Selections from the September 1, 2019 issue

COVER/Bill Curry
Are the Democrats divided? No — they’re poised to win big if they don’t screw it up

EDITORIAL
Hateful words and guns

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

DON ROLLINS
Toni Morrison: Prophet with a sharp pen

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Don’t count on trees to capture carbon

DISPATCHES
Most Americans think white nationalism poses threat to US;
Gun control support rises, one mass shooting at a time;
Trump tops 12,000 lies;
NH GOP gov vetoes bipartisan redistricting plan;
Big bank: writing on the wall for oil industry;
Trump will ban poor immigrants;
Trump tariffs cost US households $500 each
White House violated law with plan to move hundreds of USDA workers;
China tries to teach Trump economics ...

ART CULLEN
Time to change is now

PABLO PRATT
The value of community college

JILL RICHARDSON
You don’t save money by forcing people to go hungry

JOHN YOUNG
GOP, religious right wedded in moral rot

BOB BURNETT
The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming!

DR. SANJEEV K. SRIRAM
Republican attacks on the Social Security 2100 Act are an assault on public health

ANDREA GERMANOS
Bolstering call to expand Social Security, new reporting reveals how corporations are offloading pensions

GLORIA OLADIPO
Trump’s new coal rules will bury rural America

WILLIAM MINTER
The Green New Deal must be global

TOM CONWAY
Trump’s lies to labor

GENE NICHOL
Missing Barbara Jordan

HAL CROWTHER
No turning back: Trump crosses the Rubicon

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Incremental: The verboten word

SAM URETSKY
Mule-headed Republicans

BOOK REVIEW/Heather Seggel
Making the news

WAYNE O’LEARY
Why Trump may win

JOHN BUELL
Neoliberalism from table to gut

KENT PATERSON
Trump-AMLO ‘lovefest’ jeopardizes Mexico’s fourth transformation

JASON SIBERT
Populists on right and left struggle with globalists

FR. DONNELL KIRCHNER
Is the old order passing away?

ROB PATTERSON
‘The War’ is still going on

SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson
Trouble right here in River City

MOVIE REVIEW/Ed Rampell
The Rock gets back to his roots as Samoa gets the Black Panther treatment: South Seas cinema stars in action series spin-off

BOOK REVIEW/Seth Sandronsky
Rethinking the GDR

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