The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland


August 15, 2017 -- Volume 23, Number 14

TABLE OF CONTENTS


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COVER/Jefferson Morley p. 1
A cornered Trump is more dangerous

EDITORIAL p. 2
Stop GOP genocide

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
The partisan use of preemption is surging.
Should we entrust our schoolchildren to corporate profiteers?
WILL DURST p. 3
Fake sons
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Coming to terms with Big Religion

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Woe be to WOTUS if POTUS has his way

DISPATCHES p. 5
Dems seek to reclaim populist mantle;
Dems continue to flip statehouse seats;
Republican congressmen seek revenge on CBO for Trumpcare report;
South Texas border wall will ‘essentially destroy’ Rio Grande wildlife refuge;
First Amendment faces bipartisan assault;
Medicaid expansion had huge impact on finances of poor;
Energy efficiency is a huge money saver -- but Trump is against it;
Trump warning to Mueller proves, again, it's all about the money;
Trump's new judge compared abortion to slavery ...

FROMA HARROP p. 6
America’s dumb war against trade
STEPHANIE MALIN p. 6
Rural Utah could pay a high price for uranium
ART CULLEN p. 6
Heir to Ignoramus

GENE LYONS p. 7
Trump White House is bad reality TV
JILL RICHARDSON p. 7
Is this how the world sees America now?

JOHN YOUNG p. 7
The gang that couldn’t lie straight

LEO GERARD p. 8
Republicans working against workers

STEVEN ROSENFELD p. 9
Trump has a who’s who of vote suppressors
BOB BURNETT p. 9
The resistance bookshelf

RICHARD ESKOW p. 10
Medicare for all is coming, no matter what they say
LEEANN HALL p. 10
The health care fight is far from over
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Latino rights group’s name change reflects new reality
DEAN BAKER p. 11
The Federal Reserve Board: The best weapon against discrimination?
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 11
Take back the narrative

BOB CESCA p. 12
How long till leading Republicans turn on Trump? It’s happening already.
JOHN J. O’GRADY p. 12
Get ready for a smoggier, dirtier, less healthy America - thanks to Trump’s foolhardy evisceration of the EPA
HEATHER DIGBY PARTON p. 13
Trumpcare is dead, at least for now
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
The Trump standard
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
There is no market for Trump’s values
GENE NICHOL p. 14
Trump targets Peace Corps

JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 14
Endgame: How President Trump will go down

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Loving the land of make believe

SAM URETSKY p. 15
AIDS advisors quit Trump administration

GEOFF COVENTRY p. 15
There’s no ‘free market’ solution to health care
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
The worst administration of all time?

JOHN BUELL p. 16
Trump, North Korea and historical amnesia

JESSICAH PIERRE p. 16
Republicans are right: Going to college hurts
JUAN COLE p. 17
Did UAE plant fake news about Qatar to fool Trump?
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 17
Time for sober realism on the US-Russia relationship
JOE CONASON p. 18
Why Trump Jr. should release more emails
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
The Tea Party takes the cake
DANA MILBANK p. 18
Sean Spicer won’t be last Trump casualty.
RALPH NADER p. 19
Clarion call for our country’s pillars to demand justice
TED RALL p. 19
How I learned the courts are off-limits to 99%
SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 20
Son of a gun

SETH SANDRONSKY p. 20
California’s capital then and now
ROB PATTERSON p. 20
There’s plenty of real news on the web, too

MOVIES/Ed Rampell p. 21
New documentary goes beneath the waves to see coral bleaching crisis

EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Johnny Manziel: The NFL owners’ ‘good boy’
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Donald Trump’s climate change denial ignites grass-roots resistance
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Guiding children in the age of Trump
GARRISON KEILLOR p. 23
Extinction is all around us
PETER CERTO p. 23
Trump’s worst collusion isn’t with Russia, it’s with corporations

Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen


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