Saturday, March 12, 2022

Selections from the April 1, 2022 issue

COVER/Andy Lee Roth
and Mickey Huff
The global seafood supply is being contaminated by microplastics, but no major news outlet has paid any attention

EDITORIAL
Putin is cornered


FRANK LINGO
The Earth loses all wars

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

MITCHELL ZIMMERMAN
GOP hostility to Ketanji Brown Jackson goes beyond hypocrisy

DON ROLLINS
Sometimes even the pushers have to pay

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen 
Can we talk about survival of the planet?

DISPATCHES
Report details ‘unraveling’ of Manhattan DA’s Trump probe that led 2 prosecutors to resign.
Trump led criminal conspiracy, Jan. 6 probe’s lawyers say in court.
State of the Union provides Biden bounce.
Jobs report continues picture of fast and sustained growth. 
Mark Meadows: Living in a mobile home or vote fraudster? 
Republicans are still coming for your health care, Ron Johnson says. 
Senate Republicans would hike taxes on the poorest 40%.
UN sets sights on plastic pollution, vowing to adopt agreement by 2024.
Russian invasion threatens Ukraine nuclear power plants ...


ART CULLEN
Finkenauer brings her blue-collar background to race against Grassley

ALAN GUEBERT
Global food chains face more uncertainty, more instability

SARAH ANDERSON
Biden’s economic plans are solid, but we need action

JOHN YOUNG 
A plunderer needs a pretext

DICK POLMAN 
Is the State of the Union strong enough to extract more domestic sacrifice?


JOEL D. JOSEPH 
Vladimir Putin is a war criminal like Hitler


PHYLLIS BENNIS
The best way to help Ukraine is diplomacy, not war

RICHARD D. WOLFF 
The American political process is disconnected from economic reality


BONNY GARDNER
How Donald Trump conned his blue-collar base


DR. CINTLI
Multiple crises bring out the best and worst in us

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas  
The poor: Attention must be paid

SAM URETSKY 
AIDS is back

KIMBERLY SHAPPLEY
I’m a Christian mom and I love my trans daughter

WAYNE O’LEARY
Dollars and sense

ERIC BOEHLERT 
Will GOP’s Putin bromance hurt them in November? Press couldn’t care less

JASON SIBERT
Russia’s invansion of Ukraine didn’t have to happen


DAVID J. SCHMIDT 
Do we actually care about the victims of war? The selective nature of ‘solidarity with Ukraine’


BARRY FRIEDMAN 
Anhedonia, or things I used to like

BOB BURNETT 
Ten questions about Urkaine

SETH SANDRONSKY 
California cautiously charts recovery from COVID-19 pandemic

FILM REVIEW/Ed Rampell  
Undergrads of the world, unite!


SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson
Russia on the rampage: Time to hide under our desks again


GENE NICHOL
The Ukraine rising

and more ...

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