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Selections from the December 15, 2023 issue

 COVER/Reed Abelson, New York Times and Jordan Rau, KFF Health News

Facing financial ruin as costs soar for elder care

EDITORIAL 
Steady Joe vs. Lyin’ Don


FRANK LINGO 
Mother trees: Wisdom of the forest

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

DON ROLLINS 
The modified servant model

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen 
Too many people with too few resources fuel war

DISPATCHES
Trump mocks Jimmy Carter, continues fascist rhetoric, vowing to drive out the globalists.
Trump’s decline has flown under the radar.
‘No Labels’ is all grift.
UAW clinches record deals with Big 3, turns to organizing Tesla and foreign automakers.
Federal government is funded. What’s next?
Ohio GOP plans to gut constitutional amendment protecting abortion rights ...

ART CULLEN 
Food and peace

ALAN GUEBERT
Don’t just bury the CO2 pipelines; bury their very idea


CHRISTINA JEMENEZ
I help seniors get health care. Shouldn’t I be able to afford my own? 

JOHN YOUNG 
Tongue-tied on reproductive rights

DICK POLMAN 
Trump channels Adolf, vowing to ‘root out’ the ‘vermin.’ That’s Nazi talk. Wake up, America. 

JOE CONASON
The mighty achievements of Joe Manchin

DAVID McCALL 
Jobs today, jobs tomorrow

LES LEOPOLD 
The UAW’s game changer: The right to strike over mass layoffs

BILAL BAYDOUN 
How to make America more affordable


ROBERT KUTTNER 
The next insulin scandal 

THOM HARTMANN  
Democrats can win by confronting crime


SONALI KOLHATKAR  
Seeing through the economic bait and switch


HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas  
The case of home dialysis, or when money supports inertia

SAM URETSKY 
Immovable force blocks military promotions

GENE NICHOL 
Doing the impossible: Separating politics and race in North Carolina

WAYNE O’LEARY 
A tale of two motion pictures

JOEL D. JOSEPH  
Plastic pollution is an existential threat to humans

JUAN COLE
Human-caused climate change cost U.S. $67 billion, produced hottest 12 months for 125,000 years

ROBERT C. KOEHLER 
Militarism vs. our shared humanity

FARRAH HASSEN 
Americans want a ceasefire. It’s our politicians who are out of touch. 

JAMIE STIEHM 
Washington diary watch: All’s not well

BARRY FRIEDMAN 
If Biden loses, blame my wife

SETH SANDRONSKY 
Private employers hire 113,000 new workers in October; pay growth slows

RALPH NADER 
Worries from a major auto dealer about all electric cars


ERNIE ATENCIO 
Farewell to two radicals with a common goal — changing the West

ROB PATTERSON 
A perfect song for our troubled times

SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson  
RobbieBot-1, Mike Johnson-0

ED RAMPELL  
‘Rustin’ tells the full story of the March on Washington

From The Progressive Populist, December 15, 2023


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