Selections from the June 1, 2024 issue

 COVER/Liz Carey, The Daily Yonder 

Privatized Medicare is putting financial strain on rural hospitals

EDITORIAL
Gaza gang: Don’t help Trump

JIM HIGHTOWER 
Hey Democrats: Find the party’s future in its Populist past. 
What should politics do? Ask Woody Guthrie. 
The Big Apple’s mayor takes a big bite out of democracy. 
The true story about Coca-Cola’s plastic fairy tale. 

FRANK LINGO 
UN plastic conference bows to lobby

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

DON ROLLINS 
The coal baron who would be a Democrat

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen 
Abortion rights: Men must make a choice

DISPATCHES
Medicare, Social Security funds doing better, but must be protected.
US billionaires pay lower tax rate than working class for first time.
Economy matches late 1960s low unemployment streak.
Poll finds rise of fascism and extremism in voters’ top concern.
Voters sharply divided by media they consume.
Biden campaign targets Latino men on abortion.

ART CULLEN 
Iowa law: If you’re Brown, get out of town

ALAN GUEBERT 
How to win the SAF game: Part 2

SARAH ANDERSON 
House progressives unveil 2025 agenda to inspire action for a more equitable nation

JOHN YOUNG 
‘Fake news’ fable: The liar and the Enquirer

LIZ CAREY
Privatized Medicare is putting financial strain on rural hospitals

DICK POLMAN
The Supreme Court, its credibility in tatters, is goose-stepping for Trump in slow motion

JOE CONASON
When moral hygiene becomes a lethal mistake

HEIDI SHIERHOLZ 
Looking for a better job? Good news! 

DAVID McCALL 
Building resilience, saving lives

JOSEPH B. ATKINS 
UAW organizers hope Chattanooga VW win opens South to unions

SONALI KOLHATKAR  
Prison communications: Increasingly free, but prisoners still aren’t

THOM HARTMANN  
Would ‘dictator’ Trump kill his rivals? 

GENE NICHOL 
Election interference

JOEL D. JOSEPH  
The Supreme Court should lift the stay in the Trump immunity case 

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas  
The crack that is a chasm: Medicaid unwinding

SAM URETSKY 
Trump’s deteriorating state of mind is an issue

WAYNE O’LEARY
Is democratic capitalism the answer? 

CLAUDE CUMMINGS JR.  
Don’t let Congress widen the digital divide

HELEN H. ABRAHA  
Restaurant workers deserve a livable wage, too

JUAN COLE 
‘Intifada’ in Arabic just means uprising or mass protest; it is used for the Jewish Warsaw uprising

N. GUNASEKARAN
The evil of inequality and wrong prescriptions

JAMIE STIEHM 
A light in the House: Farewell to a Senate friend

BARRY FRIEDMAN 
The receding view of Rudy Giuliani

SETH SANDRONSKY 
Lethal workplaces: Deaths on the job continue

RALPH NADER
Palestinians as ‘The Others’

RICH WANDSCHNEIDER
How did so much stuff pile up? 

ROB PATTERSON 
Dick Wolf gets back to the basics with ‘Homicide’ docs

SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson  
Did he or didn’t he

FILM REVIEW/Ed Rampell 
The ‘Coachella of Classic Movies’ rides again at Hollywood

AMY GOODMAN
Campus protests, press freedom and Israel’s war on Palestine.

From The Progressive Populist, June 1, 2024

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