Friday, June 23, 2023

Selections from the July 1-15, 2023 issue

 COVER/Thom Hartmann

How much damage has the Trump-Putin collusion inflicted on America?

EDITORIAL
GOP’s Disinfo Wars


LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

DON ROLLINS 
Cormac McCarthy: Disturbing

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Debt ceiling still needs to be dealt with

DISPATCHES
RNC sticks with loyalty pledge to accused criminal. 
Bernie Kerik pitched Trump chief of staff on ‘$5 to $8’ million plan to reverse Trump’s 2020 loss. 
Texas nullifies local rules requiring water breaks for workers as temps soar. 
Biden admin implores states to slow Medicaid cuts after more than 1 million enrollees dropped. 
Penn GOP lawmaker’s lawsuit against newspaper backfires as it exposes damning 2020 election emails. 
Major labor unions endorse Biden for 2024 ....


ART CULLEN 
The Democrats’ long wander into the weeds in Iowa

ALAN GUEBERT 
Happy bacon, unhappy blueberries, and Washington’s revolving door


KAREN DOLAN
Next time, abolish the debt ceiling

JOHN YOUNG
He should pay for defilling our property


DICK POLMAN 
Let the MAGA cultists dwell where the sun don’t shine. Politically, their sun god is going down.

TOM CONWAY 
Biden protected working people

SAM PIZZIGATI
How contractor CEOs get rich off taxpayers

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Why we must fight


ROBERT KUTTNER 
Biden, student debt, and the 2024 election

GENE NICHOL 
Tar Heel war on democracy rages

MARILYN W. THOMPSON
Voting maps throughout the Deep South may be redrawn after surprise Supreme Court ruling


SONALI KOLHATKAR
Low pay and a four-day workweek is not a great deal


DR. CINTLI 
The White House creates a blueprint to end racial violence?

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas 
Whither common sense? Four health test cases

SAM URETSKY 
Robert Kennedy Jr. is not his father

JAKE JOHNSON 
Top US companies admit to hiking prices to pad their profits: Analysis

WAYNE O’LEARY
Zombie banks and rogue bankers

DEDRICK ASANTE-MUHAMMAD
The boldest step to close the racial wealth divide in generations

FRANK LINGO 
Plastic recycling is a gigantic fraud


N. GUNASEKARAN 
Will multiple currency blocs emerge to challenge the dollar?

JOEL D. JOSEPH 
Merger of PGA and LIV Golf is an antitrust violation and a human rights disaster


BARRY FRIEDMAN 
The shelf life of outrage

SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson
The blob that ate DeSatan


GARY WOCKNER
Boondoggle on the Colorado River

ROB PATTERSON 
Dylan explores philosophy of song

SETH SANDRONSKY 
Combating COVID-19: Pandemics, power and profits

ALEX LAWSON 
Big Pharma CEOs are killing Americans for profit. Here’s how Biden can stop them

FILM REVIEW/Ed Rampell
“Americonned’ explores the gap between billionaires and ordinary people

From The Progressive Populist, July 1-15, 2023


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