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COVER/Tom Levitt p. 1
We’re already seeing health effects of pesticides — just not where you’d expect
EDITORIAL p. 2
GOP continues war on sick poor
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
As we gape at Trump’s sideshow, corporations are picking our pockets.
Trumponomics: Batman ... or Dracula?
WILL DURST p. 3
Trump’s first pitch (or lack thereof)
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Wait, before you catch that ‘Bachelor’ rerun...
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Bees won’t be easily replaced
DISPATCHES p. 5
Grassroots organizeres help progressives win;
Trump to Republican Jews: Israel’s Netanyahu is ‘your prime minister’;
Trump’s cruelest immigration policies may be yet to come;
Trump’s tax scam still unpopular,with few seeing promised cut;
Trump administration says it could take 2 years to reunite migrant familes;
White House balks at complying with tax law;
High CO2 levels signal receding coasts:
Americans borrowed $800 bilion for health care;
DHS reassigns domestic terror analysts;
Trump labeling Iran's Revolutionary Guard 'terrorist' could imperil US forces;
Trump as passed 9,451 false/misleading claims
...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
The war against warming: Why we must fight
ADAM TURTLE and SUSANNE TURTLE p. 6
Locavores rejoice!
JOHN YOUNG p. 6
GOP’s morning-after headache is a doozy
GENE LYONS p. 7
Biden’s affectionate style can’t compete with the groper in chief
JILL RICHARDSON p. 7
The death penalty is getting crueler
ART CULLEN p. 7
No Democratic candidate has been able to figure out how to help farm country
LEO GERARD p. 8
Republicans on health care: Do vast harm
SALOMEH KEYHANI p. 9
For-profit health care industry tells us we can’t afford Medicare for All
DALY GRUEN p. 9
How we can bypass Mitch McConnell and the Republican-controlled Senate to get Medicare for All now
CHUCK COLLINS p. 10
A cure for excessive wealth disorder
JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 10
GM’s Lordstown plant should stay open
BOB BURNETT p. 10
Managing traumatic Trump disorder
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
What a hate crime looks like
DEAN BAKER p. 11
As US economy weakens, economists struggle to predict next recession
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 11
Gender pay gap resists closure
BOB CESCA p. 12
How far will Trump go to suppress the Mueller report? Probably all the way.
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 12
The ‘best economy’ ever isn’t working for working people
HEATHER DIGBY PARTON p. 13
New hints of the Mueller report: Did Trump simply get rolled by the Russians?
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
Trump Administration is willing to ignore corporate wrongdoing
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Donald Trump’s big lie about health care
JOSHUA ADAMS p. 14
We all practice ‘identity politics’
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 14
Let’s get ready to rumble
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Back to the future: Nursing homes unfettered
SAM URETSKY p. 15
They don’t make Demagogues like they used to
BOOK REVIEW/Heather Seggel p. 15
Flag overboard
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
The Benjamins flap
JOHN BUELL p. 16
‘Free’ markets and the attack on democracy
SAM PIZZIGATI p. 16
A ‘buyback’ for our future?
JUAN COLE p. 17
Did the Saudi hackers who trapped Khashoggi target Amazon’s Bezos for nude photos?
WILLIAM A. COLLINS p. 17
What I learned in Iran
JOE CONASON p. 18
We need the Mueller report, not Barr’s spin memo
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
The churn and burn of Trump’s cabinet
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 18
It’s a wide open race
RALPH NADER p. 19
Look how the real Trump is endangering America
TED RALL p. 19
I told you so: Only idiots believed in Russiagate
BARRY FRIEDMAN p. 20
The vote fraud game
ROB PATTERSON p. 20
Welcome bootleg: More blood, more tracks
FILM REVIEW/Ed Rampell p. 21
What makes Steve Bannon run?
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
The Trump Administration’s ableist cuts to the Special Olympics
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
End Harvard’s tacit endorsement of slavery
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
‘They’ are Americans
DANA MILBANK p. 23
Trump should come with a warning label
SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 23
Behind Barrs
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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This page posted April 13, 2019