Selections from the December 15, 2024 issue

COVER/Arthur Allen
Scientists fear what’s next for public health if RFK Jr. is allowed to ‘go wild’

EDITORIAL
Progressives need media to keep hope alive.

JIM HIGHTOWER
How Trump’s made-in-America scam still means made-in-China | Democrats’ rural problem is they’ve forgotten how to farm | Look to maine for some good news! | The moderate, milquetoast Democratic Party loses another big one

FRANK LINGO 
Talking me down from the ledge

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

DON ROLLINS 
Rural gentrification: It’s just empty land

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Keep fighting

DISPATCHES 
Trump nomination of Project 2025 architect means Social Security, Medicare at risk. 
Unions note Labor pick’s ‘pro-union’ record, ‘but Donald Trump is the president-elect.’
What will Trump and GOP Congress do to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau?
Wall Street cheers Trump’s Treasury pick.
GOP senators shrug off rape allegation against Trump Defense secretary pick ...
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ART CULLEN 
A place where the truth can live

ALAN GUEBERT 
Just how expensive is U.S. food? 

NADIA HASAN 
Most of us will be disabled eventually. We need real disability benefits.

JOHN YOUNG 
Right hand on my heart, left hand on the mute

LES LEOPOLD 
Revenge of the deplorables?

JOE CONASON 
Will the Senate save America from Trump’s Cabinet?

SAM PIZZIGATTI
From taxing the rich to defending unions, the best defense against Trump will be offense

MARKOS MOULITSAS ZÚNIGA 
Trump voters f’d around — now they’re about to find out

ROBERT KUTTNER 
Quirks of right-wing populism

KRISTI EATON 
Report: Broadband can transform a rural community

THOM HARTMANN  
Transitional oligarchy: Democracy’s last stand? 

SABRINA HAAKE 
A giant middle finger from a tiny, craven man 

SARAH ANDERSON 
When given a choice, voters fought back against inequality

HIBBA MERAAY 
Extensive polls find Americans support taxing the wealthy

ROBERT B. REICH  
There was no mandate for Trump. There was no red shift. There was only a blue abandonment

THE BIG PICTURE/Glynn Wilson 
Putin sees America hurtling to disaster, with Trump at the wheel

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas  
The vanishing physician

SAM URETSKY 
RFK Jr. makes diseases deadly again

WAYNE O’LEARY 
The Democratic crack-up

JUAN COLE 
Gaza as Israel’s AI-driven high-tech genocide: UN

DAMON ORION 
Grassroots organizations are helping rebuild North Carolina communities after Hurricane Helene

JAMIE STIEHM 
Trump serves revenge, dares Senate to defy

BARRY FRIEDMAN
Letters to the nation

SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson  
Killin’ it at the border

RALPH NADER 
The Democratic Senate must hold public hearings before Jan. 3, 2025

JENNIFER ROKALA 
Public land protectors are ready for a fight

ROB PATTERSON 
The pleasures of literate mystery novels (take one)

FILM REVIEW/Ed Rampell 
We’re off to see the ‘Wicked,’ the wonderful wicked of Oz

BOOK REVIEW/Seth Sandronsky  
COVID ends? 

AMY GOODMAN 
COP29: The dictatorship of the petroletariat

ELWOOD WATSON 
Kamala Harris remains an inspiring figure, even after election loss

From The Progressive Populist, December 15, 2024

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