Selections from the December 1, 2022 issue

 COVER/Jeremy Schwartz and 

Jessica Priest, ProPublica
Churches are breaking the law by endorsing in elections, while the IRS looks the other way

EDITORIAL 
Beat the Big Lie

FRANK LINGO 
To reduce climate chaos, eat less meat

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

DON ROLLINS 
Jerry Lee Lewis: A complicated legacy?

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen 
Nutrition and diet starts on the farm

DISPATCHES 
Congress reports corporations use inflation to ‘raise prices excessively.’
House Dems propose end to Wall Street rent-gouging.
Job growth remains strong as wage growth settles, but Fed goes ahead with interest hike.
Senate report details latest privatized Medicare scandal.
So much for inflation and gas prices. House GOP agenda is revenge ...

ART CULLEN
Sundays with Ernie

ALAN GUEBERT
Don’t bet against the latest supermarket super merger

SULMA ARIAS 
Keep democracy on the ballot

JOHN YOUNG
Attack on democracy barely camouflaged

TOM CONWAY 
The infrastructure program’s chain reaction

EILEEN SEPULVEDA 
Back to school blues linger without the Child Tax Credit

SONALI KOLHATKAR  
Musk plans to profit from Twitter, not create a town square for global democracy

THOM HARTMANN  
Is most of America’s inflation due to monopolies, price-gouging & oil barons fleecing us?

DR. CINTLI 
The latest declaration of war against ethnic studies

DICK POLMAN
Republicans have demonized Nancy Pelosi for 16 years. No wonder a nut tried to take action. 

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas  
Stalling the surge in insulin prices: A Thanksgiving tale

SAM URETSKY 
Refugees keep coming

JASON SIBERT
Will the end of Putin bring the end of the world? 

WAYNE O’LEARY 
Monetizing Congress

SETH SANDRONSKY 
California refiners’ profits spur scrutiny from special legislative session

JOHN L. MICEK 
A roadmap to Republican grievance in 2022

BARRY FRIEDMAN 
We forgive the talented 

BETSY MARSTON 
Hats off to a determined woman

SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson 
To begin again

REED D. BENSON 
New Mexico court upholds public access

ROB PATTERSON 
Give ‘The Killer’ his due

FILM REVIEW/Ed Rampell  
Commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Hollywood Blacklist

GENE NICHOL 
When the Supreme Court claimed to be originalist, it lied

From The Progressive Populist, December 1, 2022

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