Friday, October 11, 2024

Selections from the November 1, 2024 issue

 COVER/Hal Crowther p. 1

A state of shock in North Carolina

EDITORIAL p. 2
Climate changes; Trump still lies

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
To get good local news, try do-it-yourself journalism | Corporate bosses are working-class heroes! And other B.S. | School lunch, Christian nationalism and Jesus | What should politics do? Ask Woody Guthrie. 

FRANK LINGO p. 3
Will UN conferences finally get real? 

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4

DON ROLLINS p. 4
Kris Kristofferson: A sublime yearning

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
New voices needed in political coverage

DISPATCHES p. 5
How bad was Trump at handling disasters?
Conservatives struggle to see the bad in good jobs report.
Dockworkers suspend strike after winning tentative deal with 62% wage boost. They’ll continue talking about other issues.
UAW slams Trump-Vance as “menace to the working class.”
Trump lied about Haitian immigrants. Now he wants to deport them. 
Analysis: Trump tax plan would make rich people richer, poor people poorer ...


ART CULLEN p. 6
How do we talk to each other anymore?

ALAN GUEBERT p. 6
Tough 2024 gets tougher


ANNABELLE ORTIZ p. 7
There just aren’t enough services to prevent homelessness

JOHN YOUNG p. 7
OMG! The Venezuelans took over!

SARAH MELOTTE p. 8
Neighbor helping neighbor takes many forms in hurricane-hit Western N.C. 

DICK POLMAN p. 9
The climactic moment when Walz pierced Vance’s slick veneer and exposed his totalitarianism

JOE CONASON p. 9
MAGA’s Nazi infestation just got worse

DAVID McCALL p. 10
Opportunity for all

LES LEOPOLD p. 10
Wake up Democrats! Trump is eating your working-class lunch


ROBERT KUTTNER p. 11
The Justice Department challenges Visa’s predatory power

SARAH ANDERSON p. 11
Lawmakers target corporations paying executives more than Uncle Sam

THOM HARTMANN p. 12
Radio silence: How progressives lost the airwaves

SABRINA HAAKE p. 12
The intelligent conversation we aren’t having on immigration

SONALI KOLHATKAR p. 13
What we can learn from Gen Z workers


THE BIG PICTURE/Glynn Wilson p. 14
Vice presidential debate — J.D. Vance is a smooth liar, but Tim Walz nailed him on who won the 2020 election and Jan. 6

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Health insurance: On the electoral brink

MARTHA BURK p. 15
Meet the newest abortion rights supporters: Men in red states


WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
The great debate

ANNIE NORMAN and SHAWN SEBASTIAN p. 16
Postal Service plan writes off rural America to save a buck

JUAN COLE p. 17
The path to Nasrallah’s assassination

JASON SIBERT p. 17
The case for an Israeli-Palestinian confederation

JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
Election roundup: Painting the House blue, Harris in white

BARRY FRIEDMAN p. 18
Where did the fun go? 

SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 18
In this corner ...

RALPH NADER p. 19
Public radio, public media and local news deserts — our new report


ZAK PODMORE p. 20
Glen Canyon Dam faces deadpool 

ROB PATTERSON p. 20
Jon Voight’s thespian skills lift him above lunatic politics

SETH SANDRONSKY p. 20
Globalize this: Reviewing ‘Socialist Register 2024’

ED RAMPELL p. 21
Decolonizing Hispanic history onscreen


AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Israel cannot bomb its way to peace

GENE NICHOL p. 23
A simple reminder

From The Progressive Populist, November 1, 2024


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