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Selections from the September 1, 2024 issue

 COVER/Tim Marena

Rural Democrats urge sense of humor, respect, and showing up

EDITORIAL
Harris rises, Trump declines

JIM HIGHTOWER
‘Laffin’ Kamala’ vs. ‘Grumpin’ Trump’.
J.D. Vance: Silicon Valley’s fake hillbilly. 
Trump and his GOP sycophants driven crazy by Kamala. 
Yes, Kamala Harris stands for diversity and equality — so does America. 

FRANK LINGO
Good news for Earth

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

DON ROLLINS 
Watching hockey with the next vice president

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Work for Kamala but prepare for the worst

DISPATCHES 
Trump boils as Kamala Harris gets big crowds.
Trump confuses Browns, helicopter rides, and trash talking Kamala.
Harris pulls ahead of Trump in swing states.
Don’t ignore investigation into whether Trump took $10 million from Egypt.
New poll shows Kamala Harris gaining trust on economy,
Republicans smear Tim Walz with lies ...

ART CULLEN
Black jobs, Hmong jobs and snow jobs

ALAN GUEBERT 
You’re fired! Trump’s deportation plan would gut half ag labor force


ALLIYAH LUSUEGRO 
Mass deportations would be a nightmare

JOHN YOUNG 
Trump, healer of ‘discord and division’? Har har

CLAIRE CARLSON 
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz gives Harris campaign rural cred

SUSAN ESTRICH 
‘Donald being Donald’

DICK POLMAN 
Does the cornered old criminal have a Plan B? 

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
A defining moment

JOE CONASON
Why Kamala Harris laughs at J.D. Vance

DAVID McCALL
Holding workers in contempt

RICHARD D. WOLFF 
The undemocratic reality of capitalism


ROBERT KUTTNER 
Powell’s perverse policies persist

THOM HARTMANN
Trump’s political downfall: The ‘fat Elvis’ phase begins? 

SABRINA HAAKE
Our falling IQ shows in the polls

SONALI KOLHATKAR  
Who’s a bigger threat to democracy — immigrants, or billionaires? 


ELWOOD WATSON
Kamala Harris is a mirror to the racist right 

GLYNN WILSON 
The big picture

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas  
Abortion bans: Pandora’s box

SAM URETSKY 
Taking chances with health care

SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson  
How do you spell C-R-I-N-G-E?

WAYNE O’LEARY
Sunset over Milwaukee

JOEL D. JOSEPH 
Why are we subsidizing Mexican electric vehicles? 

JASON SIBERT 
Thanks to Trump’s withdrawal from deal, Iran nears production of nuclear weapons

JUAN COLE 
Walz called Gaza situation ‘intolerable,’ sought ceasefire, praised uncommitted; Shapiro did not

N. GUNASEKARAN 
State brutality in the name of ‘austerity’

JAMIE STIEHM 
Virtual fences: Are we all ‘phono sapiens’ now? 

BARRY FRIEDMAN 
Six weeks in America

SETH SANDRONSKY 
Black jobs? 

RALPH NADER 
Labor Day 2024 — massive actions for worker livelihoods


PETER GARTRELL  
Coal continues its precipitous decline

ROB PATTERSON 
The year the Yankees bottomed out

ED RAMPELL 
New museum, award honor Woody Guthrie


AMY GOODMAN 
‘Welcome to Hell’: U.S. silence on Israel’s network of torture camps


GENE NICHOL 
Trump forces Republicans out of the closet on race

From The Progressive Populist, September 1, 2024


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