Selections from the August 1, 2024 issue

 COVER/Mark Olalde 

How America’s ‘Most powerful lobby’ stifles efforts to clean up oil wells in state after state

EDITORIAL
Keep ridin’ with Biden

JIM HIGHTOWER 
Why Louisiana’s kids won’t listen to their pious governor; 
Top corporate executives should have to feel summer heat; 
Should Congress honor Donald Trump with a medal, a statue ... or what?; 
Right wing turns anti-corporate! Sorta ... not really; 
The new Republican plan to enrich the super-rich ... again; 
Let’s put Labor Day to work for workers ... and democracy; 
There’s the good, the bad and the ugly ... and then Sam Alito

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

DON ROLLINS 
Deconstruction time for the Democrats

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen 
Is it too late to switch? 

DISPATCHES 
With attention on presidential contest, it’s go R’s go on austerity rampage.
Sanders on Biden: ‘He’s gotta do better.’
‘GOP’ inquisitor says Biden’s doctor is party of the ‘crime family.’
No, Trump hasn’t exercised ‘discipline’ since the debate.
Thirteen states with Republican governors opt out of summer food program for kids ... and more

ART CULLEN 
Warmer water shrinking Gulf dead zone, scientists say

ALAN GUEBERT 
Mexico’s election delivers new leader to tackle old problems

GEORGIA JENSEN
Two years since Dobbs, Americans are fighting to reclaim their rights

JOHN YOUNG 
This debate analysis is about lies, period

DICK POLMAN 
MAGA triumphant: As expected, the convicted criminal’s robed accomplices have screwed the rule of law

JOE CONASON
Steve Bannon and the culture of impurity

GENE NICHOL
Trashing immigrants in North Carolina 

DAVID McCALL 
To the rescue

LES LEOPOLD 
Pillaging by the super-rich will continue until the working class revolts

ROBERT KUTTNER 
A captive and corrupted court

MITCHELL ZIMMERMAN  
The Supreme Court’s immunity ruling gives Trump King George III’s power

THOM HARTMANN  
The new America 2.0 is not a democracy; it’s an oligarchy

SONALI KOLHATKAR  
Biden should end the fossil fuel industry’s secret weapon

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet  
American inhumanity 

FRANK LINGO 
Supreme skullduggery

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas  
A summertime scrooge: Florida basks in meanness

SAM URETSKY 
What thinking machines should you trust?

HEIDI GERARD 
Addiction recovery is hard. Funding it shouldn’t be.  

WAYNE O’LEARY
Joe Biden’s zionist dilemma 

SETH SANDRONSKY 
Organizer says grassroots action is crucial to solving the housing crisis 

JUAN COLE 
Netanyahu, emboldened by Biden’s debate performance, again defies U.S., intensifies attacks on Gaza

N. GUNASEKARAN  
Asia’s economic rise fueled by sweatshop labor

JOEL D. JOSEPH 
How to remove Russia from the U.N. Security Council 

JAMIE STIEHM 
A tragedy in two acts

BARRY FRIEDMAN 
On a Saturday at a plant farm in Oklahoma

SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson  
Kids today!

RALPH NADER 
Biden Trump ‘debate’ — fiascos for both candidates 

RICHARD KNIGHT
Ditch ‘inefficiencies’ give us wetlands

ROB PATTERSON 
Meet the heroine of the hush money case

MARK ANDERSON 
RFK Jr. snubbed

ED RAMPELL 
Pacific islanders oppose colonialism, climate crisis

AMY GOODMAN 
As authoritarianism sweeps the globe, will the U.S. follow?

From The Progressive Populist, August 1, 2024

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