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COVER/Uriel J. Garcia p. 1
Immigrating to the U.S. requires navigating a system both parties say is broken. Here’s why it’s so difficult.
EDITORIAL p. 2
The Devil goes down in Georgia
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
The contemptible thievery of gentrification.
Let’s send hearing aids to all right-wing officials.
Trucking industry wails about its labor shortage — here’s a solution.
Did you vote for six judicial elites to rule over you?
FRANK LINGO p. 3
World’s top influencer wants climate action
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
He gets us: Slick meets Sleaze
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Truth in war remains hard to ascertain
DISPATCHES p. 5
Trump classified documents case has turned into espionage case.
UAW expands strike against Stellantis.
Amid House speaker chaos, GOP confesses attack on Social Security, Medicare still top priority.
Turncoat Dem gave N.C. GOP supermajority in April, just got her reward.
House Republicans destroy party brand ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
‘The Golden Bachelor’: Fantasy or real?
ART CULLEN p. 6
Crazy talk
ALAN GUEBERT p. 6
Getting to ‘ves’ and other Farm Bill worries
GENE LYONS p. 7
The complicated equation of Israel and Palestine
AMY ADAMS p. 7
Try this in a small town
JOHN YOUNG p. 7
Eye for eye, extremism for extremism
DICK POLMAN p. 9
Trump is hereby gagged. Lots of his lies are OK (free speech), but he can’t trash talk his criminal trial.
JOE CONASON p. 9
The MAGA culture of menace is no surprise
GENE NICHOL p. 9
Trump and litmus tests
DAVID McCALL p. 10
Putting an end to divide and conquer
LES LEOPOLD p. 10
UAW wins fight for just transition
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Musk’s border tour leads to a lesson on educating migrant children
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 11
Global capitalists or national champions?
SONALI KOLHATKAR p. 12
How California’s fast-food workers won $20 an hour
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 12
How today’s turmoil is eliciting a wave of nostalgia for Pax Americana
THOM HARTMANN p. 13
How will America weather the historic times we face?
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
The corrosiveness of hate
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
The horrors in Gaza will only get worse
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 14
Nurses fight the power
SARAH ANDERSON p. 14
Let’s trash junk fees
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
The “Am I Dying” test, plus a few others for free-market enthusiasts
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Trouble at the neighborhood pharmacy
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 15
In California, a tale of two pharma bills
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
The centrist-corporative nexus in action
JULIE APPLEBY p. 16
Medicare enrollees can switch coverage now. Here’s what’s new and what to consider.
JUAN COLE p. 17
Israel’s revenge genocide in Gaza is only the latest in a long history of such massacres
TOM H. HASTINGS p. 17
First one to commit to nonviolence wins
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
In a cruel world, sweet memory
BARRY FRIEDMAN p. 18
A jury of my peers (part two)
JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 18
Inequality and lotteries
RALPH NADER p. 19
After the attack, Israeli rulers launch genocidal destruction
TED RALL p. 19
Israel should respond, not react
TED WILLIAMS p. 20
Are beavers always the answer? Not really
ROB PATTERSON p. 20
Hail, hail Chuck Berry!
PHYLLIS BENNIS p. 20
We need an immediate ceasefire in Gaza
ED RAMPELL p. 21
‘The American Buffalo’: An interview with Ken Burns
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
The NFL prays for Israel and ignores Palestine
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Ceasefire in Gaza now
BONNIE JEAN FELDKAMP p. 22
Why kids need help talking about their emotions
DANA MILBANK p. 23
Stonewall Jordan marches Republicans into the Wilderness
ALEXANDRA PETRI p. 23
This is why I hate elections, by Jim Jordan
SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 23
Kevin’s new job
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