The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland


October 15, 2017 -- Volume 23, Number 18

TABLE OF CONTENTS


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COVER/Steven Rosenfeld p. 1
GOP plows ahead to hijack the vote and rig elections

EDITORIAL p. 2
Rs may boost Bernie’s single-payer bill

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
How to get a health care system for people, not just for corporate profit.
Populist victories won in this conservative Colorado town.
WILL DURST p. 3
How they spent their summer vacation.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Transportation key to getting out of poverty
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
No erosion among rural Trump supporters

DISPATCHES p. 5
Medicaid cuts could kill rural hospitals;
Repubs seek $1.5T tax cuts;
Puerto Rico desperate while Trump tweets about NFL, NBA;
Polls show voters reject GOP agenda;
Republicans persist with terrible Obamacare repeal bill;
Trump limits access to healthcare.gov during enrollment;
Dems flip GOP seats in OK & NH;
Solar industry braces for giant blow, as Trump gets tariffs;
Climate deniers cheer study that shows Trump policies will destroy America;
Flint had a lead crisis; now it has a fertility crisis
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Elite cities should share the wealth (and crowding) with others
FORREST WHITMAN p. 6
Border, immigration agents have too much power
ART CULLEN p. 6
What happened

GENE LYONS p. 7
Campus rape cases require due process
JILL RICHARDSON p. 7
Finding a common language on climate

JOHN YOUNG p. 7
Downgrading Hurricane Steve

ROBERT KUTTNER p. 8
How the Trump nightmare ends
BOB BURNETT p. 8
The aftermath of Hurricane Donald
SAM PIZZIGATI p. 9
New data on tax havens and income reveal America’s great divide
BOB LORD p. 9
Trump’s tax plan: A billion or three for guys like him

DEDRICK ASANTE-MUHAMMAD & CHUCK COLLINS p. 9
Racial inequality is hollowing out America’s middle class

ROBERT BOROSAGE p. 10
Donald Trump is just the latest Republican to stoke racial division
RICHARD ESKOW p. 10
Medicare for all can reshape the ‘art of the possible’

JASON SIBERT p. 10
People need their own representatives

MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
She sentenced a man to death, and now must live with it
DEAN BAKER p. 11
Janet Yellen and the Fed: Progressives should pay attention
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 11
California community colleges win against corporate reformers

HAL CROWTHER p. 12
Statuary offenses

HEATHER DIGBY PARTON p. 13
Hillary and the media: Dreadful coverage of 2016 had echoes of the past
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
The danger of dynastic wealth
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
The right to vote needs constitutional protection
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 14
The stark difference between Republicans and Democrats on health care couldn’t be clearer
MICHAEL BRUNE p. 14
Across the board, Trump’s deregulation hits the vulnerable hardest
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
A Scrooge-test: How much did it cost?

SAM URETSKY p. 15
Eternal vigilance is the price of affordable health care

WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Marble men

JOHN BUELL p. 16
Nature as actor

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 16
Let them eat chocolate cake

JUAN COLE p. 17
Trump blasts Iran for backing Syria, ignores Russia, praises Saudis
JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 17
Why President Trump should support single-payer health insurance
JOE CONASON p. 18
Why the media want Hillary to shut up
DANA MILBANK p. 18
No one listens to women when they speak around D.C.
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
Bittersweet goodbye to summer of 2017
RALPH NADER p. 19
Destructive stock buybacks—that you pay for
TED RALL p. 19
Want real political change? Hit the streets — and don’t promise to be non-violent
TED MORGAN p. 20
It’s 1967 all over again
ROB PATTERSON p. 20
Nobel Prize for stolen goods?

SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 20
You Had Me at ? ?? ???? ????.

MOVIES/Ed Rampell p. 21
‘Shot’ takes aim at gun violence

EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Seattle to Michael Bennett: We’ve got your back
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Anti-fascist heroines then and now
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
All is not forgiven, Sean Spicer
GARRISON KEILLOR p. 23
Beauty is truth and truth is factual
MARC DION p. 23
Have an American beer, you sap!

Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen


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