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COVER/Hal Crowther p. 1
Summer of our discontent
EDITORIAL p. 2
Berniecrats’ choice
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
The populist insurgency is ratcheting up.
Campaigns end on election day. Revolutions don’t.
Populism even Republicans can get behind.
The Disney-fication of our national parks
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Was Elie Weisel our last best thinker?
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Know what you eat, at home or on the road
DISPATCHES p. 5
Obamacare still not killing jobs;
US trade deficits up 8.7%;
Pope: capitalism is ‘terrorism against all of humanity’;
Trump’s ‘economic renewal’ starts with doubling down on fossil fuels, less regs;
Trump properties taking a beating;
Trump Taj Mahal to close after Labor Day;
Krugman warns 'no ight turn' for Clinton;
Right-wing provocateur O'Keefe flops in election fraud scam;
Nuclear plants lose money at astonishing rates;
Coal jobs decline with or without fed regs;
Sam Brownback’s loss in Kansas is everyone else’s gain;
Billionaire bonanza as wealth surges among 1%;
Fact checkers rebut Trump's 'pathetic' economic lies in real time
...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
The road to Trump wasn’t built in a day
PAIGE BLANKENBUEHLER p. 6
Advocates and adversaries duel over coal leasing reform
JILL RICHARDSON p. 6
Is solar energy really too expensive?
GENE LYONS p. 7
Will Donald last all the way to the election?
JOHN YOUNG p. 7
Democrats’ citizenship smackdown
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 7
Reducing US workplace violence
DANIEL DENVIR p. 8
Bernie’s big lesson
DAVID DAYEN p. 9
Trouble for the TPP
ROBERT BOROSAGE p. 9
Hillary Clinton and the choice
DAVE JOHNSON p. 10
A look at Clinton and Trump’s promises
SAM PIZZIGATI p. 10
For the wealthy, a taxing new worry
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Hillary to Donald: Game on!
DEAN BAKER p. 11
Clinton, Trump and budget-busting tax cuts
WILL DURST p. 11
Hillary Clinton, not insane
CHAUNCEY DEVEGA p. 12
Trump an avatar for GOP’s worst impulses
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 12
Killing the killer
AMANDA MARCOTTE p. 13
Trump’s religious hypocrisy
BOB BURNETT p. 13
5 Takeaways from the Democratic Convention
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
The continuing fight for the right to vote
CLAIRE RATER, CAROL SPIEGEL and JIM GOODMAN p. 14
Consumers can stop the overuse of antibiotics on factory farms
JOHN L. MICEK p. 14
Can Trump’s negativity win him Pennsylvania?
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
When facts meet rhetoric: The success of Obamacare
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Shared ignorance makes matters worse
MARK ANDERSON p. 15
Support your local beer
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Is there a Brexit in America’s future?
JOHN BUELL p. 16
Liar, liar, pants on fire
JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 16
Brexit, sschmexit
JUAN COLE p. 17
Pope and French Muslims try outreach instead of ‘war on terror’ polarization
MARK WEISBROT p. 17
Is Republican Party a legitimate political party?
JOE CONASON p. 18
Why America recoils from Trump
MARK SHIELDS p. 18
Another Iwo Jima memorial
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 18
Democrats, stay out of Trump’s gutter
RALPH NADER p. 19
Hillary’s convention con
TED RALL p. 19
Khan and the triumph of Democratic militarism
WENDELL POTTER p. 20
It’s way past time for us to stop deluding ourselves about private health insurers
ROB PATTERSON p. 20
Rock gets rolled
MOVIE REVIEW/Ed Rampell p. 21
The grips of wrath in search of dreck
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
The last dance: On heading to Olympic Rio
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
The Liberty Bell and the Democratic Party
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Voting like a woman
ROBERT B. REICH p. 23
The real reckoning
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
Oh to be an analyst
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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This page posted August 12, 2016