Selections from the January 1-15, 2024 issue

 COVER/Hal Crowther p. 1

How close were you? The lone gunman approaches

EDITORIAL p. 2
Trump the fascist Joker

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Corporate giants say you don’t mind their price gouging. Do you? 
Woody Guthrie’s anthem mocking right-wing republicanism. 
Here’s a wild idea that’s taking root. 
Voters reject the illiberal bigotry of Moms 4 Liberty. 
Why ‘Supreme Court Ethics’ is an oxymoron. 
When and where was the first Thanksgiving feast. 

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4

DON ROLLINS p. 4
Prison for the holidays

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Boomer pols: Be more like the Carters

DISPATCHES p. 5
More jobs drop unemployment rate further.
Study shows corporate profiteering ‘amplified’ global inflation.
It’s high time, as 6 Democratic governors urge DEA to reschedule marijuana by year-end.
Rural jobs grew in September, but still lag.
Senate Republicans hand Putin victory.
Chattanooga VW workers announce push to join UAW.

ART CULLEN p. 6
Woke made Sen. Ernst choke

ALAN GUEBERT p. 6
Soybeans’ big players looking to a bruising year ahead

SONALI KOLHATKAR p. 7
The high cost of low holiday prices

JOHN YOUNG p. 7
How extortion machine fueled the Big Lie

KAZMYN RAMOS p. 8
The importance of home

DICK POLMAN p. 9
Trump’s tenure “did not bestow on him the divine right of kings to evade the crimial accountability that governs his fellow citizens.” 

JOE CONASON p. 9
What the numbers now tell about Biden’s economy

DAVID McCALL p. 10
Workers need a fighting chance

LES LEOPOLD p. 10
Wall Street or the working class: The Democrats must choose

ROBERT KUTTNER p. 11
Charlie Peters and the odyssey of neoliberalism

MARC G. RATCLIFF p. 11
The poignant path to despotism

THOM HARTMANN p. 12
If Democrats ran red states fewer people would die

SARAH ANDERSON p. 13
Scraping away the anti-worker, anti-racial equity vestiges of the Reagan era

JOSEPH B. ATKINS p. 14
Keeping the line to heaven

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Dangerous ideas need stiffling

SAM URETSKY p. 15
Congress finally agrees on George Santos

FRANK LINGO p. 15
Climate conference offers little hope

WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Refugee roulette in Israel

JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 16
Henry Kissinger made the biggest mistakes in U.S. history

JAN SCHAKOWSKY p. 16
Hey House GOP, keep hands off Social Security and Medicare!

JUAN COLE p. 17
Palestinian-Israeli leader Mansour Abbas calls for nonviolent struggle; says Hamas’s Oct. 7 atrocity blasphemed against Islamic values

JASON SIBERT p. 17
Second Cold War will have no winners, except arms makers

JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
Haley best to vie vs. Trump — and Biden

BARRY FRIEDMAN p. 18
If Biden were Trump

LINDSAY KOSHGARIAN p. 18
The Pentagon just can’t pass an audit

RALPH NADER p. 19
Israeli government’s mass terrorism fortified by Biden and Congress

SAVANNAH ROSE p. 20
Outrage in Wyoming erupts over public land auction

ROB PATTERSON p. 20
Finally sold on reading Ebooks

MOVIE REVIEW/Ed Rampell p. 21
Polynesian happiness on the soccer field of dreams

AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Carbon colonialism, COP28 and the climate crisis

GENE NICHOL
The expanded NC Republican sedition caucu

From The Progressive Populist, January 1-15, 2024

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