Saturday, September 1, 2018

Selections from the September 15, 2018 issue

COVER/Leo W. Gerard
Workers get scammed in the new economy — as corporations get richer and more powerful


EDITORIAL
NAFTA 2.0: Details bedevil


LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

DON ROLLINS
A tale of two counties


KAYLA KITSON
Scoring Trump’s tax cuts so far: $280K for rich lawmakers, pennies for working people


DISPATCHES
Health care motivates voters — and physicians run as Democratic candidates;
Trump, GOP play down Obama economic gains;
Republicans predict probes if Dems take over;
Student loan watchdog quits, claiming Trump ‘failed borrowers’;
Trump lied about Paris climate deal, his own EPA confirms;
Democrats limit role of superdelegates;
Judge strikes down Trump orders in win for federal unions;
Maine's top court orders Gov. LePage to stop ignoring Medicaid mandate;
Republican staffers tied to allegedly forged signatures on petitions to spoil opponent's vote ...


ART CULLEN
Tickling Trump’s ear


JILL RICHARDSON
Here out West, ‘smoke season’ keeps getting worse


JIM VAN DER POL
Keeping farms in the economy


BOB BURNETT
Will the economy determine the midterms?


SAM PIZZIGATI
If your boss makes millions, it’s not because of the ‘market’


LIDWINA BELL
Schools need resources, not ‘school resource officers’


JASON SIBERT
Real home security includes affordable housing


MARK ANDERSON
Cancer-causing herbicide found in breakfast cereal


HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
The dark side of paradise: Decision time


SAM URETSKY
Trump berates the ‘fake news’ that made him president


SETH SANDRONSKY
School reform lands in federal court


WAYNE O’LEARY
Losing it


JOHN BUELL
Civil War and popular memory


N. GUNASEKARAN
Former cricketer’s dream of new Pakistan and hard realities


PETER CERTO
Trump snubbed McCain. The media snubbed the rest of us.


HEATHER SEGGEL
What democracy looks like


ROB PATTERSON
Bobby Kennedy: What might have been


SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson
Oh, the injustice of it all


ED RAMPELL
Congresswoman Maxine Waters awarded at play featuring ‘slaves in epaulettes’

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