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Selections from the June 15, 2024 issue

 COVER/Hal Crowther 

Campus in crisis: Clueless on Gaza?

EDITORIAL
Big Lie Party clowns

JIM HIGHTOWER 
God bless the nurses. And please hurry! 
That stench of corruption you smell is coming from the Supreme Court. 
Hoo boy ... DeJoy! 
Culture war stupidly plunges into absurdity 

FRANK LINGO 
Tripping the right fantastic

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

DON ROLLINS 
School boards and the fragility of progress

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen 
Truth in food labeling: bringing it home

DISPATCHES 
Poll: Trump losing in court of public opinion. ‘We’ll be back,’ says UAW chief after ‘tough loss’ in Alabama.
Rudy’s taunt at Arizona AG didn’t age well. 
Voters credit Biden and Trump equally in infrastructure. Only one got it done.
Republicans are making it harder and more hazardous to register new voters.
Poll shows Biden and Trump supporters are sharply divided by media they consume.
Texas Gov. Abbott pardons racist murderer.

ART CULLEN 
Getting a charge down the river and back

ALAN GUEBERT 
Here comes the 2024 Farm Bill, there goes any 2024 reforms


LINDSAY OWENS 
Trump’s corporate tax cuts paved the way for inflation

JOHN YOUNG 
‘Civil War’ on screen: Secessionists’ dream

LEA WOODS and JULIE KASHEN  
How public investment can create jobs — and ease the child care crunch

DICK POLMAN 
Stormy dished the dirty details that Trump hid from voters on ‘16 election eve

JOE CONASON 
Donald Trump, drenched in tabloid sleaze

ELWOOD WATSON 
Republicans of color aren’t standing up to racism 

DAVID McCALL 
Solidarity sends the bullies packing

JEREMY SCHWARTZ, ProPublica  
Former far-right hard-liner says billionaires are using school board races to sow distrust in public education


ROBERT KUTTNER 
Biden’s new tariffs on Chinese EVs

CANDACE MILNER
This graduation season, debt relief still feels out of reach for young borrowers

THOM HARTMANN  
Trump is willing to trade our children’s future for a billion dollars


SONALI KOLHATKAR
Weight loss drugs go hand-in-hand with junk food industry 

CARLA VENTURA 
I run a food pantry, but it’s not enough. We need funding for SNAP. 

JESSICA GARCIA 
‘Bluelining’ leaves climate vulnerable communities without home insurance 

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas  
Victories for middle-income America

SAM URETSKY 
The decline of tabloids and everything else

PAUL ARMENTANO  
The beginning of the end of cannabis prohibition

WAYNE O’LEARY 
Lyndon Baines Biden 

SAM PIZZIGATI 
The toughest job today’s richest ever face?

ROBERT C. KOEHLER  
A world under spiritual construction

JUAN COLE 
Tens of thousands of Israelis demonstrate against Netanyahu, demand hostage exchange deal, new elections

KEN WINKES 
Hijacked — the work ethic

JAMIE STIEHM 
A rose helps quiet the noise inside

BARRY FRIEDMAN 
Shades of 1932 Deutschland

SETH SANDRONSKY
Prison costs busting California’s budget? 

RALPH NADER
Ultraprocessed deadly corporate food demands action

TED WILLIAMS 
Bobcats need protection, not killing for their pelts

ROB PATTERSON 
Ozzy Osbourne belongs in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson  
Noem sweet Noem

FILM REVIEW/Ed Rampell 
TCM’s ‘Woodstock of Classic Movies’ presents vintage films & stars galore

From The Progressive Populist, June 15, 2024


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