Selections from the October 1, 2024 issue

 COVER/Matt Vasilogambros 

In small towns, even GOP clerks are targets of election conspiracies

EDITORIAL
Dems must run scared to win

JIM HIGHTOWER
Can mass media promote democracy instead of Divisiveness? Here’s a guy who did.
Will Elon betray Donald first, or vice versa? | 
Establishment economists attack Kamala Harris — for being right | 
The right-wing attach on Social Security is un-American

FRANK LINGO
Judge keeps cancer alley polluting

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

DON ROLLINS
Fact check Trump, turn the tables

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Childless Americans help save the Earth

DISPATCHES
Harris’ newly released policies stand in stark contrast to Trump’s.
Trump ratchets up Arlington Cemetery denial as aides involved in assault are named.
Don’t send Afghanistan withdrawal down the memory hole.
Boeing union wins 25% raise in tentative contract, but possible strike still looms.
Trump gets head start on Big Lie 2.0 with focus on mail-in voting.
House Rs are back and holding gov’t hostage.

ART CULLEN 
Yearning to turn the page

ALAN GUEBERT 
Bird flu in cows and poultry continues to fly high

SARAH ANDERSON
The big rip: Low wage corporations spent half a billion inflating CEO pay

JOHN YOUNG 
Trump’s regard for military couldn’t be lower

ELWOOD WATSON
J.D. Vance couldn’t be more wrong about parenthood

DICK POLMAN 
On abortion, the flip-flopping blowhard still blows every which way whichever wind blows him

JOE CONASON 
Trump’s Arlington Cemetery visit: Unsavory and unsurprising

ALGERNON AUSTIN and DEDRICK ASANTE-MUHAMMAD
The paradox of progress for Black Americans

DAVID McCALL 
A worker for vice president

NANCY J. ALTMAN 
Working families’ earned Social Security benefits are at risk

ROBERT KUTTNER
How much money do the ultra rich need?

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet  
Capitalism’s intertwined ills

THOM HARTMANN  
America’s new epidemic: A nation overrun by bullies

LIZ CAREY 
Report: Rural women see drops in health and reproductive care

THE BIG PICTURE/Glynn Wilson 
Labor Day news and cemetery blues

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas  
“Be afraid, very afraid” of Trump

SONALI KOLHATKAR  
Harris’s failed opportunity? 

WAYNE O’LEARY 
The politics of joy

JOSEPH B. ATKINS 
Why don’t we have a major party peace candidate who supports workers? 

SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson  
The worm has turned

JUAN COLE 
Massive demonstrations, national strike in Israel as crowds blame PM Netanyahu for deaths of hostages

N. GUNASEKARAN 
Political instability in Bangladesh: A brainchild of its neoliberal settings

JOEL D. JOSEPH 
Jack Smith’s brief lacks a sense of urgency

JAMIE STIEHM
Arlington: No place for traitors to feel at home

BARRY FRIEDMAN 
The state I’m in

SETH SANDRONSKY 
Reviewing Black capitalism

ZEKE LLOYD 
Hikers in a wilderness turn into firefighters

ROB PATTERSON 
Is Randy Rainbow worth another Trump presidency? 

FILM REVIEW/Ed Rampell 
A critique of “The Critic”

AMY GOODMAN 
First step in stopping school shootings: Ban assault weapons

GENE NICHOL 
Abandoning democracy

From The Progressive Populist, October 1, 2024

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