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Selections from the February 15, 2024 issue

 COVER/Sarah Jane Tribble and Tony Leys, KFF Health News

Federal program to save rural hospitals feels ‘growing pains’

EDITORIAL 
Republicans need border crisis

JIM HIGHTOWER
When private enterprise fails, public enterprise must step up. 
Let’s send all billionaires to Mars! 
Forget millionaires, a few billionaires are now stealing our country. 
Martin Luther King Jr. didn’t just dream; he organized!

FRANK LINGO 
Because. One. Man. Lied. 

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

DON ROLLINS 
The GOP sells its soul once again

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen 
There’s lots of land, but who owns it?  

DISPATCHES 
Report finds inflation is largely due to corporate greed.
Progressive lawmakers unveil bill to attack ‘disease’ of corporate greed.
Senate Finance chief rips GOP’s ‘backroom scheme’ to cut Social Security, Medicare.
Biden marks Roe anniversary with new protections for abotion.
Bipartisan plan could ease child poverty ...


ART CULLEN 
Requiem for the caucuses

ALAN GUEBERT
‘Elect me because I’ll send you more federal money than the other guy’


CLARA MOORE 
The Child Tax Credit changed my life. Lawmakers have a chance to bring it back

JOHN YOUNG 
Biden gets right to the heart

JUDITH GRAHAM 
America’s health system isn’t ready for the surge of seniors with disabilities

DICK POLMAN 
Rapist-insurrectionist ices a win in Iowa, buoyed by cultists who love lies and marinate in ignorance 

JOE CONASON
If Black voters abandon Biden, what will they get instead? 

JOEL D. JOSEPH
Apple should settle with Masimo or buy it

DAVID MCCALL 
Advancing worker safety

LES LEOPOLD 
Is the heart and soul of Trump’s MAGA base really the White working class? 


ROBERT KUTTNER
How progressives went to pot

CHUCK COLLINS 
The rich own nearly all stocks. Level the playing field with ‘baby bonds’ 

THOM HARTMANN  
Can democracy survive the morbidly rich?


SONALI KOLHATKAR  
The right to housing, not vacation homes


GENE NICHOL 
Party of shame and sedition 

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas  
Tweak the algorithm: A battle cry for our times

SAM URETSKY 
Health professionals bridle as managers take over 

SETH SANDRONSKY 
The changing face of Catholic health care

WAYNE O’LEARY 
The return of business republicanism

SAM PIZZIGATI  
How to restore trust in the US? Tax the rich

JUAN COLE 
Could Israel’s Gaza atrocity spiral into a Red Sea war and sink Biden’s reelection? 

N. GUNASEKARAN 
Climate change and socio-economic disruption in Asia

JASON SIBERT 
Reevaluate ties with Israel

JAMIE STIEHM 
Mean Girls in the House

BARRY FRIEDMAN
I am the reason Amazon drivers can’t pee

LEEANN HALL
Biden’s new transit rule is good news for people and the planet

RALPH NADER 
Five omnicides facing our unprepared world


STEPHEN TRIMBLE 
A terrible dilemma faces the Great Basin

ROB PATTERSON 
‘Sly’ ups my esteem for Stallone

BOOK REVIEW/Ken Winkes  
Hitler had his fans in 1930s America 

ED RAMPELL  
Roger Stone’s storm and stormtroopers


From The Progressive Populist, February 15, 2024


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