Selections from the November 15, 2023 issue

 COVER/Uriel J. Garcia 

Immigrating to the U.S. requires navigating a system both parties say is broken. Here’s why it’s so difficult. 

EDITORIAL
The Devil goes down in Georgia

FRANK LINGO 
World’s top influencer wants climate action

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

DON ROLLINS
He gets us: Slick meets Sleaze

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen 
Truth in war remains hard to ascertain

DISPATCHES 
Trump classified documents case has turned into espionage case.
UAW expands strike against Stellantis.
Amid House speaker chaos, GOP confesses attack on Social Security, Medicare still top priority.
Turncoat Dem gave N.C. GOP supermajority in April, just got her reward.
House Republicans destroy party brand ...

ART CULLEN 
Crazy talk

ALAN GUEBERT 
Getting to ‘ves’ and other Farm Bill worries

AMY ADAMS 
Try this in a small town

JOHN YOUNG 
Eye for eye, extremism for extremism

DICK POLMAN
Trump is hereby gagged. Lots of his lies are OK (free speech), but he can’t trash talk his criminal trial. 

JOE CONASON 
The MAGA culture of menace is no surprise

GENE NICHOL 
Trump and litmus tests

DAVID McCALL
Putting an end to divide and conquer

LES LEOPOLD 
UAW wins fight for just transition

ROBERT KUTTNER 
Global capitalists or national champions? 

SONALI KOLHATKAR  
How California’s fast-food workers won $20 an hour

THOM HARTMANN  
How will America weather the historic times we face? 

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet 
Nurses fight the power

SARAH ANDERSON 
Let’s trash junk fees

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas  
The “Am I Dying” test, plus a few others for free-market enthusiasts

SAM URETSKY 
Trouble at the neighborhood pharmacy

SETH SANDRONSKY 
In California, a tale of two pharma bills

WAYNE O’LEARY 
The centrist-corporative nexus in action

JULIE APPLEBY 
Medicare enrollees can switch coverage now. Here’s what’s new and what to consider. 

JUAN COLE p. 
Israel’s revenge genocide in Gaza is only the latest in a long history of such massacres

TOM H. HASTINGS 
First one to commit to nonviolence wins

BARRY FRIEDMAN 
A jury of my peers (part two)

JOEL D. JOSEPH 
Inequality and lotteries

RALPH NADER 
After the attack, Israeli rulers launch genocidal destruction

TED WILLIAMS 
Are beavers always the answer? Not really

ROB PATTERSON
Hail, hail Chuck Berry!

PHYLLIS BENNIS 
We need an immediate ceasefire in Gaza 

ED RAMPELL  
‘The American Buffalo’: An interview with Ken Burns

SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson 
Kevin’s new job

From The Progressive Populist, November 15, 2023

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