Saturday, February 17, 2018

Selections from the March 1, 2018 issue

COVER/Robert Borosage
Can Democrats catch a wave in 2018?


EDITORIAL
Know your enemies


LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

DON ROLLINS
Black History Month: Why it still matters


RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Take some time off from social media


DISPATCHES
Trump gives $1.5T to rich, takes $1.7T from poor;
White House proposes to cut finance watchdog, limit its enforcement powers;
Steep cuts proposed for EPA;
Trump shortchanges infrastructure plan;
Trump proposes to sell off airports, power providers, other assets;
Trump can’t turn on lights in Puerto Rico, but coal barons problem is ‘emergency’;
Sessions praises ‘Anglo-American law enforcement’;
Trump's controversial pick to run Census withdraws;
Fed agency yanks press credentials of journo who won't censor story;
Net neutrality supporters press for congressional review;
GOP tries to rein in courts ...


ART CULLEN
Times are changing


JILL RICHARDSON
Colleges are screwing both teachers and students 


JIM GOODMAN
Free trade should benefit the people, not corporations


HAL CROWTHER
Year one: Eclipsing Andrew Johnson


JOEL D. JOSEPH
President Trump’s made in the USA report card


HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
States: Laboratories of penury


SAM URETSKY
Get shots first, ask questions later


SETH SANDRONSKY
Cloning monkeys: Are humans next?


WAYNE O’LEARY
The new gilded age


JOHN BUELL
False alarms and nuclear realism


GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Going nuclear — again


BOOK REVIEW/Heather Seggel
Notes from the photocopier, resistance in the days before the internet


BOB BURNETT
Great imposters: Reagan and Trump


THOM HARTMANN
GOP is wrecking your retirement savings


ROB PATTERSON
Johnny Cash remains a hero


SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson
Reward: To anyone who can help Matt Lauer find his soul


MOVIES/Ed Rampell
The best of all philosophical operettas


and more ...
The next issue of The Progressive Populist will be published March 3

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