Selections from the August 15, 2024 issue

 COVER/Eli Hager

School vouchers were supposed to save taxpayer money. Instead they blew a massive hole in Arizona’s budget. 

EDITORIAL
Kamala takes the torch

JIM HIGHTOWER 
Singing the Chick-fil-A child labor blues. 
What if a homeless person served on the Supreme Court? 
SCOTUS is meant to be a court, not our supreme ruler. 
Should corrupt judges be the ones redefining official corruption? 

FRANK LINGO 
Project 2025 imperils people and planet

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

DON ROLLINS 
Project 2025: Of Black dads and preschools

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Election shapes up as a battle of generations

DISPATCHES 
Border Patrol records fewest migrants since 2021 on southern border.
Student loan payments paused for millions amid court fight over relief plan.
RFK Jr. floated job in Trump White House as he weighed endorsing Trump.
Trump campaign plans post-election mayhem.
Report shows how lawmakers in GOP-dominated South harm workers.
Federal agency aims to protect workers from paycheck advance fees.
Project 2025 will affect every part of life, even weather updates ...

ART CULLEN 
Say a prayer that the Yanks are coming

ALAN GUEBERT
Your local USDA office may soon be your local federal courthouse

FARRAH HASSEN 
The solution to homelessness is housing

BRETT WILKINS
AFL-CIO: Trump agenda ‘catastrophic’

ROGER BYBEE and CAROLYN WINTER
Counter-RNC gathering shows breadth of diverse social movements

DICK POLMAN 
Thank you Joe! A next-generation ticket will take on a 78-year-old sociopathic convicted criminal

SARAH ANDERSON and NATALIA RENTA 
Billions in taxpayers subsidies shouldn’t be used for stock buybacks to enrich greedy investors

KAILI JOY GRAY 
Why you shouldn’t vote for Trump, according to J.D. Vance 

DAVID McCALL 
The looming plot against workers

SAM PIZZIGATI 
To best understand inequality, think class, not generation

ROBERT KUTTNER 
The elites pressing Biden to retire

GENE NICHOL 
A statute unparalleled

THOM HARTMANN  
The GOP’s secret agenda for America’s future

CLAIRE CARLSON  
The assassination attempt, a hillbilly’s elegy, and a world on fire 

SONALI KOLHATKAR  
Project 2025’s plan to gut Medicare and Medicaid

TIA SIMMONS 
It’s time for a child allowance, no strings attached 

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas  
Opioid settlement money: A drumbeat for outrage

SAM URETSKY 
Polls raise red flags

WAYNE O’LEARY
The gerontocracy saddles up again

JOEL D. JOSEPH 
Immunity and impunity

JASON SIBERT 
Arms control pros need to collaborate to reduce nuclear risk

GEORGIA JENSEN 
Libraries are cornerstones of our communities — and they need our help

JAMIE STIEHM 
America’s summer burn: Pride and rage

BARRY FRIEDMAN 
Niemöller

SETH SANDRONSKY 
California lawmakers eye rent price rigging, corporate landlords

RALPH NADER 
The dictatorial Trump court has put our democracy’s rule of law on quicksand

MARJORIE ‘SLIM’ WOODRUFF
Before you sleep on the ground, read this

ROB PATTERSON 
‘Hack’ the generational comedy gap

SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson  
Lonely at the top

FILM REVIEW/Ed Rampell 
Still advertising for himself: The Norman and the Dead

AMY GOODMAN 
At RNC in Milwaukee, Republicans unify ... against marginalized communities

From The Progressive Populist, August 15, 2024

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