Saturday, July 16, 2022

Selections from the August 1, 2022 edition of The Progressive Populist

 COVER/Sonali Kolhatkar 

How corporate food monopolies caused the baby formula ‘scandal’

EDITORIAL 
Vote to stop the Court coup


LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

DON ROLLINS
Christo-politics comes to the court

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen 
Monitor right-wing media

DISPATCHES 
Moderating wage growth means the Fed won’t need to raise interest rates further to contain inflation. 
Rising minimum wages in 20 states and localities help protect workers and families against higher prices. 
Biden signs executive order to protect abortion rights.
Michigan groups submit signatures to put abortion rights on the ballot. 
Midterm generic ballot shows gains for Dems as indies move from Republicans. 
US voters want Congress to expand—not cut or privatize—Social Security. 
California will make its own insulin, creating competition in the pharmaceutical industry.
New calls to ban glyphosate after toxic herbicide found in 80% of US urine samples.
N.C. Republicans want state to destroy free EV charging sttions.

ART CULLEN 
We keep waiting for the signal

SULMA ARIAS 
To defend our rights, defend our democracy

JOHN YOUNG
What non-voters have wrought

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet  
A pattern of cruelty

MARTHA BURK 
Most Americans support abortion rights. Do your leaders?


DICK POLMAN
Catholic Ireland is more progressive than America about abortion. Think about that.


BOB BURNETT 
The new Civil War: The 50-year conservative plan


FRANK LINGO 
Supreme Court kneecaps EPA

MITCHELL ZIMMERMAN  
We have a smoking gun — indict Trump


DR. CINTLI 
Teotihuacan: City of the Gods — the city in the sky

BELLA DEVAAN 
A pastor marches for a moral economy

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas  
Misogyny redux: Guidelines for a post-Dobbs world

SAM URETSKY 
Time for everything


WAYNE O’LEARY 
The rise of autocratic capitalism


JOEL D. JOSEPH 
What the US can learn from the Israeli Supreme Court

BARRY FRIEDMAN 
Blood and ketchup

PETER CERTO 
An ugly new era of ‘states’ rights’


JAMES M. CULLEN
After 240 years in the background, matriarchy is due for a comeback, historian says.

ROB PATTERSON
Modern rock band Spoon makes music for these times & the ages

MOVIE REVIEW/Seth Sandronsky
‘Hustle’ never drags

SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson 
Coup coup ca-choo, Mrs. Robinson


GENE NICHOL
Originalist B.S.


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