The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland


June 15, 2016 -- Volume 22, Number 11


TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/David Cay Johnson p. 1
The art of the inside deal

EDITORIAL p. 2
The usual bedlam

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Introducing Glencore, rapacious global lord. What does it mean to gig American Workers?
WILL DURST p. 3
The ugly, ugly presidential campaign
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Farewell to Clark, Songwriter’s Songwriter

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Struggle past the nomination process

DISPATCHES p. 5
Outsourcing widens pay inequity;
Trump just kidding about $6M for vets;
TPP would worsen trade balances;
Va. Republicans sue to stop ex-felons from voting;
Journos: Time to press Trump on ex-wife’s rape allegation;
Supreme Court strikes down gerrymander;
Americans insured agains their will;
Fast food workers move on to union rights;
House R's can't resist gay bashing;
Obama's surprising poll support good for Dems ...

FROMA HARROP p. 6
What Team Sanders should do now
BEN LONG p. 6
Don’t mess with fishing access in Montana
JILL RICHARDSON p. 6
‘Bathroom bills’ don’t help women at all

GENE LYONS p. 7
What has happened to our election?
JOHN YOUNG p. 7
Ted, Mitch and Marco helped T-Rex emerge

ERIC BLUMBERG p. 7
Political theatre of the absurd

ERIC BOEHLERT p. 8
Donald Trump is a phony and a liar
HEATHER DIGBY PARTON p. 9
Trump’s bigoted base
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 9
The entente between Trump and GOP elite
ROBERT BOROSAGE p. 10
Test of leadership as Sanders rolls in Oregon
NANCY ALTMAN p. 10
Trump and Ryan agree: let’s dismantle SS
SEAN ILLING p. 10
GOP nihilism in the US Senate
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
What doesn’t Trump want you to know?
DEAN BAKER p. 11
Will deal turn Silicon Valley into Detroit?
RICHARD ESKOW p. 12
What’s killing the American middle class?

MICHAEL B. KEEGAN p. 12
A coalition of the unhinged
AMANDA MARCOTTE p. 13
Women aren’t people to Donald Trump
BOB BURNETT p. 13
Trump’s top 10 tax tricks

JESSE JACKSON p. 14
America must renew its infrastructure
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 14
Producing poverty

ROGER BYBEE p. 14
GOP bias behind Wisconsin voter suppression

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Recycling ourselves

SAM URETSKY p. 15
There’s no such thing as a safe gun

SIMON MALOY p. 15
Making America a threat again
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
The triumph of identity politics

JOHN BUELL p. 16
Exxon: A villain with plenty of company
JUAN COLE p. 17
Cameron’s tiff with Trump over Muslims
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 17
Obama’s Hiroshima visit can’t undo the past
MARCY WHEELER p. 17
NSA’s stunning 9/11 failure
ROBERT REICH p. 18
Why is the racial wealth gap widening?
DAVE JOHNSON p. 18
Why this new overtime rule is a big, big deal

MARK ANDERSON p. 18
Congress eyes trade deal warily

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Copp’s plea for you and me
TED RALL p. 19
Trump can easily win in November
BILL SCHER p. 19
Nothing populist about Trump’s campaign
EDWIN LYNGAR p. 20
Sorry, Bernie: I love you, but this is over
FR. DONNELL KIRCHNER p. 20
Sanders right when he went to the Vatican

ROSIE SORENSON p. 20
It’s all over but the Googling

MOVIES/Ed Rampell p. 21
Drink, drugs, sex, rock ’n’ roll and baseball

EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
The muted Olympic hype is deafening
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
A rising tide of climate resistance
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Dear Bernie bullies, I’m so over you
CHUCK COLLINS p. 23
A commencement address for the most indebted class ever

POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
Foreign friends view on Donald Trump

Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen


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