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View this email in your browser Tuesday July 7, 2020 The Impossible Math of the Pandemic Parents are working while their kids stay home from school. Grocery budgets are thin. Rents are due. This was never sustainable. By J.C. Pan Advertising The People Killed the PipelinesThe Dakota Access and Atlantic Coast pipelines fell because community members fought for their right to a safe, pollutant-free home. By Nick Martin The Wrong Way to Grapple With a Public Health CrisisThe New York Times has either made a grave category error or they've given up on the idea of solving America's health insurance problem. By Libby Watson Policing Doesn’t Protect Women The president’s latest futile attempt to block a critical tell-all book proves that he was never the political genius the media made him out to be. By Isabel Cristo Advertising Reckoning With Anti-Blackness in Indian CountryNative lives won’t matter unless Black lives do. By Nick Martin The Left’s Deafening Silence on China’s Ethnic CleansingAnti-imperialist leftists can’t afford to cede this issue to centrist Democrats and the Trumpist right. By Casey Michel Monopolies Make Their Own RulesZephyr Teachout’s new book lays bare the private legal system that shores up their immense power—and hides it from public view. By Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein Advertising Support Independent, Issue-Driven Journalism Special July Fourth Sale: 3 Months for $5 Donate Twitter Facebook Instagram Copyright © 2020 The New Republic, All rights reserved. Try one of our new newsletters by updating your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.