Selections from the February 1, 2024 issue

 COVER/Angela Kocherga p. 1

Texas State Police rammed family vehicle, pointed guns in mistaken ‘Operation Lone Star’ border stop, El Paso Latinos say

EDITORIAL p. 2
The year to fight fascism

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Why air travel is so expensive and unpleasant. 
Why is my doctor unionizing? 
Want environmental progress? Follow the kids. 
The rattiest right-wing Congress critter. 
A new road to farm, food and climate progress. 
My New Year’s resolutions for some powerful people.  

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4

DON ROLLINS p. 4
More than a staging area

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Will truth survive in 2024? 

DISPATCHES p. 5
Our 30th year (with an asterisk)
House Chaos Caucus outraged government might not shut down after all. 
Trump got $7.8M+ from foreign governments while he was in the White House.
Job growth expands in December
Trump’s fake cure for COVID responsible for nearly 17,000 deaths.
$8.5T untaxed assets show why we need a billionaire tax.

ART CULLEN p. 6
A prayer to Toribio

ALAN GUEBERT p. 6
Doubling down on death, taxes, and crop insurance

KAREN DOLAN p. 7
Celebrating the resilience of low-income women

JOHN YOUNG p. 7
Only one poll mattered in 2023

ERIK RICHARDSON p. 8
With pandemic funding expired, child care providers seek solutions to shortages and sticker shock

DICK POLMAN p. 9
Happy New Year! Three big reasons why we can plausibly hope for a sunny ‘24 election. 

JOE CONASON p. 9
How the Trumps indict themselves

DAVID McCALL p. 10
Putting money in workers’ pockets

LES LEOPOLD p. 10
It’s 2024. Where’s the party of the working class? 

ROBERT KUTTNER p. 11
A guide to the latest efforts to undermine trust in Social Security

FRANK LINGO p. 11
2023 review and 2024 outlook for Earth 

THOM HARTMANN p. 12
Why don’t Americans know who’s manipulating our political system and why? 

SARAH ANDERSON p. 13
10 working-class victories to celebrate in 2023

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
A valentine to immigrants

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 15
The real rot in higher ed

JAKE JOHNSON p. 15
Infections and falls more likely at private equity-owned hospitals: study

WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
The looming Vietnam apology

JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 16
Sandra Day O’Connor was irreplacable

JUAN COLE p. 17
Extreme right Israeli government brands ‘illegal’ Supreme Court’s upholding of judicial review; divisions loom amid Gaza War

SHAILLY GUPTA BARNES p. 17
As we look to 2024, here’s what hope looks like

JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
Five angry men on the Supreme Court

BARRY FRIEDMAN p. 18
We are all in the next building

SETH SANDRONSKY p. 18
A world away? 

RALPH NADER p. 19
Biden, Pope Francis, and the matter of faith

HEATHER HANSMAN p. 20
Ski bum culture hits reality

ROB PATTERSON p. 20
It was 60 years ago when the Beatles began to play in the USA

SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 20
Elon’s final solution 

ED RAMPELL p. 21
Four films screened at American Film Institute Fest: ‘Memory,’ ‘Menus-Plaisir,’ ‘lo Capitano,’ and ‘Albert Brooks: Defending My Life.’ 

DOUGLAS BURNS p. 21
What Tom Harkin would do if he were running for office in 2024

From The Progressive Populist, February 1, 2024

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