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Selections from the September 15, 2023 issue

 COVER/Hal Crowther 

Apocalypse when? 

EDITORIAL 
Crime and punishment, eventually


FRANK LINGO 
Montana youths win major climate case

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

DON ROLLINS 
Corporate personhood: A tale worth the telling

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen 
Missouri joins states that discourage conscientious investors

DISPATCHES 
House ‘Freedom Caucus’ is ready to force government shutdown.
Trump only cares about Trump. Trump voters only care about Trump. Trump co-conspirators are screwed.
Trump dominates Iowa, too. Republicans don’t care their guy might be a literal criminal. 
Mississippi’s culture of cruelty shows itself again, and again post-Dobbs.
Shocking new data about Trump cult ...


ART CULLEN 
An attack on freedom in Kansas

ALAN GUEBERT 
August reports show continued loss of export markets


ROBERT C. KOEHLER 
Water is life — for the privileged

JOHN YOUNG 
No greater crime than this

GENE NICHOL 
A course correction in North Carolina? 

ED RAMPELL
All the way with RFK Jr.?  

DICK POLMAN
Trump and his Georgia racketeers goose-stepped into the lives of Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman


SAM PIZZIGATI 
The Tesla take on ‘sharing’ the wealth

JULIA CONLEY 
UAW ramps up pressure on Biden to protect workers in electric vehicle transition


ROBERT KUTTNER
Will Biden have enough chips in 2024?

THOM HARTMANN
Why billionaires fund anti-trans & anti-Black-history political movements


SONALI KOLHATKAR
The rise of private cops: How not to tackle homelessness

JESSICA CORBETT
After catastropic fire, locals fear Lahaina rebuild dominated by rich outsiders

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
When greed and cruelty collide: Amputations

SAM URETSKY
Handwriting becomes obsolete

JAKE JOHNSON
Sky-high US housing costs fuel record surge in homelessness

WAYNE O’LEARY
Stuck in neutral

LAURA CLAWSON 
DeSantis takeover has left Florida’s New College in shambles as new school year starts


WINSLOW MYERS 
Lahaina and global reality


BARRY FRIEDMAN 
Panting in Norway

SETH SANDRONSKY 
California’s coastal rental costs highest in the US

RALPH NADER 
Develop an exit strategy for the endless war in Ukraine


GREGORY MCNAMEE
Wildland firefighters need our support

ROB PATTERSON
Where’s the music to help inspire today’s much needed resistance? 

ART CULLEN
Rockin’ with the Boss

FILM REVIEW/Ed Rampell  
‘Walid’: Hot on the trail of the traffickers 


OBITUARY 
Roberto “Dr. Cintli” Rodrigues, R.I.P.

From The Progressive Populist, September 15, 2023


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