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Saturday, February 11, 2023

Selections from the March 1, 2023 issue

 COVER/Cassandra Jaramillo,Lauren McGaughy and Allie Morris

Promoters of election lies also hyped a hospital for Ukraine. That never happened either. 

EDITORIAL
DeSantis in denial


FRANK LINGO
Let’s be more like bonobos

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

DON ROLLINS 
Let’s not be the party of rote

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMIllen 
Reduce the birth rate to control climate change

DISPATCHES 
Red state Republicans push voucher-style ‘school choice’ assistance. 
Job growth soars in January, as unemployment rate hits new half-century low.
Job growth in 2022 reflects strong but unevent economic recovery.
Unionization increased by 200,000 in 2022.
Florida female student athletes ask why they should report menstrual cycles.
Seething Rick Scott vows not to ‘back down’ after McConnell ejects him from key panel.
Calls for windfall tax grow as ExxonMobil smashes Big Oil profit record with $56 billion haul.
Court: Wife beating was legal when the Constitution was written, so wife beaters can own guns ....

ART CULLEN 
Rural diner menu choices are limited

ALAN GUEBERT 
US may have the muscle in a trade fight, Mexico may have the law


TRACEY L. ROGERS 
Teach Black history — don’t ban it

JOHN YOUNG 
‘Equity’ is not a four-letter word

SAM PIZZIGATI 
The clearest case for taxing billionaires yet


KENNY STANCIL 
‘Drought profiteers’ under fire as Wall Street targets Colorado River water


DEAN BAKER 
Biden gets a solid ‘A’ at his midterm

THOM HARTMANN
A media ceiling is about to fall in on Democrats


DR. CINTLI 
Guns, hate & roses

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas  
Guns: Geico, Amica, Aetna to the rescue

SAM URETSKY 
The health care system is failing its providers, too

PAMELA M. COVINGTON  
Don’t let politicians cut housing aid

GENE NICHOL 
A Democratic duty

N. GUNASEKARAN 
Pakistan: ‘At the end of the road.’

JASON SIBERT
South Korea looks at getting its own nukes


LAWRENCE S. WITTNER 
The Ukraine war and international law


BARRY FRIEDMAN 
What if Hitler did meet the press

SETH SANDRONSKY
The criminalization of Emily


TIM LYDON
The housing crisis is harming my town

ROB PATTERSON 
Who tells a favorite performer it’s time to go? 

SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson
Wherefore art thou, Pinocchio

FILM REVIEW/Ed Rampell  
Would Florida’s fascistic governor ban this play and burn the script? 

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From The Progressive Populist, March 1, 2023


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