The Progressive POPULIST

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May 1, 2018 -- Volume 24, Number 8

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COVER/Igor Bobic and Daniel Marans p. 1
Trade war could cost the GOP at the ballot box
EDITORIAL p. 2
Trade war casualties; The bully’s pulpit

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
A regime of austerity versus the common good.
How long can the barons of high finance go?
WILL DURST p. 3
The rites of spring
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
How Trump gets to yes

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Help finally is at hand for harassed women
DISPATCHES p. 5
Steel tariff talk causes Korea to yield;
Trump’s store ducks sales taxes;
Impeachment is the latest GOP bogeyman;
Rs mull spending cuts to nibble deficit caused by billionaire tax cuts;
Govs balk at sending Guard to border;
FBI raid targets Trump's lawyer;
Rick Scott wants to take his bad ideas to Washington;
Scott Pruitt hasn't saved taxpayers anything;
Iowans gain right to buy worthless health insurance;

FROMA HARROP p. 6
Boycott Ingraham’s advertisers? What about all of Fox News?
LORENA WILLIAMS p. 6
Can the Forest Service reform its abusive culture?
ART CULLEN p. 6
The real soy worry

GENE LYONS p. 7
Real storm swirls around Trump’s new national security advisor
JILL RICHARDSON p. 7
Popular pro-gun argument doesn’t make sense
BOB BURNETT p. 7
Facebook, Trump and Russia

STEVEN ROSENFELD p. 8
2018’s Blue wave must be as big as what followed Nixon’s 1974 resignation to retake House
AMANDA TERKEL and IGOR BOBIC p. 9
Trump is governing like a traditional Republican
JOHN YOUNG p. 9
Second Amendment and fraudulent hucksters

KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 10
Don’t let big and dark money ‘drown out the truth and drown out your voice’
GENE NICHOL p. 10
In NC’s struggling regions, many ‘feel like they’ve had the hell kicked out of them’

JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 10
Why trade deficits matter

MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
The racial soul of America
DEAN BAKER p. 11
Why should the poor pay high drug prices?
JASON SIBERT p. 11
Cash is weaponized in public dialog

CHAUNCEY DEVEGA p. 12
The right can’t stand the Parkland activists
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 12
Posse Trumpitatus

HEATHER DIGBY PARTON p. 13
Circle tightens in the Russia probe: We know the president is under investigation
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
Dollars for decency
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
We must continually fight to carry on King’s work
WENONAH HAUTER p. 14
Martin County, Ky., facing a water crisis

SETH SANDRONSKY p. 14
‘I won’t keep calm I have a black son’

DOMENICA GHANEM p. 14
If you want to kill drug dealers, start with big pharma
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
‘Promises promises’: Right to try legislation

SAM URETSKY p. 15
Administration with no concern for the truth

BOOK REVIEW/Heather Seggel p. 15
Tracking the rebirth of white nationalism in America

WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Return of the wildcat

JOHN BUELL p. 16
Corporate trade treaties and the revenge of the deplorables

MARK ANDERSON p. 16
Conservatives see ‘liberal’ world order fraying

JUAN COLE p. 17
Is Saudi crown prince’s ‘recognition’ of Israel anything new or positive?
OLIVIA ALPERSTEIN p. 17
It’s on us to stop the war in Yemen
JOE CONASON p. 18
Don’t let Trump betray veterans
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 18
Martin Luther King Jr.’s most powerful insight about politics
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
The Memphis moment that shattered dreams
RALPH NADER p. 19
Stopping war pusher John Bolton, Trump’s choice for National ‘Insecurity’ Advisor
TED RALL p. 19
Next for the #NeverAgain Movement: Settle on a clear demand
FR. DONNELL KIRCHNER p. 20
When can one disobey the law?

ROB PATTERSON p. 20
Netflix series look at days gone by

SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 20
Lost in translation

ED RAMPELL p. 21
Interview: Gloria Allred talks #MeToo and ‘Seeing Allred’

EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
#BlackLivesMatter and the NBA collide in Sacramento
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Red for ed: The teachers’ red state revolt rolls on
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
50 Years of white what-ifs
DANA MILBANK p. 23
My foolproof plan to put President Trump in Amazon’s pocket
PETER CERTO p. 23
Get ready for Bush 2.0

Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen


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