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Selections from the December 1, 2024 issue

COVER/Molly Redden
Andy Kroll and Nick Surgey
‘Put them in trauma’: Inside a key MAGA leader’s plans for a new Trump agenda

EDITORIAL
What to expect from Trump 2.0

JIM HIGHTOWER
Can our elections be made even more vapid? Some are banking on it | Bezos bombs in his role as newspaper owner | The shame of TD Bank’s jolly bankers | CEOs show us how to raise everyone’s pay | Lilly Ledbetter fought the bastards — and won for all of us | Yes, the system is rigged against the working class

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

DON ROLLINS
Remember the poor

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Lessons from the election

DISPATCHES
Biden and Democrats are already fighting Trump’s second administration.
Unions say building worker power is only way to defeat Trump’s fascist right.
Progressive forces vow ‘unprecedented resistance’ to Trump 2.0.
Crypto’s $40 million defeat of pro-worker Sen. Sherrod Brown called ‘obscene.’
After $16 billion election, nonprofit tracking money in politics lays off 1/3 of staff.
Wall Street giddy over merger boom as Trump expected to fire Lina Khan.
US postal workers fight massive service cuts.
GOP prepares to shed rules to give Trump his radical cabinet.
Trump spokesperson affirms Day 1 plans for mass deportaton.

ART CULLEN
Waiting and wondering

ALAN GUEBERT
Buy more deck chairs or chart a different course

SARAH ANDERSON
State victories against inequality to celebrate despite bleak election day

JOHN YOUNG
The horse is right where I left it

SABRINA HAAKE
Trump didn’t win. Disinformation did. First Amendment law needs to catch up with weaponized social media

ELWOOD WATSON
What about Trump’s mental fitness?

GENE NICHOL
Getting back in the fight

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Mourn first, then organize

FRANK LINGO
80 Great songs from 80 years of rock ‘n’ roll


ROBERT KUTTNER
Tales from the crypt

THOM HARTMANN
The great dismatling: Trump’s coming attack on America’s economic backbone


SONALI KOLHATKAR
Trump and Musk are a match leading us to hell

THE BIG PICTURE/Glynn Wilson
Trump rocks the free world, stunning the American establishment again in apparent Electoral College win

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
A mini fine for an airline; a major victory for the disabled

SAM URETSKY
Getting Jeff Bezos’ attention

JOE CONASON
Meet Jack D. Ripper, the new health czar

WAYNE O’LEARY
The donors

LES LEOPOLD
Why did the Democrats lose? Because they gave up on the working class 40 years ago

JUAN COLE
Trump would be an ‘extinction-level event’ for the planet, turbocharging climate change

EGBERTO WILLIES
It isn’t Kamala Harris who failed. It is America that showed the world who we are.

JAMIE STIEHM
A long time comin’: On history’s clock

BARRY FRIEDMAN
Election night in America

SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson
The battle of the billionaire bros

RALPH NADER
Electing an American Fuhrer as Wall Street cheers and soars

WENDY KEEFOVER and KRISTIN COMBS
Grizzly 399 was a bear for the ages

ROB PATTERSON
Don’t fall for music snobbery

BOOK REVIEW/Seth Sandronsky
Reformation and liberation

FILM REVIEW/Ed Rampell
“Unstoppable” is an unbelievable, upbeat biopic


AMY GOODMAN
Hatred and racism: Trump’s ominous closing argument

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Featured in the Essays section are collections of articles and resources on Health Care, Social Security and Voting Security, among other topics. Also see our collection of resources on 9/11 and the aftermath of terror attacks on the United States.

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Also featured in the Essays section is "Democratic Money: A Populist Perspective", with Lawrence Goodwyn, William Greider and Tom Schlesinger of the Southern Finance Project discussing the Populism of the 1890s and how those historical lessons relate to the prospects for financial reform today.

Also see reminiscences by two former Alabama journalists about the late George Wallace, the former Alabama governor who transformed American politics with his combination of racism and populism. Claude Duncan remembers the good George Wallace in "George Wallace Joins the Ghost Brigade", while Peggy Roberson reminds us of the bad George Wallace in "Remembering George Wallace"

We also offer Eugene J. McCarthy's remarks on his career in politics on the event of his 80th birthday, as well as his remembrances of Chicago as the Democrats returned to the scene of the crime in 1996 after 28 years. See James McCarty Yeager's remembrance of McCarthy, some notes on McCarthy by Sam Smith and a short film on McCarthy, "Sorry I was Right," at Free Speech TV. Also see a website devoted to McCarthy's legacy.

Another feature that we hope you will check out is Dan Yurman's Samizdat: Militia News from Idaho; Blood Oaths and Fish Stories Swim in Political Waters. This collects a series of dispatches, analysis and commentary by Yurman on militias, wise-use and white-supremacist movements in Idaho and the Rocky Mountain states. Please tell us what you think.

 

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A Few Good Weblogs
to keep you from getting your work done:

The American Prospect
Center for American Progress
Juan Cole's Informed Comment on Middle East politics, history and religion.
Common Dreams
Crooks and Liars
Daily Kos (Democratic politics)
Democratic Strategist journal of public opinion and political strategy by William Galston, Stan Greenberg and Ruy Teixeira.
Digby's Hullabaloo.
Eschaton by Atrios (politics)
Media Matters for America
Mother Jones
Charles P. Pierce's Politics blog at Esquire.
Progressive Review Undernews
Political Wire by Taegon Goddard
Raw Story
Poynter Media News (journalism scuttlebutt)
Salon
Greg Sargent's Plum Line at WashingtonPost.com.
Talking Points Memo by Josh Marshall
Talk Left, the politics of crime.
This Modern World, by Tom Tomorrow
Campaign for America's Future, progressive insights
Washington Monthly Political Animal
Washington Spectator
Economic Policy at WashingtonPost.com.

For international news which the US media such as the Chicago Tredibune, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times and the Washington Post might not see fit to print:

From Canada
Globe and Mail of Toronto, for Canadian news and perspectives on its southern neighbor.
Toronto Star, a liberal Canadian newspaper.

From Britain
The Guardian, a liberal newspaper in London (formerly the Manchester Guardian). See also its US-oriented website, Guardian America.
The Independent, a liberal newspaper in London
Daily Mirror, liberal tabloid in London.
New Statesman, British Socialist weekly.
• BBC World News

From Elsewhere:
Al Ahram, English-language weekly based in Cairo, for Arab perspective on Mid-East
Dawn, of Karachi, centrist English-language Pakistan daily.
The Frontier Post of Peshawar, Pakistan, for news from the front lines of the war on terrorism in Afghanistan.
Haaretz, Israeli liberal daily with English language edition
International Herald Tribune, Paris-based daily operated by the New York Times.
Le Monde Diplomatique, English language monthly digest of the French daily newspaper.
Mail and Guardian, daily web edition of South African liberal weekly.
Mexico City News, the English language daily in our neighbor to the south.
South China Morning Post, independent Hong Kong and Pacific news (registration required).
Spiegel, English version of
German newsweekly.
Sydney Morning Herald, for news from Down Under.
Watching America, links to articles in foreign press about the USA, with translations of articles originally written for foreigners about the US. Updated daily.
World Press Review, a monthly magazine with analyses and English translations of articles in the international press, as well as an excellent directory of publications by nation, with ideological leanings.

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They say a picture is worth a thousand words; well, here are some good cartoon sites:

Jules Feiffer

Jeff Danziger

Mark Fiore

Forever Dada, an animated political cartoon created by California artists Louis Dunn & Steve Campbell.

This Modern World, by Tom Tomorrow. (And he has a pretty good links page.)

Ted Rall, our cartoonist/columnist.

Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling

Matt Wuerker

Also see our Links to Independent Media

See links to health care reform

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