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Selections from the May 15, 2023 issue

 COVER/ProPublica 

How Cigna saves millions by having its doctors reject claims without reading them

EDITORIAL
Fox ‘News’ will defame again


FRANK LINGO 
Emperor of the Earth

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

DON ROLLINS 
When politicians do the hiring

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen 
College isn’t for everybody, but it works for a lot

DISPATCHES 
Fox can claim tax writeoff for Dominion settlement. 
Republicans move to block ballot initiatives on abortion rights. 
Supreme Court allows states and cities to sue oil companies in state courts for climate damages. 
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he’ll challenge Biden’s re-election. 
Montana Republicans tried to silence trans rep. They failed. 
Republicans target Medicaid after failing to kill Obamacare. 
Biden and voters agree: Raise the debt ceiling ...


ART CULLEN
Cool the China rhetoric

ALAN GUEBERT 
Coming up: Another round of the shameless, senseless SNAP fights


KAREN DOLAN 
A parents bill of rights for the rest of us

JOHN YOUNG 
‘One dumb person’ doctrine at work


DICK POLMAN 
What’s three quarters of a billion bucks anyway? For Fox News, it’s just the cost of doing business

SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson 
It’s all over now, baby blue

TOM CONWAY
Helping veterans navigate the homefront

LINDSAY KOSHGARIAN 
Breaking down your tax bill

KALI DAUGHERTY 
Don’t shed the safety net — expand it


ROBERT KUTTNER 
Will the Fed wreck an improving economy?

SETH SANDRONSKY 
Double trouble: Water and workers in California’s Imperial County

THOM HARTMANN
What’s behind GOP’s war against democracy? 


SONALI KOLHATKAR  
What I learned from Kevin Alexander Gray


DR. CINTLI 
Running and dancing: Traditions of endurance

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
A variation on the healthcare game of ‘gotcha’: The facility fee

SAM URETSKY 
Getting old is serious business

NIJMIE DZURINKO 
Medicaid cutoffs: An American horror story

WAYNE O’LEARY 
Joe Biden’s French lesson

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet  
Higher Ed organizing is part of the fight to transform work


JOEL D. JOSEPH 
Biden’s Blarney: What Joe Biden did not say to the Irish Parliament 

MARK ANDERSON 
Indies gather to proclaim ‘Both sides do it’  


BARRY FRIEDMAN 
What if Democrats were Republicans? 

MITCHELL ZIMMERMAN  
Trump’s Al Capone moment


DAVE MARSTON 
A Colorado reservoir gets ready for an epic snowmelt

ROB PATTERSON 
Documentaries trace three Black lives that mattered

ChRISTOPHER HARRIS 
Support librarians by rejecting book bans.


ED RAMPELL 
‘More Completely Blacklisted’: Remembering John Howard Lawson

and more ...

From The Progressive Populist, May 15, 2023


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