Sunday, November 12, 2023

Selections from the December 1, 2023 issue

 COVER/Sarah Jane Tribble 

Rural hospitals feel the pinch as Medicare Advantage plans grow

EDITORIAL 
Don’t panic on Joe Biden


FRANK LINGO
International Energy Agency paints false rosy future

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

DON ROLLINS 
Sports betting in Ohio: All bets are still on

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen 
Biden should withdraw

DISPATCHES 
Trump’s ominous plan for revenge.
Telling the truth costs Meadows.
Gushing: US oil output under Biden beats Trump record.
Families go hungry since Republicans and Joe Manchin ended child tax credit.
Economy adds 150,000 jobs, unemployment stays below 4%.
Trump reminds workers how weird he is.
Republicans are tanking in battleground House districts.


ART CULLEN 
Listening to rural working families

ALAN GUEBERT 
Now for the really hard, chaotic part


SARAH GERTLER 
Americans need to hear more Palestinian voices

JOHN YOUNG 
Thou shalt not impede gun hobbyists’ fun

POOJA SALHOTRA
COVID-19 funding halted rural hospital closures across Texas, until now


DICK POLMAN 
The most pro-union president in history has scored another big win, in case anyone cares

LAURA CLAWSON 
UAW wins for workers and the environment — and knocks down a favorite Trump talking point

DAVID McCALL 
Pathway to the Middle Class

SAM PIZZIGATI 
Is a ‘Mayday!’ now looming for our billionaire class? 

SARAH ANDERSON 
Why is Biden cracking down on stock buybacks in just one industry? 

ROBERT KUTTNER 
Debunking the latest attack on Social Security 

THOM HARTMANN  
Universal Basic Income: If it works for billionaires’ children, why not the poor? 


SONALI KOLHATKAR  
What’s behind the Texas GOP’s latest attack on people of color? 

SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson  
A plan, a plan, our kingdom for a plan

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas  
The new pseudo-physician legislators

SAM URETSKY 
Pick the right Medicare before you need it

SETH SANDRONSKY 
Pfizer grows by merging with Seagen

WAYNE O’LEARY 
Reaping what’s been sown

LEW KINGSBURY  
Stop warrantless government spying now

WINSLOW MYERS  
Gaza and Maine

JUAN COLE 
If Gaza is a conflict over oil money investments, Norway points to a near future where petroleum is worthless

N. GUNASEKARAN 
The unheard voice of the Global South

JAMIE STIEHM 
Giant pandas make it all better — for a while

BARRY FRIEDMAN 
The box of ducks

PAUL HELLWEG 
Talk to a neighbor, feel better, save humanity

RALPH NADER 
Mass media needs to probe deeper re: Israel/Gaza conflict


DAVE MARSTON 
Creative builders get rural housing done

ROB PATTERSON 
A masterful examination of a music scene

ELWOOD WATSON 
Matt Gaetz is right about the new Republican speaker 

ED RAMPELL  
An anti-racist cinematic masterpiece: ‘Stamped from the Beginning’


GENE NICHOL
Mocking justice


From The Progressive Populist, December 1, 2023


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