The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
March 1, 2022 -- Volume 28, Number 4


TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Roger Bybee p. 1

Fake Republican ‘populism’ delivers for plutocrats

EDITORIAL p. 2

RNC embraces insurrection

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3

Plant-based beer and bug burgers: It’s what’s for dinner.

Habitat destruction.

FRANK LINGO p. 3

Bunny life in the yard

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4

LAURA FINLEY p. 4

The dangerous trend of the ‘parents rights’ movement

DON ROLLINS p. 4

The Ali Summit revisited

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5

Climate change requires adjustments

DISPATCHES p. 5

Supreme Court allows Alabama gerrymandering, further undermines Voting Rights Act.

Trumpers going after butterflies at the border.

Virginia Senate blocks Youngkin power plays.

Post-Dispatch: Sen. Hawley ‘unfit for office.’

Memphis activist gets 6 years in prison for checking voting status.

Data shows profiteering in food, energy ...

FROMA HARROP p. 6

Identity politics on the court must be subtle

ART CULLEN p. 6

Addressing lost opportunity, frustration in forgotten America

ALAN GUEBERT p. 6

Getting MAD, mutually assured digesters, is always a bad idea

GENE LYONS p. 7

‘Rooting out’ Glenn Youngkin’s hypocrisy

OLIVIA ALPERSTEIN p. 7

Banned books should be required reading

JOHN YOUNG p. 7

GOP’s irrevocable split with truth

STEVEN HARPER p. 8

Every day in Arizona is Jan. 6

ROBERT KUTTNER p. 9

The stock market bubble and the regulation paradox

JOE CONASON p. 9

Affirmative action isn’t only for Republicans

TOM CONWAY p. 10

Young workers rising

RICHARD D. WOLFF p. 10

US politicians paper over social problems caused by profit-driven capitalism

MARY SANCHEZ p. 11

The problem isn’t banned books, naughty words or wokeness. America is dumbing down.

DEAN BAKER p. 11

All workers should share the benefits of growth, raise the federal minimum wage

TRACEY L. ROGERS p. 11

This Black History Month, don’t ban our history — teach it

THOM HARTMANN p. 12

How the ‘moral panic’ of Critical Race Theory morphed into a book-banning frenzy

KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 12

The exit from the Ukraine crisis that’s hiding in plain sight

SONALI KOLHATKAR p. 13

Could CA actually pass single-payer health care?

ROBERT B. REICH p. 13

Want to know why Americans are gloomy about the ‘best’ economy since 1984?

JESSE JACKSON p. 14

The fight against restrictive voting laws

DR. CINTLI p. 14

Maya-Nahua philosophy banned in the USA again

GENE NICHOL p. 14

What is the Republican end game?

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15

Rest in peace: Goat gonads, et al

SAM URETSKY p. 15

Banning books is never a good look

DICK POLMAN p. 15

‘Ratings whore’ Jeff Zucker has quit. Good riddance. Trump was his original sin.

WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16

The winding road to fascim

ERIC BOEHLERT p. 16

Biden boom hits new heights — press buries the good news

JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 16

Bury power lines

JUAN COLE p. 17

How the Ukraine crisis is changing Biden’s Mideast policy: The rise and rise of Qatar

DAVID SCHMIDT p. 17

Progressives have more in common with censors of “Maus” than we think

CLARA MOORE p. 18

Why are we torching our best tool to end child poverty?

JAMIE STIEHM p. 18

Three women lighting the supreme darkness

BARRY FRIEDMAN p. 18

The ghosts on the walls

RALPH NADER p. 19

Morton Mintz turns 100 — investigative nemesis of corporate criminals

TED RALL p. 19

Clean our mess: Release Guantanamo detainees, close the camps

JOSEPH B. ATKINS p. 20

Very hip companies face unions and don’t like it

ROB PATTERSON p. 20

Talking about Cosby

SETH SANDRONSKY p. 20

California’s single-payer health care down but not out?

ED RAMPELL p. 21

Lunana of the North Snows: Learning life’s meaning of the world’s remotest school

EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21

Brian Flores levels a lawsuit against the NFL for discriminatory practices

AMY GOODMAN p. 22

The epidemic of book bannings must be read as a warning

BONNIE JEAN FELDKAMP p. 22

The making of a reader

DANA MILBANK p. 23

Newt Gingrich started us on the road to ruin. Now, he’s back to finish the job

SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 23

Mmmm-mmmm good!


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