Selections from the October 1, 2023 issue

 COVER/Elisabeth Rosenthal 

Why are your medical bills so high? Look as your latest hospital merger 

EDITORIAL 
Give Bidenomics credit

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

DON ROLLINS 
Project 2025: A coup by another name

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen 
Hog and chicken ‘farms’ might move into the city

DISPATCHES 
Rep. Jamie Raskin blows up Republican lies about alleged Biden corruption.
Can Senate Republicans stop House extremists from helping Putin?
Biden’s signature economic policy is paying off.
Why Republicans want to defund IRS.
Red state profs are eyeing the exits as Republican lawmakers get involved in higher education..

ART CULLEN 
Truth: Mexicans don’t set your pay. They scoop corn. 

ALAN GUEBERT 
New, long overdue efforts to reform federal commodity checkoffs

OLIVIA ALPERSTEIN
A crossroads for workers with disabilities

JOHN YOUNG 
Racist designs of the Big Lie players

BRAM SABLE-SMITH 
Funyuns and flu shots? Gas station company ventures into urgent care 

DICK POLMAN 
Nikki Haley’s shameless fascist-adjacent flip flops

SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson 
His very nature

TOM CONWAY 
The power of a first contract

TOM GALLAGHER 
Whatever happened to American populism?

ROBERT KUTTNER 
The economy: Steady as she goes

FELIX ALLEN  
Don’t blame workers for poor service — blame our CEOs

THOM HARTMANN  
Housing: How do we protect one of the primary essentials of life? 

SONALI KOLHATKAR  
Making sense of Florida’s nonsensical history curriculum

SETH SANDRONSKY 
In California, corporate interests fight housing solutions

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
States as countinghouses

SAM URETSKY 
Misinformation on COVID abounds

MARK ANDERSON 
Fixing the economy

WAYNE O’LEARY
Greedonomics at the supermarket

SAM PIZZIGATI 
The lost art (and joy) of taxing the rich

N. GUNASEKARAN
Israeli judicial reform and decline of democracies in Asia

MITCHELL ZIMMERMAN
Trump isn’t too big to jail

BARRY FRIEDMAN
De Mortuis Nil Nisi Bonum

FRANK LINGO
My electric car adventure

RALPH NADER
Mass media: Stop being a Trump megaphone and cover civic critics rebutting him

MARJORIE “SLIM” WOODRUFF
There’s such a thing as trail etiquette

ROB PATTERSON 
Sorrow for Bruce Willis, the best bartender that ever served me

ED RAMPELL  
Remembering Chile’s coup on film 

From The Progressive Populist, October 1, 2023

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