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Selections from the November 15, 2024 issue

COVER/Wren Opperman
and Molly Egan/The Daily Yonder
Alternative voices/alternative reality: How does talk radio affect Pennsylvania rural voters?

EDITORIAL
Time to crush Trumpism

JIM HIGHTOWER
Sordid story: Corporate executives get self-gratification from M&As | Holy Donald Trump! An Oklahoma Bibles story | To fight right-wing book bans, read banned books! | Isn’t it odd that public officials support corporate price gouging?

FRANK LINGO
Trump’s willing executioners

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

DON ROLLINS
Cussing comes to CNN

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Keep your eyes on the prize, voters

DISPATCHES
Conservative think tank finds Trump plans would wreck Social Security.
Trump and his allies try to rally early vote, while crying fraud.
Trump also wants to destroy American education system.
Central Park 5 Sue Trump for defamation.
Boeing union wins contract with 35% hike.
Harris edges Trump on economic positions.
Trump used D.C. hotel to enrich himself, fleeced taxpayers while president: probe ...


ART CULLEN
What do pork, quartz and saline solution have in common?

ALAN GUEBERT
Big mac bites big meat over alleged ‘artificially higher prices’


SONALI KOLHATKAR
Scapegoating immigrants hurts all of us — except elites

JOHN YOUNG
Down the stretch in a cloud of lies

CLAIRE CARLSON and LANE WENDELL FISCHER
Walz assails ag monopolies and touts healthcare policy in speech on rural plan

DICK POLMAN
The sultan of stupid strikes again! This time, he flunked the most basic mathematics

JOE CONASON
Trump, Musk and the hideous campaign of hate


A.J. SCHUMANN
Who’s reallyl a populist? Henry Wallace set the standard

LES LEOPOLD
135.9 million reasons why the working class is so angry

ELWOOD WATSON
Obama’s condescending message to Black men


ROBERT KUTTNER
How hurricanes are a profit center for insurers

THOM HARTMANN
No one has ever been as dangerous to America as Trump — it can happen here


SABRINA HAAKE
Oil billionaires, not taxpayers, should pay for climate destruction


THE BIG PICTURE/Glynn Wilson
Lilly Ledbetter of Alabama, champion of pay equality, dies at 86

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Cruelty cloaked in morality

SAM URETSKY
Be wary of covid ‘cures’

SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson
True grift

WAYNE O’LEARY
Crumbling wall of ivy

JOEL D. JOSEPH
Ten simple things you can do to reduce plastic pollution

SETH SANDRONSKY
Reviewing ‘Rez Ball’

JUAN COLE
Blinken and Austin scold Netanyahu over Gaza atrocities, playing cynical presidential politics

N. GUNASEKARAN
Taxing corporations for social, economic justice

LEW KINGSBURY
Lawsuit challenges restrictions on church political activities

JAMIE STIEHM
Waves and walls higher for Harris’ catwalk

BARRY FRIEDMAN
The Trump biopsy


RALPH NADER
Last clear chances for November


JONATHAN THOMPSON
Wyoming shoots itself in the foot

ROB PATTERSON
The family helps Willie Nelson keep going

RED SCHOMBURG
The tipped wage system is failing us. Removing taxes on tips won’t save it.

ED RAMPELL
When John and Yoko seized TV


AMY GOODMAN
Medical workers demand a ceasefire in Gaza

GENE NICHOL
A finale

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Featured in the Essays section are collections of articles and resources on Health Care, Social Security and Voting Security, among other topics. Also see our collection of resources on 9/11 and the aftermath of terror attacks on the United States.

We mainly cover current events, but in an effort to provide historic background, our Populist Reader offers texts such as the Preamble to the People's Party Platform, which formed the rhetorical underpinning for the Populist movement, the People's Party Platform of 1896, which represented the Populist demands at the peak of the agrarian/labor revolt, and more. And Mark Twain's "War Prayer," written in response to the Spanish-American War, is as relevant as ever.

Also featured in the Essays section is "Democratic Money: A Populist Perspective", with Lawrence Goodwyn, William Greider and Tom Schlesinger of the Southern Finance Project discussing the Populism of the 1890s and how those historical lessons relate to the prospects for financial reform today.

Also see reminiscences by two former Alabama journalists about the late George Wallace, the former Alabama governor who transformed American politics with his combination of racism and populism. Claude Duncan remembers the good George Wallace in "George Wallace Joins the Ghost Brigade", while Peggy Roberson reminds us of the bad George Wallace in "Remembering George Wallace"

We also offer Eugene J. McCarthy's remarks on his career in politics on the event of his 80th birthday, as well as his remembrances of Chicago as the Democrats returned to the scene of the crime in 1996 after 28 years. See James McCarty Yeager's remembrance of McCarthy, some notes on McCarthy by Sam Smith and a short film on McCarthy, "Sorry I was Right," at Free Speech TV. Also see a website devoted to McCarthy's legacy.

Another feature that we hope you will check out is Dan Yurman's Samizdat: Militia News from Idaho; Blood Oaths and Fish Stories Swim in Political Waters. This collects a series of dispatches, analysis and commentary by Yurman on militias, wise-use and white-supremacist movements in Idaho and the Rocky Mountain states. Please tell us what you think.

 

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A Few Good Weblogs
to keep you from getting your work done:

The American Prospect
Center for American Progress
Juan Cole's Informed Comment on Middle East politics, history and religion.
Common Dreams
Crooks and Liars
Daily Kos (Democratic politics)
Democratic Strategist journal of public opinion and political strategy by William Galston, Stan Greenberg and Ruy Teixeira.
Digby's Hullabaloo.
Eschaton by Atrios (politics)
Media Matters for America
Mother Jones
Charles P. Pierce's Politics blog at Esquire.
Progressive Review Undernews
Political Wire by Taegon Goddard
Raw Story
Poynter Media News (journalism scuttlebutt)
Salon
Greg Sargent's Plum Line at WashingtonPost.com.
Talking Points Memo by Josh Marshall
Talk Left, the politics of crime.
This Modern World, by Tom Tomorrow
Campaign for America's Future, progressive insights
Washington Monthly Political Animal
Washington Spectator
Economic Policy at WashingtonPost.com.

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From Canada
Globe and Mail of Toronto, for Canadian news and perspectives on its southern neighbor.
Toronto Star, a liberal Canadian newspaper.

From Britain
The Guardian, a liberal newspaper in London (formerly the Manchester Guardian). See also its US-oriented website, Guardian America.
The Independent, a liberal newspaper in London
Daily Mirror, liberal tabloid in London.
New Statesman, British Socialist weekly.
• BBC World News

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Al Ahram, English-language weekly based in Cairo, for Arab perspective on Mid-East
Dawn, of Karachi, centrist English-language Pakistan daily.
The Frontier Post of Peshawar, Pakistan, for news from the front lines of the war on terrorism in Afghanistan.
Haaretz, Israeli liberal daily with English language edition
International Herald Tribune, Paris-based daily operated by the New York Times.
Le Monde Diplomatique, English language monthly digest of the French daily newspaper.
Mail and Guardian, daily web edition of South African liberal weekly.
Mexico City News, the English language daily in our neighbor to the south.
South China Morning Post, independent Hong Kong and Pacific news (registration required).
Spiegel, English version of
German newsweekly.
Sydney Morning Herald, for news from Down Under.
Watching America, links to articles in foreign press about the USA, with translations of articles originally written for foreigners about the US. Updated daily.
World Press Review, a monthly magazine with analyses and English translations of articles in the international press, as well as an excellent directory of publications by nation, with ideological leanings.

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They say a picture is worth a thousand words; well, here are some good cartoon sites:

Jules Feiffer

Jeff Danziger

Mark Fiore

Forever Dada, an animated political cartoon created by California artists Louis Dunn & Steve Campbell.

This Modern World, by Tom Tomorrow. (And he has a pretty good links page.)

Ted Rall, our cartoonist/columnist.

Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling

Matt Wuerker

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See links to health care reform

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