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Selections from the May 15, 2024 issue

 COVER/Lisa Song, ProPublica

The EPA has done nearly everything it can to clean up this small town. It hasn’t worked. 

EDITORIAL 
Ukraine survives GOP chaos

JIM HIGHTOWER
Where’s George Orwell Today? Texas! 
Can’t oil barons ever be honest? (Hint: No). 
What nation besides Israel is killing Gaza’s innocent Palestininans? 
Why are we letting greedheads and ideologues kill our post office? 

FRANK LINGO 
Earth Day update: Optimism and pessimism

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

DON ROLLINS 
Ohio was wrong last time: Let’s do it again!

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen 
Diversions from political mainstream

DISPATCHES
Trump eyes Social Security cuts by slashing payroll tax.
Tennessee VW workers vote to join UAW in a landslide..
Green groups call RFK Jr. ‘Dangerous conspiracy theorist and science denier.’
Biden rent-increase cap shows tenant union win.
Emergency rooms refused to treat pregnant patients after ‘Dobbs’ decision.
Green groups cheer $7 billion in “Solar for All’ grants.


ART CULLEN 
A rushed farm bill is a bad one

ALAN GUEBERT 
How to win the SAF game: Part 1


TIFFANY TAGBO
Lawmakers should spend a night in a homeless shelter

JOHN YOUNG 
For its stakes, trial eclipses the solar eclipse

DICK POLMAN 
Criminal court: day one: The grifting grievances of Don Snoreleone

JOE CONASON 
Bully Bobby Jr. is no friend of free speech

FRAN QUIGLEY 
Biden rent increase cap shows the tenant union movement can win nationally 

DAVID McCALL 
A new manufacturing frontier

SAM PIZZIGATI 
To trim our richest down to Democratic size, we need to think big


ROBERT KUTTNER 
The US-Japan Summit and the Nippon Steel Deal


SONALI KOLHATKAR  
Here’s why you can’t afford an electric car


THOM HARTMANN  
We need a Democratic revolution to overcome the rightwing media machine!

FARRAH HASSEN  
A bittersweet Arab American Heritage Month

SULMA ARIAS 
Why do my groceries cost so much? 

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas  
Conscience: When mine conflicts with yours

SAM URETSKY 
Health care should be more than bitter pills

ROBERT DODGE  
Our budget priorities should reflect the people’s agenda, not hasten nuclear oblivion

WAYNE O’LEARY
Absurdity of American immigration policy

LES LEOPOLD 
Raging against ‘White Rural Rage’

OMAR OCAMPO  
Billionaires are bad for democracy. Taxing them is good for it. 

JUAN COLE 
Netanyahu, empowered by Biden’s grant of impunity, baits Iran into his genocidal Gaza war

ELWOOD WATSON
What you might have forgotten about OJ Simpson and his trial

JAMIE STIEHM 
Trump’s luck and mojo run low

BARRY FRIEDMAN 
Performative outrage

SETH SANDRONSKY 
Living life: Reviewing Helena Sheehan’s new autobiography

RALPH NADER 
New book: Choosing regular food to extend longevity 


PEPPER TRAIL 
An invitation to play the climate-change game

ROB PATTERSON 
Where’s the music ripped from the headlines? 

SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson  
Deeply fakey

FILM REVIEW/Ed Rampell
It’s racism or solidarity for Syrian refugees and ex-miners at Northeast England in Ken Loach’s “The Old Oak”

From The Progressive Populist, May 15, 2024


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