Saturday, May 29, 2021

Selections from the June 15, 2021 issue

 COVER/Reynard Loki

If we don’t protect the natural world by 2030, Earth may be unfit for life

EDITORIAL
Republicans obstruct truth


FRANK LINGO
Methane menace: It’s a gas gas gas

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

DON ROLLINS
Meritocracy: The pain and the hope

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Who will take care of people? 

DISPATCHES
House Republicans call for raising Medicare, Social Security eligibility to 69. 
Vaccination data suggests COVID spreading among Republicans. 
Resuming in-person learning at Texas schools last fall accelerated COVID-19, study says. 
Extremists seeking political office identify as Republicans, confident the base is on their side. 
Republican governors cutting federal unemployment benefits for 4 million.
Decision to cut off federal unemployment benefits in Texas could backfire.
Their guy lost in 2020. Now they're running for statewide election posts to wreak havoc in 2022 and 2024.
Last days of Trump administration were bedlam.
Biden plans big increase in IRS funding, staffing to crack down on rich tax cheats.
Wage theft is a huge problem that requires a creative solution.
Bill would end Postal Service's crippling pre-funding mandate.


ART CULLEN
Drought a sign of a new reality

ALAN GUEBERT
Ag groups make a united, hollow call on meatpackers to play nice


JILL RICHARDSON
The bigger picture in Israel-Palestine

JOHN YOUNG
Gun lobby’s divide & conquer strategy

JOHN L. MICEK
Republicans and the return of class warfare

THOM HARTMANN
GOP is raising the next racist generation of right wing crackpots

DICK POLMAN
Hannah Arendt is long dead, but she’s hip to the lying Republican cultists

TOM CONWAY
America’s thirst

JOSEPH B. ATKINS 
Republican governors put the squeeze on the unemployed

BOB HERTZ 
‘Creeping Socialism’ would be good for America


ROBERT KUTTNER 
China and Republican economic populism


ROBERTO Dr. CINTLI RODRIGUEZ
How to teach race in Brown

TARAH HEINZEN  
Factory farms are a deadly nuisance

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas  
Costing out love, or the economics of filial duty

SAM URETSKY
Respect that puppy mama

SETH SANDRONSKY
Work to die for: COVID-19 and US labor

WAYNE O’LEARY
Working the middle

JOHN BUELL
TRIPS and the future of Big Pharma

JASON SIBERT
What about arms control? 


TRACEY L. ROGERS 
Palestinian lives matter


JOHN FEFFER 
America’s immigration solution


BOOK REVIEW/Heather Seggel  
Know it don’t thrill you, hope it don’t kill you

BOB BURNETT 
What happens next? 

SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson
Regrets, she has a few

MOVIE REVIEW/Ed Rampell
Masterpiece cinema: BFI player classics streams 200-plus British movies


GENE NICHOL
North Carolina critical race theory bill forces schools to lie

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