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Selections from the July 1-15, 2024 issue

 COVER/Andrea Bernstein 

What Donald Trump’s criminal trial reveals about a potential second term

EDITORIAL 
Big Lie Party backs their guy

JIM HIGHTOWER 
Going from democracy ... to plutocracy ... and now to kleptocracy. 
Return of the swamp drainer: Making a mockery of democracy. 
Cruising along with Ted Cruz. 
How silly can right-wing culture warriors get? 
An anti-abortion creep: Worse than a snake in the grass. 
What if our lawmakers were working-class people? 

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

DON ROLLINS 
A farewell to Bill Walton

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen 
Voter challenges coming

DISPATCHES 
Study makes case to abolish Medicare Advantage.
Trump’s guilty verdict driving away voters he can’t afford to lose.
Trump’s losing streak continues with New Jersey liquor license in jeopardy.
House R’s amp up their revenge against A.G.
Trump meets with probation officer.
Repubs ‘salivating’ to ram corporate tax break.
Economy generates 272,000 jobs in May, unemployment edges up to 4%.
RNC's latest awful hirs: A Stop-the-Steal guy and a Christian nationalist.


ART CULLEN 
These people are’t serious about our most basic enterprise: Food

ALAN GUEBERT 
Words matter ... until they don’t


KELSEA McCLAIN 
It’s time to put Americans’ health decisions back in our own hands

JOHN YOUNG 
Ah, hah; Mueller probe found criminal act

DICK POLMAN 
Are Americans so depraved that they’ll put a convicted felon in power? 

JOE CONASON 
No, you’re not a ‘political prisoner’

DAVID McCALL
We’re here. And we’re strong. 

SETH SANDRONSKY 
How freelance journalists are moving from precarity to solidarity


ROBERT KUTTNER 
The support our public services briefly had — and still need

GENE NICHOL 
The Supreme Court’s war on democracy

SONALI KOLHATKAR
‘Tough-on-crime’ doesn’t apply to people like Donald Trump


THOM HARTMANN  
Why the GOP deploys the “Mudsill Theory” to destroy social mobility in America

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet  
No room at the inn 

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas  
Nursing homes: A conservative’s dilemma

SAM URETSKY 
Don’t take any lip from bulldogs

WAYNE O’LEARY 
Britannia hunkers down 

JOEL D. JOSEPH
Make the Justice Department truly independent 

JASON SIBERT
Defuse tensions with China 

JUAN COLE 
Trump’s attempt at planeticide was worse than hush money sex pay-off

KENT PATERSON  
Landslide elects Mexico’s first woman president

JAMIE STIEHM 
A grave moment in history

BARRY FRIEDMAN 
Mrs. Alito’s performance art, again

FRANK LINGO 
Anyone give a rat’s ass about Antarctica?

RALPH NADER 
‘No one is above the law’ — really Mr. Biden? 

PAMELA M. COVINGTON
Affordable child care helped my family out of deep poverty. Can we save it? 

JOHN CLAYTON 
In small towns, bookstores are thriving

ROB PATTERSON 
Taylor Swift is in a class of her own

ELWOOD WATSON 
After Trump conviction, Bragg becomes the target

FILM REVIEW/Ed Rampell 
‘Power’: Chronicling the history of policing


SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson  
My kingdom for a wife


AMY GOODMAN p. 
A Gaza twin’s desperate fight for survival

From The Progressive Populist, July 1-15, 2024


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