Friday, September 14, 2018

Selections from the October 1, 2018 issue

COVER/Kevin Robillard
Progressives will lead Democrats in some of 2018’s biggest contests


EDITORIAL
Economic royalists remain


LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

DON ROLLINS
Redistricting plan changes everything (and nothing)


RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
What are the Pols going to do for my town?


DISPATCHES p. 5
US split on Kavanaugh confirmation; hearings didn’t help.
Obama embraces Medicare for all.
GOP on Obama: He made us elect a racist idiot.
Trump’s lie count passes 4,713.
After blowing up deficit with tax cuts, Republicans want credit for fiscal responsibility.
Texas leads lawsuit to overturn health care for pre-existing conditions.
DACA gets win in court from judge who thinks it’s illegal.
Trump team returns EPA to Reagan-era staffing level ...


ART CULLEN
Candidate shows up early, listens carefully


JILL RICHARDSON
Imagine our economy as a game of ‘Monopoly’


JOHN YOUNG
Republicans strap on an orange suicide vest


ROBERT BOROSAGE
It’s time for progressives to raise their game


SAM PIZZIGATI
How to recognize a plutocracy: The dead giveaway


BOB BURNETT
It’s the corruption, stupid


SETH SANDRONSKY
Free and unfree labor alliance


FRANK CLEMENTE
Check your wallet: Can you find the $4k Trump promised you?


HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Health policy: A little good news


SAM URETSKY
Are liberals and conservatives wired differently? 


BASAY SEN
Killing for coal (literally)


WAYNE O’LEARY
The woman who would kill health care


JOHN BUELL
Race, slavery, and the politics of welfare


BOOK REVIEW/Heather Seggel
The story in the numbers


SHERRY BRENNAN
You can teach kids hard work, but feed them first


SATIRE/Barry Friedman
Annotated text of Donald Trump’s eulogy for John McCain


ROB PATTERSON
The red’s turned to gray, but Willie’s welcome to stay


SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson
And God said ...


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


GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Corporate censorship is still censorship

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