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Selections from the January 1-15, 2023 issue

 COVER/Robert Kuttner 

It’s time to try progressive bipartisanship

EDITORIAL 
Get ready for 2024; Protect railway workers


FRANK LINGO 
Manatees need protection to survive

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

DON ROLLINS 
Christianity’s durability being tested

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Don’t let them divide us

DISPATCHES 
Record turnout in Georgia? There was a record collapse.
Reports of ‘breakthrough’ in fusion power fuels hopes of major clean energy progress.
Keystone Pipeline spills 600,000 gallons of tar sands oil in Kansas.
Biggest election of 2023 is battle for control of Wisconsin Supreme Court.
McCarthy doesn’t understand what the debt ceiling is. Dems can’t let him anywhere near it.
GOP fight spills over to committee assignments...


ART CULLEN 
Ro Khanna on a lonely campaign on the back roads

ALAN GUEBERT
You’re a neoliberal, I’m a neoliberal, we’re all neoliberals — for now


NANCY J. ALTMAN 
Good news for the 65 million Americans who rely on Social Security

JOHN YOUNG 
Thoughts and prayers and vicious slurs

ROBERT KUTTNER
The added benefits of Warnock’s win

DICK POLMAN 
Final midterm celebration: Georgia voters defeat the dolt and solidify Senate Democratic power


PAUL SONN 
The midterms mean cities and states are where workers must fight to improve their jobs

SARAH IZABEL
Congress: Help struggling famlies before it’s too late

TOM CONWAY 
Union solidarity is driving better health care

JOSEPH B. ATKINS
Democrats have lost blue-collar voters

DICK POLMAN 
Beaten and battered yet again, Republicans can’t seem to fathom why it happened


PERLA TREVIZO and  
JEREMY SCHWARTZ, ProPublica
DOJ tried to hide report warning that private border wall in Texas could collapse


THOM HARTMANN  
Is ‘creative expression’ the new strategy for ‘Christian’ fundamendalists and SCOTUS to heart bigots?

DR. CINTLI 
Healing from spiritual violence and historical trauma?

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas  
Children: A modern take on Dickens

SAM URETSKY
What will it take to bring rural areas back to the Democratic party?

SETH SANDRONSKY 
UC union strikers hold the line

WAYNE O’LEARY 
Medicare is dying: Where are the Democrats? 

SAM PIZZIGATI 
Elon Musk may not be so brilliant after all

LINDSAY KOSHGARIAN 
We need a smaller Pentagon


JOEL D. JOSEPH 
Immunity for Mohammed Bin Salman is a grave mistake

JASON SIBERT 
Laws can’t stop a nuclear attack


BARRY FRIEDMAN
Guess who’s staying for dinner

MELINDA BURRELL 
What’s in a speech? Rebuilding a welcoming political culture


SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson 
God’s great gaffe

BRIAN SEXTON 
Red Flag laws work, but they have to be used

ROB PATTERSON 
Sherlock Holmes’ younger sister

MARK ANDERSON 
Republicans are coming after your Social Security

FILM REVIEW/Ed Rampell  
The goldin girls


GENE NICHOL 
Pelosi’s farewell

From The Progressive Populist, January 1-15, 2023


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