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Selections from the November 15, 2024 issue

 COVER/Wren Opperman

and Molly Egan/The Daily Yonder
Alternative voices/alternative reality: How does talk radio affect Pennsylvania rural voters? 

EDITORIAL
Time to crush Trumpism

JIM HIGHTOWER
Sordid story: Corporate executives get self-gratification from M&As | Holy Donald Trump! An Oklahoma Bibles story | To fight right-wing book bans, read banned books! | Isn’t it odd that public officials support corporate price gouging?  

FRANK LINGO 
Trump’s willing executioners 

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

DON ROLLINS 
Cussing comes to CNN

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen 
Keep your eyes on the prize, voters

DISPATCHES 
Conservative think tank finds Trump plans would wreck Social Security.
Trump and his allies try to rally early vote, while crying fraud.
Trump also wants to destroy American education system.
Central Park 5 Sue Trump for defamation.
Boeing union wins contract with 35% hike.
Harris edges Trump on economic positions.
Trump used D.C. hotel to enrich himself, fleeced taxpayers while president: probe ...


ART CULLEN
What do pork, quartz and saline solution have in common? 

ALAN GUEBERT 
Big mac bites big meat over alleged ‘artificially higher prices’


SONALI KOLHATKAR
Scapegoating immigrants hurts all of us — except elites

JOHN YOUNG 
Down the stretch in a cloud of lies

CLAIRE CARLSON and LANE WENDELL FISCHER
Walz assails ag monopolies and touts healthcare policy in speech on rural plan 

DICK POLMAN 
The sultan of stupid strikes again! This time, he flunked the most basic mathematics

JOE CONASON 
Trump, Musk and the hideous campaign of hate


A.J. SCHUMANN 
Who’s reallyl a populist? Henry Wallace set the standard

LES LEOPOLD 
135.9 million reasons why the working class is so angry

ELWOOD WATSON 
Obama’s condescending message to Black men


ROBERT KUTTNER 
How hurricanes are a profit center for insurers

THOM HARTMANN  
No one has ever been as dangerous to America as Trump — it can happen here


SABRINA HAAKE 
Oil billionaires, not taxpayers, should pay for climate destruction


THE BIG PICTURE/Glynn Wilson 
Lilly Ledbetter of Alabama, champion of pay equality, dies at 86

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas  
Cruelty cloaked in morality

SAM URETSKY 
Be wary of covid ‘cures’

SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson
True grift

WAYNE O’LEARY
Crumbling wall of ivy

JOEL D. JOSEPH 
Ten simple things you can do to reduce plastic pollution

SETH SANDRONSKY 
Reviewing ‘Rez Ball’

JUAN COLE 
Blinken and Austin scold Netanyahu over Gaza atrocities, playing cynical presidential politics

N. GUNASEKARAN 
Taxing corporations for social, economic justice

LEW KINGSBURY 
Lawsuit challenges restrictions on church political activities

JAMIE STIEHM 
Waves and walls higher for Harris’ catwalk

BARRY FRIEDMAN 
The Trump biopsy


RALPH NADER
Last clear chances for November


JONATHAN THOMPSON 
Wyoming shoots itself in the foot

ROB PATTERSON 
The family helps Willie Nelson keep going

RED SCHOMBURG
The tipped wage system is failing us. Removing taxes on tips won’t save it. 

ED RAMPELL 
When John and Yoko seized TV


AMY GOODMAN 
Medical workers demand a ceasefire in Gaza

GENE NICHOL 
A finale

From The Progressive Populist, November 15, 2024


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