Saturday, January 11, 2020

Selections from the February 1, 2020 issue

COVER/John Vidal
The lost decade: How we awoke to climate change only to squander every chance to act


EDITORIAL
Making a martyr; Candidates, on your marks

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

DON ROLLINS
Sallie McFague remembered


RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Grade presidential candidates on farm and food issues


DISPATCHES
Explosive report indicates Trump loans from Deutsche Bank were backed by Russia;
Trump tipped off Mar-a-Lago pals to expect ‘big’ Iran action;
Trump claims tweets are sufficient notice to Congess that US may strike Iran;
Trump threats against Iranian sites raise potential of war crimes;
Iranian general killed by Trump may have been working on peace deal;
Trump stil ‘underwater’ in key battleground states;
Pence claims Iran ties to 9/11 attacks;
Dem trying to flip Graham’s Senate seat reports record haul;
Iranian Americans, returning home from Canada, detained, interrogated by Border agents ...


ART CULLEN
The last bus stops in Iowa on Feb. 3


NORMAN SOLOMON
Progressives need a united front for Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren


JILL RICHARDSON
The Education Department is ripping off defrauded students


JOHN YOUNG
Happy New Year from the conserva-myth party


GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Greider told the people


TOM JOHNSTON
Democrats can win the Medicare for All debate and the 2020 elections


N. GUNASEKARAN
Trade war was deadly to Asia’s poor


MICHAEL WINSHIP
In Trump world, fiction is just as strange as truth


KARL GROSSMAN
Trump gets Space Force to assert domination


BOB BURNETT
2019: Ten reasons to be thankful


HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Scrooge lives: A new chapter if the history of food stamps


SAM URETSKY
Trump followers living in another world


SETH SANDRONSKY
Business and the rising minimum wage


WAYNE O’LEARY
The trouble with Obamacare


JOHN BUELL
Australia: The fire this time


SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson
“Dreaming of a White Christmas,” as sung by Kim Jong Un


KENT PATERSON
Who really rules El Paso? 


ROB PATTERSON
OK, so Quentin Tarantino has some talent ...


BOOK REVIEW/Heather Seggel
When the narrative gets kidnapped


MOVIE REVIEW/Ed Rampell
Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life is an anti-war triumph


GENE NICHOL
Trump’s economic cruelty


and more ...

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