Friday, March 15, 2019

Selections from the April 1, 2019 issue

COVER/Austin Frerick
Fixing our food system — and reviving rural America — means breaking up big ag


EDITORIAL
Dems fight for the vote


LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

DON ROLLINS
Methodism revisited: No turning back


RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Don’t Bern the Dems’ hopes


DISPATCHES
Trump budget reneges on promises to protect Social Security and Medicare;
Republicans reserve the right to bash Muslims, minorities;
Trump tells blackface joke at RNC fundraiser;
Trump tops 9,000 lies;
Rate of illegal crossings from Canada rising nearly as rapidly as US border with Mexico;
Sunday morning talk shows ignore Trump massage parlor scandal;
Trump asks UK to drop food and environmental standards for post-Brexit trade deal;
Household net worth falls by lagest amount since Great Recession ...


JIM VAN DER POL
Sustainable farms depend on soil health


JILL RICHARDSON
Starving kids won’t help them study


ART CULLEN
Julián Castro is resetting the Latino image in Iowa


NANETTE SENTERS
GM is closing my plant. What are politicians going to do about it?


JOHN YOUNG
What percent of Cohen’s testimony don’t you believe?


SARAH GERTLER
Criticizing Israel isn’t anti-semitic. Here’s what is. 


SAM PIZZIGATI
Have the rich always laughed at stiff taxes?


BOB BURNETT
Costing the Green New Deal


HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
How to slay the Medicare beast: A handy guide


SAM URETSKY
Millennials are changing the world, whether you like it or not


BARB KALBACH
Rural America needs Medicare for All now


WAYNE O’LEARY
The ‘S’ word


JOHN BUELL
Reclaiming the peace dividend


N. GUNASEKARAN
Nuclear tensions increase after failed Trump-Kim summit


SETH SANDRONSKY
Public pensions finance immigrant detention


ROB PATTERSON
Elvis Costello’s worn out genius


BOOK REVIEW/Heather Seggel
Who listens to the negro?


ED RAMPELL
Hollywood’s ‘other’ awards ceremony


SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson
Trump fall down go boom


KARLA MOLINAR-ARVIZO
Worse than the wall


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