Selections from the April 1, 2024 issue

 COVER/Dana Milbank

Biden gave $90 billion to Rural America. The thank you went to spam.

EDITORIAL 
Biden goes long and scores!

JIM HIGHTOWER
Is ‘Icarus’ the solution to climate change? 
What if there was a natural substitute for plastic? There is! 
How corporate lobbyists can engineer a train wreck. 
What happened to the ‘miracle of meatless meat’?  

FRANK LINGO
Solar revolution is on the way

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

DON ROLLINS 
The southern border: When suffering begets suffering

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen 
‘Show Me’ bad legislative ideas

DISPATCHES 
‘Social Security is on the ballot,’ say advocates, as Trump threatens cuts.
Trump team takes over RNC, slashes staff.
Trump’s affection for dictators is at heart of his plan for America — and Ukraine.
To regain youth support, groups say Biden must embrace ‘Finish the Job’ youth agenda.
Trump endorses Gaza genocide: ‘Finish the Problem.’ ...
Senators call for new ‘war profiteering’ panel.

ART CULLEN 
Iowa has robins in February and we can barely water the hogs

ALAN GUEBERT
The growing disconnect between hard numbers and soft policy

JOE CONASON 
Over congressional Republicans, Putin casts his dark shadow

MARTHA BURK
Backlash: Women’s History Month in a post-Roe world

JOHN YOUNG 
Tales of the embryonic highway patrol

SETH SANDRONSKY
Closing California prisons will save taxpayers money, budget watchdog agency reports

DICK POLMAN 
During the pandemic, his fraudulency got a lot of people killed. Has that slid down the memory hole?  

TOM SCHALLER and PAUL WALDMAN/ The Daily Yonder 
Lack of political competition harms rural Americans

DAVID McCALL 
Defying the South’s corporate lackeys 

JOSEPH B. ATKINS 
Workers once again try to organize the South

MARK ANDERSON 
Support for aid to Ukraine is waning 

ROBERT KUTTNER 
Civil War II

THOM HARTMANN  
The Saudi & Putin scheme for screwing Biden’s election hopes

SONALI KOLHATKAR
Countering corporate propaganda

CHRIS MILLS RODRIGO  
We need a ‘Marshall Plan’ for public media 

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas  
Welcome to the Twilight Zone: Strange rulings in family care

SAM URETSKY 
The pandemic has long-term effects on the economy

PHYLLIS BENNIS  
Gazans are starving — don’t cut aid now 

WAYNE O’LEARY
Big Pharma on the defensive

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet  
An assault on campus speech

JASON SIBERT 
Military rivals of the US in the second Cold War

JUAN COLE 
Trump, like Biden, supports Israeli campaign against Gaza: ‘You’ve got to finish the problem’

N. GUNASEKARAN  
‘The world cannot afford conflict in Asia’

JAMIE STIEHM 
The Roberts Supreme Court: Too exteme for voters

BARRY FRIEDMAN
Summer of discontent/Part 2

SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson  
Say it ain’t so, Joe

RALPH NADER
Count the real Gaza death toll

DAVE MARSTON
Glen Canyon Dam has created a world of mud

ROB PATTERSON
‘The Crown’ was a crowning TV achievement

ELWOOD WATSON 
The creep of Christian nationalism

FILM REVIEWS/Ed Rampell 
Pan African Film Festival offered new media for Black History Month

From The Progressive Populist, April 1, 2024

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