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Selections from the March 15, 2024 issue

 COVER/Art Cullen

Breaking the Red Wall

EDITORIAL
Bill for Trump’s lies comes due

JIM HIGHTOWER
What is a banker’s promise worth? 
The debacle of ‘God’s army’ at Eagle Pass. 
Abortion-ban extremists are using a slave law to repress women. 
Where did our local newspapers go? 

FRANK LINGO
Peace and the planet

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

DON ROLLINS 
A puzzle, a wonder and a miracle

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen 
The weeds fight back. What’s next? 

DISPATCHES 
Trump underperformance in South Carolina is anti-MAGA triumph.
Trump’s weekend at CPAC was tour de force of bigotry and incompetence.
Childcare crisis grips US as IRS chief says wealthy tax dodgers cost $150B a year.
Trump will destroy health care, and his voters don’t care.
Make big money peddling COVID misinfo
Catholic leaders protest Texas AG’s lawsuit targeting El Paso migrant ministry.


ART CULLEN 
Vilsack’s lament

ALAN GUEBERT 
From ink to electrons, the retirement of print journalism


SARAH ANDERSON 
Poor, low-income voters are a sleeping giant

JOHN YOUNG 
Agent Orange’s inspiration: “Be like Vlad”


DICK POLMAN
Putin’s bootlicker condones political murder. He wants to bring Kremlin values to the White House. 

JOE CONASON
Behind the special counsel smear of Biden

JOHN CULLEN 
Old enough to know better

DAVID McCALL 
Solidarity saved him 

LES LEOPOLD 
Did Wall Street just end the class war?  


ROBERT KUTTNER
Dealing with the bad stewards

THOM HARTMANN
Why the corporate tax bracket should go back to 52%


SONALI KOLHATKAR
Cash bail system violates due process

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Scrooge returns: No food for children during the summer

SAM URETSKY 
Supreme Court takes on ballot access

FARRAH HASSEN  
The rent is still too high 

WAYNE O’LEARY
The empire reenergized

LINDSAY K. SAUNDERS
Having a child shouldn’t cause financial catastrophe

JAKE JOHNSON
Labor leaders condemn GOP fiscal commission as anti-worker ‘power grab’

JUAN COLE
Biden, tired of being called ‘Genocide Joe,’ finally blinks

GENE NICHOL
The attorney general’s jam

ELWOOD WATSON
Women and the future of politics

JAMIE STIEHM 
Lincoln’s life lesson on saving democracy

BARRY FRIEDMAN 
The summer of our discontent/party one

SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson  
All Tuckered out

SUSAN HARLEY 
Free tax filing: A crucial step toward unrigging our economy

RALPH NADER 
Biden & Blinken — rule of illegal power over rule of law


JOHN CLAYTON 
You’re not the boss in wilderness

ROB PATTERSON 
Max is anything but that

SETH SANDRONSKY 
Book it: Reading about heterodox economics

FILM REVIEW/Ed Rampell 
‘Kipkemboi’: Kenya’s genius, from a mud hut to Wall Street

From The Progressive Populist, March 15, 2024


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