Saturday, December 4, 2021

Selections from the December 15, 2021 issue

 COVER/Thom Hartmann 

Bring back the ‘wealth of the nation’

EDITORIAL 
Inflation blame game


FRANK LINGO 
Re-considering the wolf

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

COREY FRIEDMAN
Democracy dies in news deserts

DON ROLLINS 
No little victories

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen  
Climate change: The more it changes ...

DISPATCHES 
New COVID variant leads to new Republican conspiracy theory.
House gerrymandering proceeds. 
Republicans want another Trump run, but he’s toxic to everybody else. 
Biden oil and gas reforms prioritize money over climate. 
Labor Department announces $15 minimum wage for fed contractors. 
John Buell R.I.P. 
Biden Postal Service appointees target DeJoy;
Rep. Cawthorn seems to call for violent government overthrow on Twitter, humiliates himself instead.
Contender for greatest mess in Congress seeks to becomegreatest mess in Texas.
John Kennedy went full Joe McCarthy ...


ART CULLEN 
Farmers will change if politicians let them


JILL RICHARDSON 
Sociology can help the climate crisis

JOHN YOUNG 
When culture war is all you’re about

SAMANTHA GARCIA 
To tackle climate change, hold fossil fuel conglomerates accountable

ROBERT KUTTNER
Green steel deal connects climate goals to industrial goals

DICK POLMAN 
The cult cancels Liz Cheney

TOM CONWAY
Everyone benefits from infrastructure investments

DOMENICA GHANEM 
Inflation is complicated, but making it better doesn’t have to be

SARAH ANDERSON 
Wealthy Americans get paid leave. Shouldn’t the rest? 


CHRIS SATULLO
Cult leader broke most of his promises, so why do the cultists still love him? (Take a guess.)


DR. CINTLI 
A rabbit on the face of moon

MARK ANDERSON 
CFR at 100: Still making world safer for super-rich

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
A new year plea for optimism

SAM URETSKY
Biden jobs bill shows bipartisanship still possible

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet  
It’s a grand ol’ flag

WAYNE O’LEARY 
How corporate America won reconciliation

ERIC BOEHLERT 
The media’s inflation hysteria — more theatrics? “Crisis” mania. 


NORMAN SOLOMON and JEFF COHEN
Found in television: New York Times says Democrats shouldn’t challenge oligarchy

TOM H. HASTINGS 
Vote back better


BARRY FRIEDMAN 
Executing executions, Oklahoma style


SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson  
Frontier justice, Missouri style

BOOK REVIEW/Heather Seggel  
We (still) won’t go back

ROB PATTERSON 
‘Law & Order’ family continues to fill the airwaves

SETH SANDRONSKY
Pass this

FILM REVIEW/Ed Rampell
L.A.’s biggest film festival returns live and in person with great anti-racist films

SCOTT KLINGER 
How to make the holidays happier for the Postal Service

and more ...

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