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Selections from the April 15, 2023 issue

 COVER/Dick Polman 

America’s tragedy: A pandemic of willful ignorance

EDITORIAL
The indictable man


FRANK LINGO
Stop product testing on animals

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

DON ROLLINS 
Big league baseball: You win some ... and might lose ‘em

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMIllen 
Why would a lab in Wuhan be studying the COVID virus? 

DISPATCHES 
Former Texas governor led Reagan’s effort to sabotage Jimmy Carter’s re-election, urged Iran to keep US hostages.
Republican attacks on SNAP could take food aid from 10 million.
DeSantis threw Trump under the bus.
Repubs agree ‘hush’ payments are crimes.
Media needs to get wise with DeSantis' bad-faith press operation
Biden says top execs of failed banks should face harsh penalties ...


ART CULLEN 
Politicians want to snuff the light of information and cast you in darkness

ALAN GUEBERT
‘Right to repair’ fight between farmers and machinery giants just getting started


LINDA BENESCH
Inequality costs Social Security trillions. Here’s how we can fix it. 

JOHN YOUNG
‘Woke’ phantoms behind school walls


THOM HARTMANN
Can we stop the greed-heads from their destruction of banking & more? 

TOM CONWAY
Keep the DOL fighting for workers

ROBERT KUTTNER
There are worse things than mild inflation


KAREN DOLAN
Biden’s budget would level the playing field and reduce the deficit

ROBERT C. KOEHLER
Staying woke: Revering life


SONALI KOLHATKAR
Why student debt cancellation is reasonable, not radical


DR. CINTLI
The 1524 Dialogues Part II

GENE NICHOL
North Carolina’s supreme transgression

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Dystopian health-speak: Medical freedom

SAM URETSKY
The rule of judges

JOEL D. JOSEPH 
Silicon Valley Bank was killed by the Federal Reserve Board

WAYNE O’LEARY
The great distraction

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet  
Eco-terrorism is real and driven by corporate capitalism

PAUL ARMENTANO
In the era of legal marijuana, the kids are alright


N. GUNASEKARAN
A world free of hunger: Is it achievable? 

PETER CERTO 
20 years on, what did the Iraq war truly cost? 


BARRY FRIEDMAN 
In defense of Julian Assange

SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson 
Ron De Sanitization

JONATHAN THOMPSON 
Chronicle of an abandoned oil and gas well — one of millions

ROB PATTERSON 
‘Godfather of Harlem’ mixes fact and fiction with flair

ED RAMPELL
The best political movie since Z is runner-up for an Oscar

and more ...

From The Progressive Populist, April 15, 2023


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