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Selections from the February 1, 2025 issue

 COVER/Hal Crowther

Goodbye to all that: From Carter to the crater

EDITORIAL
The Big Lie Party takes over

JIM HIGHTOWER 
Jimmy Carter’s light exposes Donald Trump’s darkness | Daddy’s philosophy | The unholy messiah of corporate rule | Making work work for workers | Greed is immoral. Health care greed is abombinable. | why should we allow food monopolies? Let’s bust the system!

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

DON ROLLINS 
From Jackson to Trump: It’s all about land

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen 
Slammin’ 2025 — An epic look forward

DISPATCHES 
‘Republicans are geating up for class war,’ Dem warns, as R’s push for Medicaid cuts.
L.A. renter advocates demand eviction moratorium, rent freeze as landowners ‘cash in.’
Trump allies launch $20M effort to convice working class to back tax scam 2.0.
State-level attacks on public schools decried as ‘part of a national playbook.’
Biden bequeaths strong economy for Trump ...


ART CULLEN
Time to make some noise about cancer in Iowa

ALAN GUEBERT
Sustainable aviation fuel study: SAF means ‘Sacrificing Affordable Food’


FARRAH HASSEN
Sweeps don’t solve homelessness

JOHN YOUNG
Fear new year? Time to summon your inner Molly

SABRINA HAAKE
Using the NOLA tragedy to hide Trump’s bait and switch on immigration

DICK POLMAN
Trump’s mob runs wild. Why is anyone shocked? 

JOE CONASON
Did Musk abuse Visa program? 

SARAH ANDERSON and CHRIS MILLS RODRIGO 
10 Wins against inequality to celebrate in 2024


ROBERT KUTTNER 
Memo to term appointees: Stay put!

SETH SANDRONSKY 
An emerging US health care politics? 

THOM HARTMANN
America needs a national health care system


SONALI KOLHATKAR
What is our collective solution to health care injustice? 


THE BIG PICTURE/Glynn Wilson
Project 2025: Will American democracy survive Trump’s second term? 

GENE NICHOL
Thinking about North Carolina

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas  
The sad news of January: Scrooge lives on and on

SAM URETSKY 
Wondering about wonder drugs

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet  
America first imperialism

WAYNE O’LEARY
Mr. Roosevelt gives a speech

RICHARD D. WOLFF
Political economy contradictions as we lurch into 2025 

JUAN COLE 
The worst news from 2024: CO2 went up again, as tundra starts to emit carbon

JASON SIBERT
Summit of the Americans can spread democracy instead of war

JOEL D. JOSEPH 
Forget Greenland, the Panama Canal and Canada — Trump should invite Taiwan to become a U.S. territory

JAMIE STIEHM 
Pardons turn the truth around — then and now

BARRY FRIEDMAN 
Roeder and Mangione

ERIC S. JACKSON
Mocking the disabled is cruel and immoral — especially when the president does it

RALPH NADER 
We need anticipatory strategies for oncoming Trumpism

FRANK LINGO
The truth tastes good

TIM LYDON
Savoring the darkness in Alaska

ROB PATTERSON 
Keeping music in the families 

BOOK REVIEW/Ken Winkes 
Go back in time with Studs

FILM REVIEW/Ed Rampell 
From Minnesota to Manhattan to Newport: Biopic about balladeer Bob Dylan’s odyssey is positively electrifying 


AMY GOODMAN 
Wicked, The Wizard of Oz, and the blacklisted lyricist Yip Harburg


SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson  
Let freedom ring. Or maybe not.

From The Progressive Populist, February 1, 2025


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