The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland


July 1-15, 2017 -- Volume 23, Number 12

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COVER/Gary Legum p. 1
Trump family grift is getting worse

EDITORIAL p. 2
Bad bills rising

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
What is worse than being poor?
Where does inequality come from?
Will you enlist in Trump’s war?
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Liberals learning to redefine good news

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Raise hell to keep dreams alive

DISPATCHES p. 5
GOP to squeeze unpopular Obamacare repeal into budget reconciliation;
Cal takes step toward single-oayer health plan;
‘Infrastructure Week’ didn’t show much;
US refuses to endorse G7 statement on climate change;
Electric car sales doubled last year;
EPA chief way off about new coal jobs;
Trump has a record as a liar;
Trump says Qatar funds terror. Qataris wonder if Trump is mad they didn't fund him ...

FROMA HARROP p. 6
Trump’s lousy numbers spell doom
TED ZUKOSKI p. 6
Trump’s coal policy is bad news for taxpayers
LEO GERARD p. 6
Workers want a green economy, not a dirty environment

GENE LYONS p. 7
America gains nothing from climate change denials
JILL RICHARDSON p. 7
Saving America’s great places

KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 7
Time for Democrats to unite around Medicare for all
RICHARD ESKOW p. 8
The Republican party’s sickness of the soul

SISTER JOAN CHITTISTER p. 9
What it really means to be pro-life
JOHN YOUNG p. 9
Donald Trump vs. (most of) the planet

BEN LILLISTON p. 9
Trump’s revealing budget for rural America

ERIC BOEHLERT p. 10
Beyond a lie: White House uses misinformation as propaganda
BOB BURNETT p. 10
The four faces of Trump

SETH SANDRONSKY p. 10
Election to head CA’s Democratic Party is disputed
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
When bad cops migrate, expect trouble
DEAN BAKER p. 11
Trump voters need good economic policy, not empathy
AMANDA MARCOTTE p. 12
Climate change as culture war: Trump’s Paris pullout is a giant middle finger to the left
JOE ROMM p. 12
Trump’s reputation as a dealmaker is a sham, walking away from Paris proves it

HEATHER ‘DIGBY’ PARTON p. 13
Trump’s in way over his head with ignorant Qatar tweets
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
Why is Trump doing Putin’s bidding?
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Illinois strengthens the right to vote
WENONAH HAUTER p. 14
Trump’s water infrastructure plans in two words: higher rates

MARGIE BURNS p. 14
Foreclosures lead to flippers’ profits

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Congress flunks the Jimmy Kimmel test, or the deserving sick

SAM URETSKY p. 15
Evolving understanding of evolution

LEEANN HALL p. 15
Rural communities lose most with health repeal

WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Divvying up the loot

JOHN BUELL p. 16
Neoliberalism and deaths of despair

JUAN COLE p. 17
Trump’s ally: Saudi Arabia’s drive for hegemony in Middle East
NORMAN SOLOMON p. 17
Dangerous discourse: when progressives sound like demagogues

JOE CONASON p. 18
Why Trump must make Putin smile
DANA MILBANK p. 18
The most chilling line of Comey’s testimony
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
Comey rides in like a paragon of political virtue
RALPH NADER p. 19
End the greedy silence — enough already
TED RALL p. 19
Military spending is the biggest scam in American politics
JAMES A. HAUGHT p. 19
Americans abandoning mainline Protestantism
ART CULLEN p. 20
Burying Aldo Leopold
ROB PATTERSON p. 20
Who’s the next Dylan?

MOVIES/Ed Rampell p. 21
Bill Moyers and Tim Robbins: “We are the Jailhouse Nation of the World”

EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Frank Deford’s wicked grace
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
It would be a shame not to ask James Comey these questions about the FBI while he’s under oath
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Poor Eric Trump
GARRISON KEILLOR p. 23
What’s the big deal about Paris?
WILL DURST p. 23
Making America jurassic again

Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen


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