Thursday, February 14, 2019

Selections from the March 1, 2019 issue

COVER/Elizabeth Henderson
Why sustainable agriculture should support a Green New Deal


EDITORIAL
Don’t play Trump’s game


LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

DON ROLLINS
New journalism and the truth behind the facts


RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Plant milkweed and trees for life


DISPATCHES
Trump tax ‘cuts’ may become political disaster.
Trump tells at least 28 lies in State of the Union speech.
NAFTA rewrite would lock in high med prices.
Black Virginians support Gov. Northam in blackface scandal.
Green New Deal reflects 2016 Democratic platform, but stronger.
Senate Leader McConnell linked to Russian oligarchs as sanctions lifted.
Loss of newspapers leads to political polarization.
ICE confirms asylum seekers on hunger strike ae being force-fed.
Trump trade war pushes farmers into record number of bankruptcies.


JIM VAN DER POL
Nursing the soil back to life


JOHN YOUNG
Third-party math is Trump’s fondest calculation


JILL RICHARDSON
People who seek mental health treatment should be applauded


ART CULLEN
Can candidates define the national conversation for 2020 amid the chaos?


ART CULLEN
What is a ‘Green’ New Deal?


BOB BURNETT
State of the Union 2019: Two visions


JOEL D. JOSEPH
States should squeeze college coaches to lower tuition and house students


PETER CERTO
People who care about democracy don’t plot coups abroad


GENE NICHOL
A minimal wage


JOSH HOXIE
How the age of billionaires ends


JAMES EGGERT
The real crisis


FR. DONNELL KIRCHNER
What is right and what is wrong?


SAM URETSKY
How little pharma grew up


HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Canaries and the politics of immiseration


SETH SANDRONSKY
Activists, banks and for-profit immigrant prisons


WAYNE O’LEARY
Corruption incorporated


JOHN BUELL
The return of the strike?


KENT PATERSON
The hot honeymoon of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador


BARRY FRIEDMAN
Can we all just lighten up about Howard Schultz? 


SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson
Tidying up with Trump


ROB PATTERSON
Blacklist and blue


BOOK REVIEW/Heather Seggel
Fear ... and loathing, but mostly fear


THEATRE REVIEW/Ed Rampell
‘Birds of Passage’ depicts the devastation of drug trafficking for South America’s indigenous people

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