Friday, August 12, 2016

Selections from the September 1, 2016 issue

COVER/Hal Crowther
Summer of our discontent


EDITORIAL
Berniecrats’ choice


LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

DON ROLLINS
Was Elie Weisel our last best thinker? 


RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Know what you eat, at home or on the road


DISPATCHES p. 5
Obamacare still not killing jobs;
US trade deficits up 8.7%;
Pope: capitalism is ‘terrorism against all of humanity’;
Trump’s ‘economic renewal’ starts with doubling down on fossil fuels, less regs;
Trump properties taking a beating;
Trump Taj Mahal to close after Labor Day;
Krugman warns 'no ight turn' for Clinton;
Right-wing provocateur O'Keefe flops in election fraud scam;
Nuclear plants lose money at astonishing rates;
Coal jobs decline with or without fed regs;
Sam Brownback’s loss in Kansas is everyone else’s gain;
Billionaire bonanza as wealth surges among 1%;
Fact checkers rebut Trump's 'pathetic' economic lies in real time ...


JILL RICHARDSON
Is solar energy really too expensive?


JOHN YOUNG
Democrats’ citizenship smackdown


SETH SANDRONSKY
Reducing US workplace violence


ROBERT BOROSAGE
Hillary Clinton and the choice


DAVE JOHNSON
A look at Clinton and Trump’s promises


GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Killing the killer


BOB BURNETT
5 Takeaways from the Democratic Convention


CLAIRE RATER, CAROL SPIEGEL and JIM GOODMAN
Consumers can stop the overuse of antibiotics on factory farms


HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
When facts meet rhetoric: The success of Obamacare


SAM URETSKY
Shared ignorance makes matters worse


MARK ANDERSON
Support your local beer


WAYNE O’LEARY
Is there a Brexit in America’s future?


JOHN BUELL
Liar, liar, pants on fire


JOEL D. JOSEPH
Brexit, sschmexit


WENDELL POTTER
It’s way past time for us to stop deluding ourselves about private health insurers


ROB PATTERSON
Rock gets rolled


MOVIE REVIEW/Ed Rampell
The grips of wrath in search of dreck


and more ...

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