Selections from the September 1, 2018 issue

COVER/Tom Cullen
What a trade war costs the farm

EDITORIAL
Foreign and domestic election hacks

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

DON ROLLINS
Rappers, slammers and duffers

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Farmers go broke working for corporations

DISPATCHES
GOP wants to kill single-payer by scaring seniors;
Trump puts dozens of House seats in play—for Dems;
Trump tops 4,229 lies in August;
Inflation keeps going up, but wages are going down;
Labor wins right-to-work fight in Mo.;
New Trump ‘reform’: Make it easier for payday lenders to scam military families;
Socialism approval rises under Trump;
Bayer shares plunge after $289M cancer liability of merger partner Monsanto;
We're dangerously close to climate death spiral, new study warns;
Pettiest prez ever excludes mention of McCain at signing of bill named in his honor;
Collapse of Sinclair TV mega-merger a huge win for viewers ...

ART CULLEN
Julio is gone

JILL RICHARDSON
The organic food industry thrives on regulation

JOHN YOUNG
Cyber-reality and he who cries ‘fake news’

JIM GOODMAN & SIENA CHRISMAN
A $12 billion PR stunt

JIM VAN DER POL
Hollowed-out communities and dispossessed people lifted Trump

BOB BURNETT
Trump supporters, hiding in plain sight

BASAV SEN
Want to create jobs? Reduce fossil fuel use

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Breasts: Allure and utility

SAM URETSKY
Getting old and going under

BOOK REVIEW/Seth Sandronsky
Rethinking hi-tech

WAYNE O’LEARY
The two populisms

JOHN BUELL
Crime of the century or garden-variety hack?

BOOK REVIEW/Heather Seggel
Seedlings of change

MARK ANDERSON
Time to turn the page on electronic voting?

ROB PATTERSON
Spy shows explore shadows and half lights

SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson
The art of the steal

MOVIE REVIEW/Ed Rampell
Infiltrate hate: Spike Lee’s ‘BlacKkKlansman’

CHRIS PETERSEN
I’m a small farmer from Iowa. Why does Trump want to take my health care?

EMILY SCHWARTZ GRECO
Remembering Donald Kaul