Friday, December 13, 2024

Selections from the January 1-15, 2025 issue

 COVER/Molly Redden 

How Trump plans to seize the power of the purse from Congress

EDITORIAL 
Trump’s ne’er-do-wells

JIM HIGHTOWER
A kakistocracy takes over immigration policy | Can corporate profit and morality be compatible? | Trump’s plan to feed the greed of corporate elites | When and where was the first Thanksgiving feast?

FRANK LINGO 
Climate conference has conflicting conclusion

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

DON ROLLINS 
European journalists are gearing up against disinformation

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen 
Don’t give up. Organize locally

DISPATCHES 
Trump’s FBI pick threatens critic with lawsuit.
‘Budapest Memorandum,’ now largely forgotten, shaped Ukraine’s nightmare.
Trump has more kooky plans for America. Trump still wants to kill A.C.A., which could backfire.
Wanna work for Trump? There’s a loyalty test for that ...


ART CULLEN 
It all went up in smoke

ALAN GUEBERT
First order of business in Congress is unfinished business

JOE CONASON 
How Trump corrupted Pam Bondi

CHLOE MEDINA 
We need to invest in families. Project 2025 wants the opposite. 

JOHN YOUNG 
From a leader/builder to one who blows things up

PHIL GALEWITZ 
Nine states poised to end coverage for millions if Trump cuts Medicaid funding

DICK POLMAN 
I launched this political column 20 years ago. I’m ending it now. 

SARAH MELOTTE 
Lack of civic infrastructure drives rural health disparities

DAVID McCALL 
Bold rulings, better lives

SAM PIZZIGATI 
Our plutocrats have plenty of money to burn


ROBERT KUTTNER 
Does Trump have a coherent trade policy?

THOM HARTMANN 
The warning from Seoul: Democracy at risk in an age of authoritarian power


SABRINA HAAKE 
Gratitude or platitude? You decide. 

ROBERT B. REICH
Musk’s dangerous bullying


THE BIG PICTURE/Glynn Wilson 
Ignorance is bliss: The word of the year is brain rot

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas  
The glumness of Trump-world

SAM URETSKY 
What happens when the sick can’t afford their medication? 

JASON SIBERT 
Powers need to respect each other

WAYNE O’LEARY 
Of landslides and mandates


SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson  
Donald T and Mary C

JUAN COLE 
Syrians finally win the Arab Spring; now can they avoid the pitfalls and finally win democracy?

N. GUNASEKARAN 
Trump’s Asia policy 2.0 continues US-centric hegemony

JAMIE STIEHM 
Three Januarys: All ye need to know

BARRY FRIEDMAN 
What happened to abortion

TRACEY L. ROGERS 
Another whitewash election

RALPH NADER
Greater energy levels by GOP produce victories over Democrats

DAVE MARSTON 
Let’s scrap the stigma of mental illness

ROB PATTERSON 
Elvis is still everywhere

ED RAMPELL 
Intrepid exile Mohammad Rasoulof thwarts the theocracy


SETH SANDRONSKY
No peace, no justice

AMY GOODMAN 
Biden’s pardon power and the last federal pot prisoners


GENE NICHOL 
The Carolina two step

From The Progressive Populist, January 1-15, 2025


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