Thursday, March 28, 2019

Selections from the April 15, 2019 issue

COVER/Laura Paddison
US has a dire shortage of affordable homes, and Trump wants to make it worse


EDITORIAL
Show Mueller’s work


LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

DON ROLLINS
Trump’s symbiotic relationship with big media


RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Strain on small colleges is another blow for rural America


DISPATCHES
Trump seeks revenge as Russia probe threat wanes;
Trump campaign warns networks against booking some Democrats;
Trump really can’t stand Puerto Rico;
Clean energy cheaper than coal;
Coal companies veto Trump nominee who opposed coal bailout;
Midwest flooding will cost billions in damages;
Trump policies are destroying the American farm and no one knows how to stop it;
DACA flight attendant released after 6 weeks in ICE custody ... 


BOB BURNETT
Trump and the economy


JOHN YOUNG
The payoffs almost no one talks about


JILL RICHARDSON
Politicians are finally catching up on marijuana


ELIZABETH HENDERSON
Organic farms are under attack from agribusiness, weakened standards


ART CULLEN
Rural America is ready for some sort of a new deal, preferably green


JOHN SARBANES and MICHAEL BRUNE
To clean up the planet, clean up Washington


GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Transform the court


JOEL D. JOSEPH
The Trumps and Jared Kushner cheated their way into elite colleges


LEO GERARD
The big cheat


GENE NICHOL
Legacy preferences


BOOK REVIEW/Seth Sandronsky
Making a better world


BOOK REVIEW/Heather Seggel
Flag overboard


HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Yes we can fleece the customer


SAM URETSKY
Why is it urban liberals vs. rural conservatives


NORMAN SOLOMON
‘Speaking truth to power’ is no substitute for taking power


WAYNE O’LEARY
The left’s achilles heel


JOHN BUELL
Clear Jared Kushner — and the rest of us


KENT PATERSON
Mexican border workers rattle the NAFTA economy


ROB PATTERSON
Time for the left to start rallying too


ROB PATTERSON
Browse a bookstore while you can


FILM REVIEW/Ed Rampell
Citizen Pulitzer: Patron Saint of the oppressed


SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson
How many days would it take?


CHUCK COLLINS
Bring back Eisenhower socialism


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