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Selections from the September 1, 2023 issue

 COVER/Richard D. Wolff 

Why capitalism is leaving the US in search of more profit

EDITORIAL 
Demagogue’s demise


FRANK LINGO 
It’s not the humidity — it’s the heat

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

DON ROLLINS 
When you have no boots to strap

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Hot enough for you? Just wait!

DISPATCHES
TPP opens new customer service office.
Two-thirds of Americans think Jan. 6 charges are serious, but less than half think Trump should drop out.
DeSantis says he would start ‘slitting throats on Day One’ if elected president.
Biden administration delays plans to restock nation’s oil reserves.
July jobs report: Good news keeps on coming.
Pro-Trump megadonor boosts RFK Jr. campaign.
GOP's 'fiscal vandalism and political sabotage' prompts second-ever US credit downgrade.
GOP wages war on food aid, data shows 35% rise in hunger ...

ART CULLEN 
Senator, are you there? We’re good. No problems. Just vote ‘aye’

ALAN GUEBERT
Russian roulette — with missiles, drones and food

KASSIDY JACOBS
Another chance to reduce child poverty

JOHN YOUNG
Better a bad dog than a mad dog

MEL GURTOV
China’s faltering economy and its implications

GENE NICHOL
The thin reed of hope in North Carolina

DICK POLMAN
‘Dishonesty, fraud and deceit’: Trump indictment reads like ‘fascism for dummies’


TOM CONWAY
Leaping onto the infrastructure bandwagon

LEW KINGSBURY
George H.W. Bush’s 9/11 legacy must be remembered

ROBERT KUTTNER
Banks: The weak spot in a strong recovery

SETH SANDRONSKY
California academic workers are rising up

SONALI KOLHATKAR
Five critical lessons from UPS’s union workers


THOM HARTMANN
The biggest issue for 2024: Can humanity survive Trump & the GOP? 

ROBERT C. KOEHLER
Immigration policy wrapped in razor wire, Robert Frost

FATIMA GUTIERREZ
Anxious about the climate? There’s a solution

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Junk insurance: One more legacy from President Trump

SAM URETSKY
Big conclusions drawn from small study

WAYNE O’LEARY
Ennui on the hustings

DRAMA REVIEW/Ed Rampell  
Judgment at Sheffield in ‘One Moment of Freedom’ 


JASON SIBERT 
Getting up to speed on hypersonic weapons

JYOTSNA NAIDU 
Democracy needs healthy debates about war and peace


BARRY FRIEDMAN 
Small town spin

SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson 
Something there is that loves a border

STEPHEN TRIMBLE 
The problem that just won’t go away

ROB PATTERSON 
‘Oppenheimer’ reminds how brilliant and compelling high-art cinema can be

ELWOOD WATSON
Visit Florida to learn about the benefits of slavery

MOVIE REVIEW/Laura Clawson
It’s ‘Barbie,’ but the right-wing freakout is very much about Ken
and more ...

From The Progressive Populist, September 1, 2023


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