Friday, October 13, 2023

Selections from the November 1, 2023 issue

COVER/Sarah Jane Tribble 
What mobile clinics in Dollar General parking lots say about health care in rural America

EDITORIAL 
Chaos rules the House


FRANK LINGO
Commander’s side of the story

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

DON ROLLINS 
In defense of scrap culture

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen 
Debt before dishonor

DISPATCHES 
UAW wins protection for GM battery plant workers in concession. Members strike at Mack Trucks facilities after rejecting deal.
Media works hard on spinning good jobs numbers into bad economic news.
Texas attorney general files criminal complaints against impeachment managers.
Trump boasts support from Hannibal Lecter.
Guns now leading cause of accidental deaths for kids.
RFK Jr. siblings denounce independent run ...


ART CULLEN 
Give me a home where the buffalo roam

ALAN GUEBERT 
Fake meat is mostly a fake-out for now


DENISE KOHR 
The price of Amazon’s ‘Prime’ business model is our bodies

JOHN YOUNG 
Court-adjudicated as baloney

SAM PIZZIGATI 
Time for a general strike on Dollar General

DICK POLMAN 
Burning down the house: Purging their own speaker is another chapter in the long saga of Republican dysfunction


SHAILLY GUPTA BARNES
A wake up call on poverty

TOM CONWAY 
Fighting killer dust

LES LEOPOLD 
The inside story of how Wall Street fleeced GM autoworkers and taxpayers 


ROBERT KUTTNER
The EU’s tough new rules for tech

THOM HARTMANN  
The GOP’s ‘Red Caesar’ plan marches forward


SONALI KOLHATKAR  
Kids shouldn’t have to pay for school lunches

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Sweet charity: A hospital’s take on the virtue

SAM URETSKY 
Does a college education pay off? 


WAYNE O’LEARY 
Labor’s moment

SETH SANDRONSKY
Taking to the streets to get homeless into houses

JUAN COLE
EVs selling like hotcakes: 1 million sold in US during past year — which is why UAW workers deserve Green New Deal

MEL GURTOV 
Alarm over Kim Jong Un’s Russia trip

JOEL D. JOSEPH 
Seize Starlink from Elon Musk


BARRY FRIEDMAN 
A jury of my peers (part one)

GENE NICHOL 
Race and the NC Supreme Court 

RALPH NADER
Good news — big opportunities on the horizon

JEFF COHEN and NORMAN SOLOMON
Shifting 2024 strategy further reveals RFK Jr. is no friend to progressives

DAVE MARSTON 
Goats can be a forest’s best friend

ROB PATTERSON 
Peter O’Toole’s thespian greatness

SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson
We’ve evolved, why haven’t they? 

ED RAMPELL  

Filmmaker connects dots between fugitive slave law and modern-day ‘Karens’ 

From The Progressive Populist, November 1, 2023


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