God Catholic universities are relying on a religious exemption to avoid recognizing workers’ rights—and workers are appealing to Catholic values to fight back. Amy Littlefield How to Win in Wisconsin Democrats have a shot to win the state in the November presidential election, but the 2020 strategy has to speak directly to Wisconsinites’ needs. John Nichols Books & the Arts The Strange and Often Radical Pursuit of Immortality in Russia A new book looks at the history of a century-long movement to create life after death. Sophie Pinkham Margaret Atwood’s Dystopian Imagination What can we learn from the novelist’s sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale? Katherine Hill Lyric Zohar Atkins love poem (you’re a little too good at speaking on my behalf) Stephanie Young Tame Impala Is Feeling Serenity Now The Australian band’s contemplative new album finds calm in its stadium rock ambitions. Marcus J. Moore Recent Issues See All "swipe left below to view more recent issues"Swipe → January 2025 December 2024 November 2024 October 2024 September 2024 August 2024 See All x
My Anxious Wife Is Stockpiling Pop-Tarts! What Should I Do? Another readers asks how to show solidarity amid lockdown. Liza Featherstone
This Was Never Just About Woody Allen. It Still Isn’t. Against the vice cop of the mind. JoAnn Wypijewski
Bailouts Are Coming. Here’s How to Make Them Fair. If we are going to make taxpayers bail out big business, we need to insist that they keep workers on payroll—and pay them fairly. Bryce Covert for The Nation
How South Korea Triumphed, and the US Floundered, Over the Pandemic Testing, national health care, and transparency saved the day. Tim Shorrock
The Coronavirus Will Test Whether We’ve Learned Anything From 9/11 Many of us would be happy to exchange some basic rights for safety right now, but we have to be vigilant about protecting our liberties. Elie Mystal
How a Human Rights Lawyer Went From Hero to House Arrest Lawyer Steven Donziger helped win a $9.5 billion judgment for rain forest cleanup. Then Chevron hit back. James North
Union-Busting in the Name of God Catholic universities are relying on a religious exemption to avoid recognizing workers’ rights—and workers are appealing to Catholic values to fight back. Amy Littlefield
How to Win in Wisconsin Democrats have a shot to win the state in the November presidential election, but the 2020 strategy has to speak directly to Wisconsinites’ needs. John Nichols
The Strange and Often Radical Pursuit of Immortality in Russia A new book looks at the history of a century-long movement to create life after death. Sophie Pinkham
Margaret Atwood’s Dystopian Imagination What can we learn from the novelist’s sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale? Katherine Hill
Tame Impala Is Feeling Serenity Now The Australian band’s contemplative new album finds calm in its stadium rock ambitions. Marcus J. Moore