Letters From the August 24/31, 2020, Issue Letters From the August 24/31, 2020, Issue
An ounce of prevention… Abortion and the court… Color-blind reporting…
Aug 11, 2020 / Our Readers and Maia Hibbett
Woody Guthrie Lives! Woody Guthrie Lives!
Fighting Trump’s attack on our postal system.
Aug 11, 2020 / OppArt / Mike Shine
It’s Time to Abolish Nursing Homes It’s Time to Abolish Nursing Homes
If three out of four Americans want to spend their final years at home, why do so many of us end up in institutional care?
Aug 11, 2020 / Feature / Sara Luterman
Cuomo’s Administration Faces Questioning Over Its Handling of Nursing Home Covid Deaths Cuomo’s Administration Faces Questioning Over Its Handling of Nursing Home Covid Deaths
Democratic and Republican lawmakers want to know why the state’s Department of Health counts deaths so strangely.
Aug 10, 2020 / Ross Barkan
Inconvenient by Design Inconvenient by Design
Black Lives Matter Protests continue in New York and around the country.
Aug 10, 2020 / OppArt / Cathleen Campbell
Could Wonder Woman Save Us From Covid-19? Could Wonder Woman Save Us From Covid-19?
Our leaders are as bad as any comic book villain. But even they might be no match for Wonder Woman’s Lasso of Truth—or Spider-man’s web shooters or Shuri’s brain.
Aug 10, 2020 / Elie Mystal
Love Mask Love Mask
Masks save lives. A part of a multi-panel community mural created by Los Muralistas de El Puente in Domino Park in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Aug 7, 2020 / OppArt / Juan Carlos Pinto
The NCAA Finally Faces a Reckoning The NCAA Finally Faces a Reckoning
The pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement, and a long-thwarted push for economic justice has players on the march and the NCAA on defense.
Aug 7, 2020 / Dave Zirin
Stupid Scientific Reality! Stupid Scientific Reality!
A history of egghead ideas.
Aug 6, 2020 / OppArt / Josh Gosfield