July 2020
Cover Story
Alone Together in the Pandemic
How we lost our social spaces and how we found them again
Features
Disaster Relief for Small Businesses Is a Disaster All Its Own
The Small Business Administration will always fail the people it's meant to help.
Buddymandering
Why redistricting reform so often goes off the rails
Interview
'People Should Have the Fundamental Right To Change Their Consciousness'
Rick Doblin, a leading force in America's psychedelic renaissance, imagines a world of "mass mental health" facilitated by formerly demonized drugs.
Topics
Trump's Bump Stock Ban Is Under Fire From His Own Judicial Appointees
California NIMBYs Aren't Letting the COVID-19 Crisis Go to Waste
Pollyanna Was Not a Pollyanna
The surprising wisdom of a long-misunderstood classic.
Books
Drugs and Ammo
A look at war through the lens of the performance enhancers that help make it possible
The Double Lives Hidden in the Census
Strange stories from the history of head counts
Reviews
ETC.
Michael Munger Says 'Price Gouging' Gives Us Information We Need
Brickbats: July 2020
News of politicians, police, and bureaucrats behaving badly from around the world
