Saturday, June 18, 2022

Selections from the July 1-15, 2022 Progressive Populist

 COVER/Thom Hartmann 

When Reagan’s racism saved lives: Armed Black men meant immediate gun control

EDITORIAL 
Gun safety compromise

FRANK LINGO
Let’s finally go solar

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

DON ROLLINS
Rosemary Radford Reuther: Ecofeminist who stayed put

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen 
Concentrated animals on land and sea

DISPATCHES 
Republicans close ranks against accountabiity.
Republicans wield inflation fears to distract from Jan. 6 guilt. 
Bipartisan gun deal is a good start, like tying your shoes. 
Sanders, Warren target rich to expand Social Security. 
Mass shootings ‘something we have to live with,’ 44% of Republicans say.
Jan. 6 hearing reached more than 20 million.
South Dakotans crush GOP effort to sabotage Medicaid expansion.

ART CULLEN 
The light will come back on

ALAN GUEBERT
New signs of apocalypse: War, famine and Davos Man

SARAH ANDERSON 
Low-wage American taxpayers spent billions inflating CEO pay through stock buybacks

JOHN YOUNG 
Big lie hearings will make memories

HAL CROWTHER 
Slaughterhouse America

PERLA TREVIZO and JEREMY SCHWARZ
Settlement over troubled private border wall won’t stop flooding or erosion of Rio Grande shoreline, experts say

DICK POLMAN 
Will Jan. 6 hearings sway minds and help save democracy?

AARON RUPAR 
Trump’s direct involvement in a coup plotting session and other big takeaways from the first Jan. 6 hearing


RICHARD D. WOLFF
There are better ways for societies to address inflation than by hiking interest rates


SONALI KOLHATKAR 
Our country is trading children’s lives for guns


DR. CINTLI 
Gun culture as part of a political and religious crusade

SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson 
A Monkey Pox on the house of Abbott

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas  
A nation of the mentally ill

SAM URETSKY
Abortion has a long history


WAYNE O’LEARY
American oligarchs

JASON SIBERT 
US foreign and trade policy must reflect reality


BOB BURNETT 
Everything is broken: 5 interventions

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Which side are you on?


BARRY FRIEDMAN 
A name by any other name

GENE NICHOL
The toughest work


BOOK REVIEW/Ken Winkes  
The Farmer’s Lawyer goes to the head of the class action

ROB PATTERSON 
How can you refuse ‘the offer’?

FILM REVIEW/Seth Sandronsky 
Fire Island

BOOK REVIEW/Ed Rampell  
From Puritans to Trump, Harvey Wasserman analyzes the spiral of the far right in his new book

MITCHELL ZIMMERMAN
America needs to see the reality of assault rifle murders

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