Saturday, July 30, 2022

Selections from the August 15, 2022 edition of The Progressive Populist

 COVER/Andrea Suozzo

Right-wing think tank Family Research Council is now a church in eyes of the IRS

EDITORIAL
Put the Big Liar in jail


FRANK LINGO
Take emergency action on climate

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

DON ROLLINS 
Wokeness: Still a discussion worth having

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen 
No summer break from anger

DISPATCHES 
Pence’s former chief of staff appeared before federal grand jury.
Trump’s Secret Service agents who disputed Hutchinson testimony lawyer up, refuse to testify.
Dems gain, Repubs falter as months tick toward November.
Progressives win small victories at USPS.
Extremist Supreme Court majority unifies most Americans against it in one term.
Big Oil quick to boost gas prices, but slow to drop them. 
Half of US seniors can’t afford basic expenses
One Good Samaritan with a gun doesn't make a food court safe ...

ART CULLEN 
Ain’t nobody here but us caricatures


JOHN GEYMAN
Harm is done to women and girls by overturning of Roe by an uninformed, uncaring and politicized Supreme Court

JOHN YOUNG 
Agents of chaos and criminality


JOEL D. JOSEPH
Stop the fed from harming the economy


TED WILLIAMS 
The ‘Keystone Pipeline’ wouldn’t make gas any cheaper

THOM HARTMANN 
Where did the religious nuttery come from?

SONALI KOLHATKAR 
Don’t normalize Trump’s enablers

DR. CINTLI 
From here and from there

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas  
Medical debt: America’s own circle of hell

SAM URETSKY 
Republicans try to deep six democracy

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Seeking domestic bliss

WAYNE O’LEARY
Democratic denouement

DICK POLMAN 
The GOP’s nutcase candidates stoke Democratic hopes of holding onto the US Senate


N. GUNASEKARAN
Rekindling Cold War-era with bloc confrontation

BARRY FRIEDMAN 
Hoping for Trump

MITCHELL ZIMMERMAN  
How to prevent an American theocracy


JOSEPH B. ATKINS 
Weimar America

ROB PATTERSON 
Is TV’s recent golden age waning? 

SETH SANDRONSKY
Small business gears up to protect and strengthen democracy

MOVIE REVIEW/Ed Rampell  
Indigenous and Japanese American activists unite to fight the power


SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson 
Alert! Monkey Pox attacking conservatives

GENE NICHOL 
Bingham and Madison and original intent


From The Progressive Populist, August 15, 2022


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