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Selections from the April 15, 2024 issue

 COVER/Topher Sanders, Dan Schwartz and Gabriel Sandoval 

What’s missing from railroad safety data? Dead workers and severed limbs. 

EDITORIAL 
Are you better off than Trump?

JIM HIGHTOWER 
Tom Paine: What a guy! Guess What? Americans want to be woke! Sen. Katie Britt plays a cruel political game to exploit a Mexican rape victim. Why are we letting financial hucksters dictate our local news?  

FRANK LINGO 
Plastic proliferating on the planet

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

DON ROLLINS 
A study in tax dodging

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen 
Who passes the dishwasher test? 

DISPATCHES 
Donation to Trump’s RNC is a donation to his lawyers before it’s a donation to is party.
Trump lawsuit against ABC, Stephanopoulos is risky.
Senate map is tough for Dems, but they can beat Ted Cruz and Rick Scott.
Budget proposal shows GOP is ‘party of cutting Social Security and Medicare.’
Trump-in-law calls for ethnic cleansing in Gaza.


ART CULLEN 
What’s the matter with me? 

ALAN GUEBERT 
Meet the ‘barons’ who corrupt your dinner table

JOE CONASON 
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s farce — and our tragedy 

SARAH ANDERSON,WILLIAM RICE and ZACHARY TASHMAN
More for them, less for us

JOHN YOUNG 
Hoax that launched a thousand lies

DICK POLMAN 
The aspiring fascist’s ‘bloodbath’ comment, in the context of the last nine years 

GENE NICHOL
Robert Francis Kennedy Sr. — glimpses of the anti-Trump

DAVID McCALL 
Building America, fighting greed 

LES LEOPOLD 
A working class susceptible to Trump needs much more from Biden


ROBERT KUTTNER
Man of steel

THOM HARTMANN  
What Americans and the media are missing about the TikTok crisis


SONALI KOLHATKAR
Trump plans to make his massive tax cuts for the rich and corporations permanent


KEN WINKES  
Physician, heal our health care 

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Our bodies, our minds: The big bubble

SAM URETSKY 
Memory can be a fleeting thing for the elderly

WAYNE O’LEARY 
Reflections on the new American pastime

JOEL D. JOSEPH  
Solomonic justice in Georgia

MATTHEW ROSING  
We can break the cycle of poverty, mental illness and prison

JUAN COLE 
UN and EU slam Israel for imposing on Palestinians ‘levels of food insecurity never recorded anywhere in the world’ 

KENT PATERSON  
Mexico poised to elect first woman president

JAMIE STIEHM
A tale of two contagions

BARRY FRIEDMAN
Outrage and lip service

SETH SANDRONSKY
Facts against industrial farming

RALPH NADER 
Israel’s right-wing wants all the Palestinian land — and this explaims its state terrorism


CLINT McKNIGHT 
Freed wolves move into their old niche

ROB PATTERSON 
My TV I Love Lucy is worsley

FILM REVIEW/Ed Rampell 
On the Christian trail: Dramatizing the story of the first Black woman presidential candidate


SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson  
The great embryo imbroglio

From The Progressive Populist, April 15, 2024


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