Saturday, April 27, 2019

Selections from the May 15, 2019 issue

COVER/Daniel Marans and Jonathan Cohn
Bernie Sanders welcomes war with insurance industry over Medicare for All


EDITORIAL
Let the chips fall


LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

DON ROLLINS
Coal towns, their past and present


RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Kick a bully if it’s Monsanto


DISPATCHES
Trump lawsuit to block congressional oversight reads like his tweets;
Modest projections about NAFTA 2.0 economic gains makes passage unlikely;
Social Security trust fund will reach zero in 2035, trustees say;
Earth Day founder thinks we're close to political breakthrough on climate;
Warren student debt cancellation plan helps most vulnerable;
Trump unpopularity spreads to battleground states;
Trump and Pence tweeted about Notre Dame fire but ignord 3 black churches burned in Louisiana;
Global economy could save $160 trillion by shifting to renewables;
Sen. Richard Burr leaked Trump-linked targets of FBI probe to White House


JIM GOODMAN
Don’t fall for the hype of free trade agreements


JOHN YOUNG
‘Stick it to them’ policies that have stuck

JILL RICHARDSON
Why is going green so hard? Because our system isn’t


SETH SANDRONSKY
Extinction rebellion


ART CULLEN
Beto has some beef, plus star power


BARRY FRIEDMAN
Me and Joe on the line


HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas 
A president hog-wild about pork


SAM URETSKY
House call program brings dentistry to seniors who don’t have their own foundation


MIKE KUHLENBECK
Nothing to smile about: The inequality gap in dental care


WAYNE O’LEARY
Single-payer and its enemies


JOHN BUELL
Democracy vs the bipartisan consensus


GENE NICHOL
N.C.’s continuing crusade against democracy


BOOK REVIEW/Heather Seggel 
Pleasure principles


ROB PATTERSON
Bingeing blue


SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson 
Orange you glad he’s our president?


FILM REVIEW/Ed Rampell 
Much ado about little


KELLY MARTIN
How the White House spent Earth Day


TODD LARSEN
The planetary cost of Amazon’s convenience

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