Selections from the May 1, 2024 issue

 COVER/Hal Crowther 

Tar Heel trauma: Strange times, stranger candidates

EDITORIAL 
Throttle Bibi to beat Trump

JIM HIGHTOWER 
Why big corporations get special tax breaks and you don’t. 
How many dead firefighters does it take to ban asbestos? 
Should we be polite as the GOP stomps on our democratic rights? 
How oily is Big Oil’s latest PR campaign?

FRANK LINGO 
State of the planet 2024

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

DON ROLLINS 
Oxymorons and why the Dems need ‘em after all

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen 
CAFOs slim down, but that’s not good news is rural areas

DISPATCHES 
US is still at ‘full employment,’ ‘crisis at border’ appears to have little impact on natives.
Immigrants are pretty law-abiding people.
Supermajority of Mercedes-Benz workers in Alabama file for UAW vote.
Economy has done better under Democrats for 75 years, report finds.
RFK Jr. official admits goal is to elect Trump.
Campaigners cheer FCC plan to restore net neutrality rules.
New Biden plan for student debt relief ...

ART CULLEN 
Back from the spiritual desert

ALAN GUEBERT 
Another $1 billion to refinance status quo won’t stop ag pandemics

ASHLEY DINES 
Rents are unaffordable nationwide. A renter’s tax credit would help.

JOHN YOUNG 
If Donald Trump is a Christian

JAMES EGGERT 
We are all socialists (and capitalists too)

DICK POLMAN 
If you or I depicted the president kidnapped and hog-tied...

LES LEOPOLD 
Can you slam Wall Street and still win an election? Ask Sherrod Brown

DAVID McCALL 
A new shipbuilding era

SAM PIZZIGATI 
Meet the secretive rich funding efforts to keep others poor

ROBERT KUTTNER 
How Republicans screw workers

BRIAN CARSS 
Making ends meet is hard enought without a penalty for coming up short

SONALI KOLHATKAR 
Corporate profiteering destroyed the Baltimore bridge

THOM HARTMANN 
The early days of Fox: Losing money to gain political power

HANK KALET 
Ill-defining antisemitism: IHRA definition will chill speech and academic freedom

MARIAH MONTGOMERY 
‘Gaslighting and greed’: How Uber overcharges riders and underpays drivers

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas 
Opill: A victory for women (and their male partners)

SAM URETSKY 
Be very afraid of Republican ‘reforms’

PAUL ARMENTANO 
State-level marijuana legalization has been a stunning success

WAYNE O’LEARY 
Democrats bite the bullet

JOEL D. JOSEPH 
The end of recessions in the United States?

GENE NICHOL 
The arrogance of unaccountable power

JUAN COLE 
Chef José Andrés’ World Central Kitchen accuses Israel of “targeted attack” on 7 of its aid workers

JASON SIBERT 
Détente again

JAMIE STIEHM 
A key to Baltimore’s broken heart

BARRY FRIEDMAN
Leaving home

SETH SANDRONSKY 
Walk this way: Reviewing Anne Braden’s letters, speeches and writings

RALPH NADER 
Is the same old Democratic Party ready to correct course? In time?

STEPHEN TRIMBLE 
Culture wars and an embattled Utah monument

ROB PATTERSON 
Bradley Cooper’s Bernstein

SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson 
Golden boy

FILM REVIEW/Ed Rampell
New left ex-fugitive lived underground after prison shootout

From The Progressive Populist, May 1, 2024

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