Selections from the February 15, 2021 issue

 COVER/Art Cullen 

Biden’s ag chief sees big shift in farms to battle climate change

EDITORIAL 
Go big or go home

FRANK LINGO 
It’s been a fun-filled 4 years

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

DON ROLLINS 
A liberal’s lament: When the governed won’t be governed anymore

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen  
Let’s cool our jets

DISPATCHES 
More than 30 cops linked to Capitol riot. 
Feds mull letting non-violent Capitol rioters go.
Trump supporters continue to plot violence as second impeachment trial approaches. 
Giuliani continues to double down on Big Lies, so Dominion sues him for $1.3 billion. 
Washington Post: Trump told 30,573 lies as president. Biden urged to fire Postal Service board for complicity in ‘sabotage.’ 
Tom Cotton stretched truth in 'Army Ranger' claim. 
AZ GOP censures Gov. Ducey, Flake and McCain, signaling fracture in swing state.
Trump was the accelerant in encouraging hate and political violence ...

ART CULLEN 
Reasons for optimism despite what we have endured

JOHN YOUNG 
Camo or no, traitors were clearly visible 

JILL RICHARDSON 
The time I got coffee with Hollywood satanists

JIM GOODMAN
After four years, accountability is long overdue

HAL CROWTHER 
Facing the founder on a day of shame

DICK POLMAN 
Goodbye MAGA, hello MGWA (Make Government Work Again)

JAKE JOHNSON 
Incoming Senate Budget Chair Bernie Sanders lays out visionary first 100 days for Biden

TOM CONWAY 
American workers have been taken to the brink

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet  
Fix the broken health system

DEDRICK ASANTE-MUHAMMAD and TYLER BOND 
Obama didn’t close the racial wealth divide. Can Biden?

SETH SANDRONSKY 
Manufacturing ‘democracy’

JOSEPH B. ATKINS 
Citizen Trump

SONALI KOLHATKAR 
Dear Republicans, was your deal with Trump worth it? 

ROBERTO Dr. CINTLI RODRIGUEZ  
Bring down the damn wall, now!

KENNY STANCIL
Warning against further ‘erosion’ of civil liberties, Tlaib leads charge against new domestic terrorism laws

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas  
Vaccination: A call for the Biden plan

SAM URETSKY
Too soon for a victory lap, but democracy is still standing

SARAH ANDERSON 
Workers need paid sick leave right this minute

WAYNE O’LEARY 
MediScam

JOHN BUELL 
Restoring workers’ trust

LAWRENCE S. WITTNER 
The great evasion

SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson  
The beat goes on

BOOK REVIEW/Heather Seggel  
Failing upwards

PAULA GREEN 
How do we heal now?

KENNY STANCIL
Janet Yellen gave progressives a lot to be happy about as Biden’s treasury secretary pick

MOVIE REVIEW/Ed Rampell  
By any means necessary: The FBI vs. Civil Rights

BOB BURNETT 
In defense of civility

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