Saturday, June 15, 2019

Selections from the July 1-15, 2019 issue

COVER/Art Cullen
Anxious farmers search for rainbow amid floods and trade war


EDITORIAL
Trump’s Twitter trade wars


LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

DON ROLLINS
Eating as an act of protest


HEALTH CARE/Margot McMillen
Hog confinements change neighborhoods


DISPATCHES
Support for impeachment rises with GOP Rep. Justin Amash;
Trump lags in battleground states;
Iowa Poll points to Dem top tier;
Supreme Court will hear attack on anti-discrimination law;
Kushner co. got $90M from anonymous offshore investors;
Trump pushes 20 years in prison for pipeline protesters;
Texas keeps low ranking in maternal health:
Arctic death spiral speeds up sixfold, driving coastal permafrost collapse;
ICE has no idea how many veterans it has deported, watchdog report finds;
Abortion ban poised to take effect in Alabama, where rapists can sue for custody;
Trump-voting truckers turn on prez after their taxes jump $8,000 ...


BEN LILLISTON
Taking farmers for a ride


CHRISTY SPEES
If we want antibiotics to work, consumers have to put pressure on factory farms


JILL RICHARDSON
Celebrating Pride, mindfully


JOHN YOUNG
Crime of the century and its beneficiary


GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Democrats need to reclaim immigration narrative


BOB BURNETT
Trump’s road to Armageddon


JASON SIBERT
Negative nationalism sells guns


PAUL CIENFUEGOS
When will politicians start exercising their constitutional authority to rein in large corporations like Amazon?


GENE NICHOL
Look, mom, we built a border wall!


PETER CERTO
A Father’s Day gift for myself: activism


MARK ANDERSON
Do not ask for whom the road tolls


HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Micro points of light: distracted driving in the states


SAM URETSKY
We need a scale on ‘soft sciences’


SETH SANDRONSKY
Business and Medicare for All


WAYNE O’LEARY
Getting Bernie


JOHN BUELL
Neoliberalism and privatization are driving our crises, from Guatemala to Moscow


JOEL D. JOSEPH
National service and college loans


ROB PATTERSON
Sam Cooke’s wonderful voice survives


SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson
Meet your new leaders: FATGM


FILM REVIEW/Ed Rampell
Terry Gilliam’s quixotic quest: Mancha ado about...?

and more ...

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