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COVER/Thom Hartmann p. 1
Republicans are coming for your Social Security and Medicare
EDITORIAL p. 2
Can truth catch the GOP?
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Front porch politics. What if we made voting fun?
WILL DURST p. 3
The midterm intervention
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
GENE NICHOL p. 4
The Kavanaugh ‘Victory’
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
You want Big Pigs across from your back yard?
DISPATCHES p. 5
Journalist murder apparently won’t sour Trump relations with Saudis.
GOP seeks to weaponize Central American immigrant threat.
GOP’s desperate strategy: Mimic Trump’s fear of immigrants.
Civil rights organizations ramp up election effort to protect voting rights.
Deficit due to GOP wars and tax cuts, not Social Security and Medicare, Dems say.
Trump pullout from arms treaty rankles Russians.
Two-thirds of Americans support legalizing marijuana.
Justice says Trump claim thast Obama had his 'wires tapped' was unfounded.
Global warming causes climate change
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FROMA HARROP p. 6
On Wall Street, Us R Toys
JONATHAN THOMPSON p. 6
Trump’s methane rule rollback burns the natural gas bridge
JOHN YOUNG p. 6
Hear no climate change; speak no climate change; see no climate change
GENE LYONS p. 7
That angry left-wing mob? They’re on the ballot.
JILL RICHARDSON p. 7
Voting matters, but staying engaged matters more
ART CULLEN p. 7
Dysfunctional display in Farm Bill standoff
JONATHAN COHN p. 9
Republicans will repeal Obamacare if they get the chance, Mitch McConnell says
JIM VAN DER POL p. 9
Commons vs. Capitalism
JIM GOODMAN p. 9
Do Republicans hate all protesters?
LEO GERARD p. 10
Americans want a manufacturing overhaul and they want it now
JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 10
Is the World Trade Organization unfair to the US?
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
GOP is writing off young women, and will suffer for it
DEAN BAKER p. 11
Amazon’s $15 an hour minimum wage and the Federal Reserve Board
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 11
Pressing concerns
AMANDA MARCOTTE p. 12
Gavin McInnes and the ‘Proud Boys’: Defending themselves, or spoiling for a fight?
DON ROLLINS p. 12
Holding Apple to account
HEATHER DIGBY PARTON p. 13
Now Mitch McConnell wants massive cuts to social programs after GOP blew up the deficit
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
The truth about the Trump economy
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Georgia’s gubernatorial race soiled by conflict of interest
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 14
Why isn’t the media covering climate change all day, every day?
BOB BURNETT p. 14
Global climate change comes home
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Gullible patients, gullible voters: The tale of ketamine
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Aging well can be expensive
JEFFERSON MORLEY p. 15
The Khashoggi affair won’t stop Trump’s drive for war with Iran
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
America’s conservative judiciary
JOHN BUELL p. 16
Democratizing the court — and the entire body politic
JUAN COLE p. 17
A US divorce from Saudi Arabia would be good for us and them
MEDEA BENJAMIN and MARY MILLER p. 17
Khashoggi is the tip of the bloody iceberg: 10 More reasons to cut the US-Saudi alliance
JOE CONASON p. 18
Khashoggi’s demise reveals unpleasant truths
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
Falling for a Saudi prince’s charming spell
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 18
Sears didn’t ‘die.’ Vulture capitalists killed it.
RALPH NADER p. 19
Let’s start a Kavanaugh watch to check all five corporate judges
TED RALL p. 19
Brett Kavanaugh and the politics of emotion shaming
SAM PIZZIGATI p. 20
Share the wealth? We can start now — here’s how
ROB PATTERSON p. 20
Growing up with Vietnam
SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 20
Bringing back the backlash (as if it ever went away)
MOVIE REVIEW/Ed Rampell p. 21
‘The Oath’ plays totalitarianism for laughs
BOOK REVIEW/Heather Seggel p. 21
Reckless: Kissinger and the Vietnam War
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
UMD football team comes together to kick a booster off a plane
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
The final sermon of St. Óscar Romero resonates today
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Don’t bother. They’re here.
DANA MILBANK p. 23
Trump learns: Live by the Dow, die by the Dow
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 23
California union nurses help with Hurricane Michael recovery
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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This page posted Oct. 26, 2018