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Selections from the August 15, 2023 issue

 COVER/Nicole Carr and Lucas Waldron, ProPublica

How school board meetings became flashpoints for anger and chaos across the country

EDITORIAL 
Trump enablers get desperate


FRANK LINGO p. 3
Blood batteries power our phones

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4

DON ROLLINS p. 4
Is Black activism in shift? 

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
This summer, don’t spread your carbon

DISPATCHES p. 5
No wonder Republicans believe in conspiracy theories.
If anyone benefits from Trump’s indictments, it’s Biden.
Dems’ growing dominance in college towns upends Republicans’ path to victory.
GOP spending cuts would kill 500,000 jobs, slam brakes on economy.
DeSantis attacks on Florida’s New College hit home as faculty flee.
Dems keep ahead of Trump’s pace with judicial nominees ...


ART CULLEN p. 6
Get me some more duct tape

ALAN GUEBERT p. 6
Climate change delay is climate change denial


DEB SITARSKY p. 7
What decades of social work taught me about poverty

JOHN YOUNG p. 7
My eye test for college admissions and hiring

GENE NICHOL p. 8
The Trumpian question for UNC administrators


DICK POLMAN p. 9
His fraudulency will soon be charged with new felonies. Some of his coup toadies already have.

MITCHELL ZIMMERMAN p. 9
The Supreme Court’s gone rogue and Americans are suffering for it

TOM CONWAY p. 10
Suriving record heat

BELLA DEVAAN p. 10
Young people can’t sit on the sidelines on Social Security

DANIELLE BROWNE p. 10
Cultivating the next crop of America’s farmers


ROBERT KUTTNER p. 11
Radical problems and liberal solutions ­­­

PAUL ARMENTANO p. 11
Cannabis laws are changing. Drug testing must change too 


THOM HARTMANN p. 13
Are GOP governors killing their citizens to protect billionaires? 

DR. CINTLI p. 14
There is no such thing as humane bombs

SETH SANDRONSKY p. 14
Cal State University employees rally for better pay and benefits

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
A new colonialism, a new raw material: Nurses

SAM URETSKY p. 15
AI can help make drugs better

WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Stealth revolution in health care

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 16
The nuclear debate

JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 16
Reopen the port of Odesa


N. GUNASEKARAN p. 17
The ill-effects of NATO’s eastward movement


BARRY FRIEDMAN p. 18
Trump’s luck

SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 18
Cage match, Libertarian style

RALPH NADER p. 19
Suggestions for progressives to become stronger


MARJORIE “SLIM” WOODRUFF p. 20
Too many tourists follow a leader

ROB PATTERSON p. 20
I’m bullish as hell on ‘The Bear’

ELWOOD WATSON p. 20
Republicans had a pretty racist week

FILM REVIEW/Ed Rampell p. 21
‘Oppenheimer’ doesn’t fully depict atomic bomb’s consequences

and more ...

From The Progressive Populist, August 15, 2023


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