Friday, June 11, 2021

Selections from the July 1-15, 2021 issue

 COVER/Sonali Kolhatkar 

Does the US really need another oil pipeline?

EDITORIAL
Return of the Grifter

FRANK LINGO 
The ReTrumplican party

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

SARAH ANDERSON 
A plan to end poverty in the United States

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen 
Be ready when the internet goes down

DISPATCHES 
Far-right gang plotted violence to blame on left, then members killed cops. 
Arizona ‘fraudit’ recount generates tourism. 
Biden, Obama celebrate record ACA enrollments while Supreme Court ponders the law’s fate.
Republicans 'forget' that Trump fired embedded CDC observer in China months before outbreak.
Dems won Georgia, but gerrymanders kept legislature Republican. 
Turns out people are less anxious about money when they have money. 
Study shows conservatives hear, and believe, more fake news than libs.
Texas AB says Trump would have 'lost' Texas if he hadn't blocked mail-in ballot applications.
QAnon believers seek local positions of power. ...


ART CULLEN 
‘Storm Lake’ film is a labor of love about Iowa


JILL RICHARDSON 
If you love our country, don’t ban its history

JOHN YOUNG 
Trust research or, um, Tucker Carlson? 

MOLLY ABSOLON
You can explore the West and escape the crowds

SETH SANDRONSKY 
NBA Kings financial flop to hit city services?


JASON SIBERT 
AI may be moving in the wrong direction

TOM CONWAY 
Ending the race to the bottom

SAM PIZZIGATI 
How everyone getting more equal slices of the economic pie can curb the ‘velocity of wealth’


THOM HARTMANN p. 13
Could QAnon reign mean the ‘end times’ for democracy? 


ROBERTO RODRIGUEZ 
The killing of people of color approximates wartime nubers

BOB BURNETT 
California faces water crisis

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas 
Cheap insurance: Trump’s minefield surprises

SAM URETSKY
Taxes should promote philanthropy

WAYNE O’LEARY
The world of woke

JOHN BUELL
Take this job and ...

LINDSAY KOSHGARIAN 
Biden’s unconscionable military budget

N. GUNASEKARAN 
The COVID surge and Asia’s distress


BOOK REVIEW/Heather Seggel 
Such delightful sisters

ROB PATTERSON 
Left journalists move online 


MOVIE REVIEW/Ed Rampell 
The news never sleeps in ‘Storm Lake’


SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson
You think the coronavirus was bad? Ha!


GENE NICHOL
Destroying Carolina

and more ...

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