Selections from the March 1, 2024 issue

 COVER/Hal Crowther 

An incurable disease? The mystery of MAGA

EDITORIAL 
Biden floats in the flooded zone

JIM HIGHTOWER
The Right Wing’s program to solve childhood obesity. 
The Supreme Court’s six corporate sumpremacists ridge again.
Justwhat we need — another border wall! 
The shameful greed of the Solano County gold rush. 
Rebranding CAFOs as PFOs is corporate BS. 
Why you were not invited to Davos.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

DON ROLLINS 
Student absenteeism: Fixes and frustrations

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
The race doesn’t always go to the Swifties (but that’s the way to bet)

DISPATCHES 
RFK Jr.’s apology over Super Bowl ad doesn’t pass sincerity test.
Trump echoes Hitler final solution rhetoric.
Poll: most Republicans are fine with Trump getting away with anything.
Trump attacks another military family. That’s who he is.
Changes in child tax credit would have outsized impact on rural children 

ART CULLEN 
Calm yourself: What would Mel Brooks do?

ALAN GUEBERT 
America’s love/hate relationship with one of our biggest trading partners

CANDACE BAKER 
Lawmakers must fully fund the WIC program

JOHN YOUNG
Swifties are the least of GOP’s problems

JAKE JOHNSON
‘Hell no’: Trump allies’ plan to privatize Medicare draws alarm and outrage

DICK POLMAN 
It’s unanimous! ‘Citizen Trump’ is just like ‘any other criminal defendent’ facing federal prosecution.

JOE CONASON 
What Taylor Swift is teaching us now

DAVID McCALL 
Fighting for time to heal

SVANTE MYRICK 
This Black History month, fight for the freedom to learn

SAFIYA SIMMONS, LAURA
COLLINS & SUZETTE GARDNER 
Changing the culture around paid leave starts at school

FRANK LINGO 
Exciting ecological innovations

THOM HARTMANN 
Do the rich dudes want the court to ban Trump or not?

SONALI KOLHATKAR 
The real reason your grocery bill is still so high

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet 
Criminalizing the homeless again

BOOK REVIEW/Ken Winkes 
Hard work over the decades

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas 
What would Kant do? A brake on renegade individualism

SAM URETSKY
Pets keep us young

KATIE KLINGSPORN 
Where have all the doctors gone?

WAYNE O’LEARY 
The corporatization of American health care

ROBERT C. KOEHLER 
Diversity in the crosshairs

GENE NICHOL 
Violating academic freedom, again

JUAN COLE 
Top 3 things Biden could do instead of intensively bombing Iraq and Syria

JOEL D. JOSEPH 
US should recognize a Palestinian state

JASON SIBERT 
No turning back on Iran’s nukes

JAMIE STIEHM 
The woman driving Trump mad

BARRY FRIEDMAN 
Trump’s inner voice

SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson 
Pieces of Ron

RALPH NADER 
Provoking Trump to defeat himself Jujitsu style

LAURA PRITCHETT 
They struggle to come to America: One woman’s story

ROB PATTERSON 
Support the workers in the entertainment industry that helps us get by

SETH SANDRONSKY 
Langston Hughes and language of human liberation

FILM REVIEW/Ed Rampell
A filmic feast for the eyes: The gastronomy of L’Amour

From The Progressive Populist, March 1, 2024

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