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COVER/Daniel Ross p. 1
Factory farms pollute the environment and poison drinking water
EDITORIAL p. 2
Curb the deadbeat dictator
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Just say ‘no’ to the corporate bribe racket. A bountiful harvest takes work.
WILL DURST p. 3
Peaches the wall
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Kaepernick, Reid and the heritage
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
What happens when a hog lot moves in near you?
DISPATCHES p. 5
Trump approval tops 50% in only 17 states;
Trump presidency continues to devalue his brand;
Green New Deal doesn’t mention farting cows;
CNN hires Republican operative to head 2020 election coverage;
Drug seizures show empty promise of Trump border wall;
Supreme Court limits civil asset forfeiture;
Coast Guard officer accused of plotting murder of prominent Dems and media personalities;
US hints at military intervention after Venezuelans block 'aid'
NC cout attacks fruits of illegal gerrymandering;
Trump's shameless fli-fop on high=speed rail;
Didn't see the death of clouds coming
...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
The star-crossed romance between Amazon and New York City
JIM GOODMAN p. 6
The Green New Deal outlines the change society needs
ART CULLEN p. 6
Help wanted: Rural America needs immigrants
GENE LYONS p. 7
Power rankings give print pundits a ticket for the trivia train
JILL RICHARDSON p. 7
Take it from me: Addiction doesn’t start at the border
JOHN YOUNG p. 7
A border crisis sized to TV screens
CAMERON MACLEISH p. 8
I am a dumpster diver. Here’s what I learned.
JIM VAN DER POL p. 9
We need more people, and fewer factories, in farming
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 9
Bring on the Green New Deal vote
LEO GERARD p. 10
Standing together on trade with China
MILES MOGULESCU p. 10
Bezos confronts Pecker, but is still greedy
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Police suicide is the toll of unaddressed post-traumatic stress
DEAN BAKER p. 11
The key to cheap drugs: Pay research costs upfront
AMANDA MARCOTTE p. 12
Numb to corruption: How republicans trained their base to ignore Trump’s criminality
JASON SIBERT p. 12
Make arms control great again
HEATHER DIGBY PARTON p. 13
So much for the deep-state coup: Andrew McCabe told Congress he was investigating Trump
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
Trump wants socialism for the rich, harsh capitalism for the rest of us
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Trump’s fake national emergency
BOB BURNETT p. 14
Next steps
MARK ANDERSON p. 14
Spending bill saves sensitive areas from border wall
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
High class robbery
JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 15
Mexican pollution pours under border wall
SARAH SCHULZ p. 15
Immigrants aren’t the problem
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
They’re off and running
JOHN BUELL p. 16
Resetting the doomsday clock
JUAN COLE p. 17
Sleepwalking into our constitutional crisis in the age of Trump
MICHAEL FOX p. 17
The real reason Trump is pushing a coup in Venezuela: His own re-election
JOE CONASON p. 18
This Trump scandal is radioactive
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
A walking, talking, tweeting state of emergency
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 18
The winner? AIPAC!
RALPH NADER p. 19
The realized temptations of NPR and PBS
TED RALL p. 19
Trump is once again trying to ‘bomb toward peace’
FR. DONNELL KIRCHNER p. 20
Going over Trump’s wall might lead to better things
ROB PATTERSON p. 20
A soft focus on Quincy Jones
BOOK REVIEW/Heather Seggel p. 20
We won’t go back
ED RAMPELL p. 21
A super supernatural socialist show
SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 21
Punxsutawney Phil sees Trump’s shadow and cries
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Colin Kaepernick settles his collusion case with the NFL
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Green New Deal threatens congressional dinosaurs with extinction
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Grief, revisited and revised
DANA MILBANK p. 23
Trump’s emergency declaration showed why some people think him incapacitated
PAUL ARMENTANO p. 23
Marijuana can help fight opioid abuse
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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This page posted Feb. 28, 2019