Friday, March 12, 2021

Selections from the April 1, 2021 issue

 COVER/Hal Crowther

Staring down the barrel in the land of the smoking gun

EDITORIAL 
Democrats take big win


FRANK LINGO
Creating a fair standard of living on all Indian reservations in the US

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

DON ROLLINS
Lebron, Ibra and Fox News: A yawner gone wrong

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Hold off the land grabbers

DISPATCHES
Republican incompetence makes federal government popular again.
Dems hail big spending, with an eye on infrastructure package. 
Supreme Court dumps last Trump election appeal. 
If democracy loses to money, it may not rise again. 
Lindsey Graham admits Trump could ‘destroy’ the GOP, after he sends RNC a cease-and-desist letter. 
Trump vandalism at USDA is just conservative government.
Republican governors roll back COVID-19 restrictions — and health experts are horrified.
Held back out of fear of Trump, female generals finally get promoted by Biden.
Post-insurrection crackdown on far-right extremists leads to arrests, charges around the country.
The call (to the Proud Boys) is coming from inside the (White) House ...

ART CULLEN
Midwest in the catbird’s seat to make history

ALAN GUEBERT
Rural America shouldn’t be a dump site for corporate America 


JILL RICHARDSON
The long history of ‘America Uncanceled’

JOHN YOUNG 
Deregulation always benefits — somebody

ROBERT P. ALVAREZ and UMA NAGARAJAN-SWENSON
Biden needs to keep promises on immigration

STEVEN ROSENFELD 
Republicans trying to restrict voting may see their schemes backfire 

TOM CONWAY 
Keeping America self-reliant

SARAH ANDERSON 
Danny Glover: ‘The best anti-poverty program is a union’

ESHAWNEY GASTON 
Essential workers deserve $15 an hour

KAYLA SOREN 
Small towns and rural communities need transit, too


ROBERTO Dr. CINTLI RODRIGUEZ  
Where all lands and all peoples are sacred

D.H. KERBY 
Poor people’s army accupies vacant homes

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas  
Welcome, COVID-submicrobes, class of 2027

SAM URETSKY
Rescuing the climate is complicated

BOOK REVIEW/Seth Sandronsky p. 15
Mapping COVID-19

WAYNE O’LEARY 
The disloyal opposition

JOHN BUELL 
Fallacies of minimum wage opponents

DICK POLMAN 
FBI guy says Antifa didn’t storm the Capitol, but MAGA loons still love their big lie


BOB BURNETT 
The disinformation party


BOOK REVIEW/Heather Seggel  
The burnout is real

ROB PATTERSON 
Rock’n’Roll is wreckless abandon on a good night

SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson  
Take that, you monster

REBEKAH ENTRALGO 
Paid sick and family leave can’t wait

MOVIE REVIEW/Ed Rampell  
Black movies matter: Pan African Film Festival goes virtual


GENE NICHOL 
Lincoln and the GOP

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