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Selections from the June 1, 2023 issue

 COVER/ProPublica

As rail profits soar, blocked crossings force kids to crawl under trains to get to school

EDITORIAL
Free the debt hostage


FRANK LINGO 
Biden’s power plants plan

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

DON ROLLINS
Biking in the car culture

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
It’s the Farm Bill season

DISPATCHES 
Doctors flee strict abortion ban in Idaho.
Choice supporters hope to put abortion on Florida ballot in 2024.
MAGA is on precipice. Young voters can push them off.
UAW holds off endorsing Biden in bid to ensure pro-worker EV transition.
Biden marks 200th mass shooting with another call for assault weapons ban ...


ART CULLEN 
Buying time for biofuels

ALAN GUEBERT
More greenhouse gas comes from rural leaders than rural America

SVANTE MYRICK 
Armed and afraid: The high price of fear

JOHN YOUNG 
GOP’s psychotic break with the future

DICK POLMAN
Republicans are drafting an ‘autopsy’ about their ‘22 election flops. Guess who they never mention? 


HANK KALET
Victory at Rutgers, but the fight continues


ROBERT KUTTNER 
Biden versus ‘Biden’

SONALI KOLHATKAR
The real reason Disney is defying DeSantis


THOM HARTMANN
America is being exhausted by the fear- and hate-mongers

DR. CINTLI 
A weekend with the US ex-president

DANIELLA PRIESHOFF 
Retire this dehumanizing language about immigrants

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas  
COVID capitalism segues into fraud

SAM URETSKY 
The more things quack

JOEL D. JOSEPH 
The Federal Reserve Board’s collateral damage

WAYNE O’LEARY
Democracy in jeopardy


JUAN COLE 
Lula is right that the UN Security Council can’t resolve major conflicts, whether Ukraine or Palestine

JASON SIBERT
Cooling Russia’s nuclear threat

SETH SANDRONSKY
Cold War 2.0: The military-industrial complex survives


BARRY FRIEDMAN 
Do do Don Ron run

GENE NICHOL 
Democracy resilient

RALPH NADER 
To tax the rich, we need ‘Scranton Joe’ of working people not ‘Delaware Joe’ of Wall Street


SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson 
All Tuckered out


ROB PATTERSON 
Daisy Jones gets it

FARRAH HASSEN 
The artist who taught me about justice

FILM REVIEW/Ed Rampell  
‘The Wind & the Reckoning’

and more ...

From The Progressive Populist, June 1, 2023


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