Saturday, September 18, 2021

Selections from the October 1, 2021 issue

 COVER/Abrahm Lustgarden

40 Million people rely on the Colorado River. It’s drying up fast. 

EDITORIAL 
Republicans own Delta surge

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

FRANK LINGO 
Privileged block climate progress

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen  
Sustainability needed now more than ever

DISPATCHES 
Majority of Republicans say belief in Trump election ‘steal’ hoax is important part of Republicanism.
Trump led a fascist purge of the Republican Party; now his base is finishing what he started. 
Alabama heart attack victim, turned down at 43 hospitals, ends up dead 200 miles away in Mississippi. 
‘Oath Keepers’ under investigation for Jan. 6 ‘seditionist conspiracy,’ 
FBI search warrant reveals. Proud Boys show up at local school protests, following a larger far-right blueprint.
Child COVID hospitalizations reach a new high schools reopen.
House Dems would fund $3.5T budget with tax hikes.
Repubs' trust in national news drops by half in just 5 years ...


ART CULLEN 
Clipped wings, tiny pretzels

ALAN GUEBERT 
Hold the sickle, CRP needs a new, bigger hammer

JILL RICHARDSON 
Preventing an American Pinochet

JOHN YOUNG 
Road to Kabul via Saigon

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet  
Fertile soil

ROBERT KUTTNER 
Infrastructure summer: Chuck Schumer, China, and Build Back Better

DICK POLMAN
Kudos to the guy who foresaw the ravages of climate change. Too bad he was mocked.

TOM CONWAY
Investing in American families


BOB BURNETT 
Afghanistan: 10 takeaways


DAVID SCHMIDT  
Critical race theory is the new communism: Lessons from an older conservative bogeyman


DR. CINTLI 
Leaving, seeking, finding home


HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas  
The telenovela that is COVID: Waiting for the last episode


SAM URETSKY 
Democracy, if you can keep it


WAYNE O’LEARY 
End of the American empire


JOHN BUELL 
In Afghanistan and Iraq, guerillas’ improvised explosive devices defeated the mighty US military machine


BARRY FRIEDMAN 
Markwayne Mullin and Donald Trump: A love story

SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson  
The revenge of Roe

BOOK REVIEW/Heather Seggel  
Follow the money and the smell of gas

ROB PATTERSON 
Dylan & McCartney deliver goods like the finest vintage wine

SETH SANDRONSKY 
Families and Big Pharma


MOVIE REVIEW/Ed Rampell  
Ed Asner was a proud socialist in Hollywood


GENE NICHOL 
Surrendering without a fight

and more ...

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