Saturday, July 27, 2019

Selections from the August 15, 2019 issue

COVER/Dr. Caroline Poplin
Medicare for All — What’s necessary and what’s not


EDITORIAL
Call it fascism


LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

DON ROLLINS
Betsy DeVos on education: Voucherize, privatize and segregate


HEALTH CARE/Margot McMillen
Terrorizing immigrants


DISPATCHES
Sex trafficking prosecutions plummet under Trump;
Budget deal outrages hawks;
Trump lags in ‘battleground’ states;
Mitch McConnell is only senator more unpopular than Susan Collins;
Federal agencies’ plans to move out of D.C. slammed as ‘anti-science’;
Trump heat wave: Just a taste of what’s to come;
Trump’s EPA favors chemical industry over kids;
Trump wants to profit off meeting with world leaders;
Coal towns face financial collapse;
Rural hospital closures affect empoyment and wages ... 


ART CULLEN
Rural vote is about abortion, not immigration


JOSEPH B. ATKINS 
Kissing industry’s butt in Laurel, Miss.


JILL RICHARDSON
Weapons of the weak


JOHN YOUNG
That oath was Trump’s first lie in office


LEO GERARD
Is there a future for unions?


GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet 
The real race card


GENE NICHOL
The best friend of North Carolina fire breathers


JOEL D. JOSEPH  
Gerrymandering and the Supreme Court

D.H. KERBY
ICE holds activist after poetry reading


BOB BURNETT
The economy and the election


MARK ANDERSON
Texas bans pipeline protests


HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas 
The true demons


SAM URETSKY
Little-known democratic presidential contendors deserve a look, too


BOOK REVIEW/Heather Seggel 
The battle continues


WAYNE O’LEARY
American conservatism’s China dolls


JOHN BUELL
Neoliberalism down on the farm


DAVID SCHMIDT
Pluralism, partnerships and prosecutions: Church and state in contemporary Mexico


ROSS ROSENFELD
My daughters will not grow up with Disney. Here’s why.


ROB PATTERSON
Woodstock at 50


SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson 
Pandora, the box


MOVIE REVIEW/Ed Rampell 
Tenement lament’s testament

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