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COVER/Harvey J. Kaye p. 1
GOP sees its own rendezvous with destiny
EDITORIAL p. 2
Investigate real election wrenchers
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
What is the Trump fix?
Why in the world would Trump tap Perry to be Energy Secretary?
A political party worth joining.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Will Paul Ryan be next in line?
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Green energy soars but ranchers’ ledgers bleed red
DISPATCHES p. 5
Trump companies owe more than $1.8B;
Report: Russian mobsters bailed out bankrupt Trump;
House GOP revives old rule to purge fed workers;
Trump calls Obama envoys home;
Warren: no confirmation without ethics;
Session could roll back drug legalization;
Trump is still lying;
Obama goes out with economy still growing;
Trump cedes millions of clean-energy jobs to China;
Global warming made every state red in 2016;
Plenty of questions about election results;
Cons will spend $10M to bully Dem sens to confirm Trump's court pick;
Discovered notes prove Nixon treason.
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Trump’s favorite targets are Republicans
BRIAN CALVERT p. 6
Slow and local is a way to fight back
JILL RICHARDSON p. 6
I’m not cheering the end of 2016
GENE LYONS p. 7
Are we out of touch with the ‘Real America’ or ‘Reality TV’ America?
DANA MILBANK p. 7
Trump opponents find an ally: Republican incompetence
DICK POLMAN p. 7
The latest lie from Trump’s alt-reality
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 8
Three steps for progressive resistance and rebuilding as Trump era launches
DAVE JOHNSON p. 9
Trump nominates non-free-trader Robert Lighthizer to trade office
CHUCK COLLINS p. 9
The dangers of big philanthropy
JOSH HOXIE p. 9
Reducing inequality in the Trump era
SEAN MCELWEE p. 10
Hope for 2017: Six policy ideas that can lay the groundwork for a more progressive America
BOB BURNETT p. 10
Five Resistance resolutions
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Anti-immigrant bias costs America plenty
ROBERT B. REICH p. 11
Obama’s last stands
DEAN BAKER p. 11
What does Donald Trump actually intend to do about trade?
ANGELO YOUNG p. 12
Taxpayer-funded capitalism
JAMES A. HAUGHT p. 12
White Evangelicals are fading, powerful, baffling
HEATHER DIGBY PARTON p. 13
Does impeachment begin now?
SAM PIZZIGATI p. 13
Waging class war in comfort
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
As Obama departs, we owe him our thanks
AMANDA MARCOTTE p. 14
Fake news for the great leader
JOHN KIRIAKOU p. 14
I’m not optimistic about the next four years
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Needed: A stake to kill the vampire-myths
SIMON MALOY p. 15
No one likes ‘repeal and delay’
JOHN YOUNG p. 15
Trump will make it up as he goes along
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Hamilton’s curse
JOHN BUELL p. 16
Fake news and the new McCarthyism
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 16
Can New York teach us all a lesson?
JUAN COLE p. 17
Preparing for the normalization of a neofascist White House
N. GUNASEKARAN p. 17
Trumps ‘America first’ policies will hit Asia
JOE CONASON p. 18
Donald Trump’s death panel
BOOKS/Seth Sandronsky p. 18
Citizen Governance Rising
BOOKS/Heather Seggel p. 18
Survival guides for the resistance
RALPH NADER p. 19
Tripwires for Trumpsters
TED RALL p. 19
Please stop the fear and loathing of 2017
RANDOLPH T. HOLHUT p. 20
Farewell, Joe Shea, online news pioneer and defender of the First Amendment
ROB PATTERSON p. 20
Following British Procedurals
ROSIE SORENSON p. 20
?? ??? ??????? ?????? (We’re all Russian now)
MOVIES/Ed Rampell p. 21
Poetry in motion: Neruda
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Why Jack Johnson’s family should refuse an exoneration
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Obama, deporter in chief, should pardon the undocumented
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
We are not the enemy
GARRISON KEILLOR p. 23
Here comes Mr. Marble
WILL DURST p. 23
Good riddance to bad rubbish
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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This page posted January 12, 2016