Friday, November 25, 2022

Selections from the December 15, 2022 issue

 COVER/Robert Kuttner 

The rural turnaround

EDITORIAL
Testing democracy


FRANK LINGO
COP27: Get real on climate chaos

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

MEL GURTOV
Post-election caution

DON ROLLINS
Poverty and the holidays

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen 
Would you like chips with that? 

DISPATCHES
Special counsel named to lead Trump criinal probes, Trump says he won’t “partake.”
It took House GOP just one day to show why Dems need to bomb-proof everything while they can.
Austin labor council urges end to Medicare privatization.
GOP civil war in House and Senate escalates as factions splinter.
Ballot initiatives targeting inequality won big on election day ...


ART CULLEN 
Iowa goes its own direction

ALAN GUEBERT
And the numbers prove it


SARAH ANDERSON
This year, voters made an end un around out of touch politicians

JOHN YOUNG
‘Real freedom won tonight’

DICK POLMAN
Swing state voters fumigated the MAGA pests who were gnawing the Democratic woodwork


MITCHELL ZIMMERMAN
GOP won’t dump Trumpism anytime soon

TOM CONWAY
Watching workers’ backs on trade

SHAILLY GUPTA BARNES  
How low-income voters shaped the midterm elections

GENE NICHOL
An answered call


DEAN BAKER
The crushing health care cost burden that never came

THOM HARTMANN
Have Zoomers ushered in the fourth turning?


SONALI KOLHATKAR
Democrats didn’t win — they simply held the line


DR. CINTLI 
The face of the two Americas

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas  
The saga of the revolving door, the steep staircase, the narrow doorway ...

SAM URETSKY
Fountain pens: To put a fine point on shrinking checks

JOHN L. MICEK
Pennsylvania voters rejected MAGA extremism

WAYNE O’LEARY
The economics of immigration


N. GUNASEKARAN
The assertion of global south in geopolitics


BARRY FRIEDMAN
My father and Sarah Palin 

SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson 
The lost elan of Elon Musk


REBECCA LAWTON
It’s never too late to save a river

ROB PATTERSON
Picking and grinning at 2022’s end

SETH SANDRONSKY
California academic workers strike University of California Campuses

FILM REVIEW/Ed Rampell  
Piece de Resistance: New opera opposes white supremacy

From The Progressive Populist, December 15, 2022


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