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Selections from the April 1, 2023 issue

 COVER/Thom Hartmann

The outrageous new way Big Pharma is trying to rip us all off

EDITORIAL
GOP’s borderline failure


FRANK LINGO
Wind farms should tread carefully

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

DON ROLLINS
Satire: Just a tool for democracy

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMIllen
Chinese balloons come and go down

DISPATCHES
Trump to his followers: I am your retribution. 
Don Jr. confirms ‘Dark Brandon’ has been living in Trump’s head.
Poll finds majority of US voters want Fed to stop raising rates before it tanks economy.
Major US oil companies raked in $290 billion in profits last year. 
‘New’ House Republican energy plan: Drill, baby, drill.
Trump has a vision for the future, and it’s ‘The Jetsons.’ 
Florida Republicans want to keep track of bloggers ...

ART CULLEN
Farm Bill could be a rare accomplishment for a divided Congress

ALAN GUEBERT
Paying the price for being sick, old, or poor in rural America


REBEKAH ENTRALGO
Rail workers warned us: Greed is dangerous

JOHN YOUNG
Biden arrives to save planet tied to tracks

ROBERT KUTTNER
A small victory over Big Pharma / How Monopoly Destroys Democracy


DICK POLMAN
The Fox rot starts at the top with Rupert Murdoch 

TOM CONWAY
Working kids to death


DOMENICA GHANEM 
The GOP wants to renegotiate women’s place in the economy


JAKE JOHNSON
Report shows big insurance profitting massively from Medicare privatization

LES LEOPOLD
Shareholder capitalism and the cruelty of mass layoffs

SONALI KOLHATKAR
Starbucks: Poster child for corporate abuse


DR. CINTLI 
The consequential debate of 1524: On what it means to be human. Part I.

GENE NICHOL
Crushing judicial independence in North Carolina

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
The government: Erasing the X in prescribing Buprenorphine

SAM URETSKY
Republicans prefer to remain fast asleep

SETH SANDRONSKY
Seeking justice: California’s sterilization compensation program

WAYNE O’LEARY
Casey Jones meets Hunter Harrison

JOEL D. JOSEPH
Blowback from stock buybacks


MEL GURTOV
The coup in Israel


BARRY FRIEDMAN 
Oklahoma’s education horror

SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson
D-I-V-O-R-C-E


DAVE MARSTON 
Colorado conflicted about cutting its water use

ROB PATTERSON 
The rich have their uses

PETER FUNT
Viewers should ask, what’s up with docs?

FILM REVIEW/Ed Rampell  
‘Ithaka’ makes a personal appeal to free Assange

From The Progressive Populist, April 1, 2023


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