Selections from the September 15, 2021 issue

 COVER/Char Miller 

Climate change keeps wildfires coming back

EDITORIAL
Trump botched the Afghan exit

FRANK LINGO
Hell on Earth: Warming gone wild

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

DON ROLLINS 
Remembering Trumka, labor champion

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Seek reconciliation, not revenge

DISPATCHES 
Trump enablers try to rewrite their own Afghanistan history. 
Who opposed helping US allies in Afghanistan? 
Ending unemployment benefits early didn’t reduce unemployment. 
Trump suggests vaccination, his cultists boo. 
Pfizer vaccine gets full FDA approval. 
Poll shows 81% welcome Afghan allies who helped us,
Report says Feds targeted Black Lives Matter protesters.
Saying crazy stuff all the time has consequences ...

ART CULLEN
We will not be denied our freedom to consume ourselves

ALAN GUEBERT 
Like a SNAP

JILL RICHARDSON 
The GOP’s election lies are stale, but the stakes are high

JOHN YOUNG 
‘COVID slide’ is the least of our concerns

JASON SIBERT 
Curb chemical weapons

ROBERT KUTTNER 
Biden’s 180-degree shift on trade policy

DICK POLMAN 
On Afghanistan, can we all just take a chill pill? 

TOM CONWAY
Keeping storms at bay

REBEKAH ENTRALGO 
A chance to protect our essential workers

SETH SANDRONSKY 
Contract this

BONNY GARDNER  
Politics of loss and grievance: Why whites in the rural south support Donald Trump

THOM HARTMANN
Why conservatives want government to fail everywhere

ROBERTO RODRIGUEZ 
A triple code red for humanity

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas  
Mark of sanity in health-news

SAM URETSKY 
Developing killing machines

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
We’ve seen this movie before

WAYNE O’LEARY 
Bipartisan Joe

JOHN BUELL
Neoliberal hierarchies and Cuomo’s toxic workplace

MOVIE REVIEW/David Schmidt
‘New Order’: Dystopian Mexican film draws from the real-life horror of military dictatorships

BARRY FRIEDMAN
Reinstatement day in America

BOOK REVIEW/Heather Seggel  
Joining our struggles

JOSEPH B. ATKINS 
Edwin Edwards, the last of the Louisiana populists? 

SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson  
Cuomo 2.0

MOVIE REVIEW/Ed Rampell
Prometheus unbound: ‘Not going quietly’ is an ode to activism

GENE NICHOL 
North Carolina untroubled by high child poverty

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