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COVER/Austin Frerick p. 1
Fixing our food system — and reviving rural America — means breaking up big ag
EDITORIAL p. 2
Dems fight for the vote
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Corporations are playing with our food — and with our heads.
Push, push, push: How movements succeed.
WILL DURST p. 3
A plague of Dems
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Methodism revisited: No turning back
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Don’t Bern the Dems’ hopes
DISPATCHES p. 5
Trump budget reneges on promises to protect Social Security and Medicare;
Republicans reserve the right to bash Muslims, minorities;
Trump tells blackface joke at RNC fundraiser;
Trump tops 9,000 lies;
Rate of illegal crossings from Canada rising nearly as rapidly as US border with Mexico;
Sunday morning talk shows ignore Trump massage parlor scandal;
Trump asks UK to drop food and environmental standards for post-Brexit trade deal;
Household net worth falls by lagest amount since Great Recession ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Why Canadians rule the cannabis business
JIM VAN DER POL p. 6
Sustainable farms depend on soil health
JILL RICHARDSON p. 6
Starving kids won’t help them study
GENE LYONS p. 7
Forecasts of a civil war are greatly exaggerated
ART CULLEN p. 7
Julián Castro is resetting the Latino image in Iowa
NANETTE SENTERS p. 8
GM is closing my plant. What are politicians going to do about it?
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 9
Let’s fight for universal child care
JOHN YOUNG p. 9
What percent of Cohen’s testimony don’t you believe?
SARAH GERTLER p. 9
Criticizing Israel isn’t anti-semitic. Here’s what is.
ROBERT BOROSAGE p. 10
Democrats need to think big for 2020
LEO GERARD p. 10
Gritty trade war with China hurts American workers
SAM PIZZIGATI p. 10
Have the rich always laughed at stiff taxes?
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Cohen confronts the congressional patsy caucus
DEAN BAKER p. 11
To reduce inequality, let’s downsize the financial sector
BOB CESCA p. 12
Something is seriously wrong with Donald Trump: Let’s stop kidding ourselves about that
ALEX LAWSON p. 12
Medicare for All will lower prescription drug prices by taking on big pharma’s greed
HEATHER DIGBY PARTON p. 13
Trump’s ‘presidential harassment’ is just starting — and Republicans brought this on themselves
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
Be afraid of the president who refuses to lose
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Selma, the birthplace of modern democracy in America
BOB BURNETT p. 14
Costing the Green New Deal
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
How to slay the Medicare beast: A handy guide
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Millennials are changing the world, whether you like it or not
BARB KALBACH p. 15
Rural America needs Medicare for All now
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
The ‘S’ word
JOHN BUELL p. 16
Reclaiming the peace dividend
JUAN COLE p. 17
Israel lobbies Slam Ilhan Omar even as they try to bankrupt small leftist Arkansas paper over Israel boycott
N. GUNASEKARAN p. 17
Nuclear tensions increase after failed Trump-Kim summit
JOE CONASON p. 18
What was good for Clinton is good for Trump
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
Is there room for one more on Mount Rushmore?
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 18
Pelosi’s perverse PAYGO play
RALPH NADER p. 19
What are torts? They’re everywhere!
TED RALL p. 19
Trump’s foreign policy: Hated by pundits but popular with voters
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 20
Public pensions finance immigrant detention
ROB PATTERSON p. 20
Elvis Costello’s worn out genius
BOOK REVIEW/Heather Seggel p. 20
Who listens to the negro?
ED RAMPELL p. 21
Hollywood’s ‘other’ awards ceremony
SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 21
Trump fall down go boom
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Transphobia’s new target is the world of sports
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
The time for Medicare for All has finally arrived
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
In Trump’s America, kindness is an act of resistance
DANA MILBANK p. 23
Trump’s economic hoaxes just collided with reality
KARLA MOLINAR-ARVIZO p. 23
Worse than the wall
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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This page posted March 15, 2019