Saturday, April 30, 2022

Selections from the May 15, 2022, issue of The Progressive Populist

 COVER/Sam Davis

Federal law allows logging, farming and mining to threaten America’s ecosystems

EDITORIAL
GOP distractions work


FRANK LINGO
Interview with Mother Earth

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

DEDRICK ASANTE-MUHAMMED & GERARDO SANCHEZ HERRERA MORO
Crypto is a risky bet for Black Americans. There are better ways to close the racial gap while helping Americans of every color. 

DON ROLLINS 
Adam Kinzinger’s Plucky

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen 
A sustainable world must cross party lines

DISPATCHES 
Republicans picked wrong Dem to lie about. 
As pump price soars, Big Oil CEOs enjoy windfall paydays. Trump’s Big Lie rules Rs, and traditional media lets them get away with it. Fulton County, Ga., grand jury assembles in Trump probe. California briefly runs on 97% renewable energy. DeSantis revenge on Disney could cost surrounding counties billions.


ART CULLEN 
All signs point to higher food costs

ALAN GUEBERT 
First steps in ag climate fight are honesty and courage, not offsets and credits

GENE LYONS
Caution: Sharp left turn ahead

ERICA SMILEY and SARITA GUPTA
Democracy needs you — not just at the polls, but at work too

JOHN YOUNG 
The shrinking tent of Trump’s GOP

PROPUBLICA 
America’s top 15 earners and what they reveal about the US tax system


BENJAMIN WADDELL
Affordable housing shouldn’t have to take a miracle

TOM CONWAY 
Restoring America’s manufacturing might


SAM PIZZIGATI 
Biden is pushing for a Tom Paine tax plan

THOM HARTMANN 
It’s time to nationalize the fossil fuel industry

SONALI KOLHATKAR 
Abortion foes played the long game, and they are winning


DR. CINTLI 
Don’t say Mexican

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
The poor: Caught in drug-bureaucracy

SAM URETSKY 
Finding the truth in the ‘news’

BASAV SEN 
Pushing back on ‘soft climate denial’

WAYNE O’LEARY 
Maine’s struggle for public power

AARON RUPAR 
Mike Lee’s texts and the coup in search of a legal theory

BOB BURNETT 
Ukraine: Republican disinformation


BARRY FRIEDMAN 
Hava Nagila in Iceland

FARRAH HASSEN 
How the US can help get justice for Ukrainians


GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet  
System failures

ROB PATTERSON
Beware megabillionaire with big plans for Twitter

SETH SANDRONSKY 
Sacramento shooting aftermath: Interviewing a community advocate

ED RAMPELL 
‘The Power of Big Oil’ exposes corporate climate change deniers and doubters


SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson  
Easter egg hunt, dictator style

GENE NICHOL 
Dignity and healthcare

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