The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland


September 15, 2016 -- Volume 22, Number 16


TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Eric Boehlert p. 1
Clinton emails - the new Whitewater?

EDITORIAL p. 2
Private insurance fails Obamacare test
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Rampaging debt collectors committing highway robbery. Donnie’s little lies are huuuuuge.
BETH PORTER p. 3
Waste not, save more
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Big league baseball chasing down its ghosts
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Women, play your card smart
DISPATCHES p. 5
Miser Trump demands Clintons shut down charity;
Working Families Party endorses Clinton;
Maternity deaths double in Texas after health budget cuts;
Jill Stein: neither Trump nor Clinton is fit to be president
Green VP nominee: Obama is 'Uncle Tom';
Gore: 'If you care about climate change, don't vote for third party;
Majority of economists favor Clinton on economy;
Trump's business a maze of debts and opaque ties
Dems hope to regain Senate, but need a wave to take back the House;
Trump caught lying 30 times in deposition;
US Army fudged accounts by trillions of dollars, auditor finds ...

FROMA HARROP p. 6
Commoners’ right to hunt under threat
ED MARSTON p. 6
An electric-power giant is poised to fall
JILL RICHARDSON p. 6
The miserable catch 22 of mental illness

GENE LYONS p. 7
Is comrade Trump playing us for fools?
JOHN YOUNG p. 7
Trump enlists the trigger-finger fringe

MARK ANDERSON p. 7
Sign points to Clinton flexibility on TPP

ROBERT BOROSAGE p. 8
The economic debate and the failed consensus
HEATHER DIGBY PARTON p. 9
The danger of the right’s noise machine
BOB BURNETT p. 9
Trump’s missing money

ROSIE SORENSEN p. 9
Something there is that doesn’t love Trump’s wall

DAVE JOHNSON p. 10
Help stop the payday loan debt-trap scam
SAM PIZZIGATI p. 10
Extracting a cold corporate truth

MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Low-wage workers want respect, regular shifts and better wages
DEAN BAKER p. 11
Trade, truth and Trump
ERIC BLUMBERG p. 11
Memo to Trump’s spiritual adviser: You’re fired

DAVID DAYEN p. 12
Sorry you lost your home
SIMON MALOY p. 12
Trump retreating into the bubble
AMANDA MARCOTTE p. 13
Trying to make American male again
GARY LEGUM p. 13
No, Hillary won’t have a mandate
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
The shame of Milwaukee
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 14
The phony populism of Donald Trump
DARYL CAGLE p. 14
Trump, Hitler and the worst editorial cartoons ever
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
The fiscal upside of compassion

SAM URETSKY p. 15
We can do big things, but it will cost us

WILL DURST p. 15
Bizarre similarities between Trump and Clinton
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Dystopia on the Potomac
JOHN BUELL p. 16
Exxon’s lies and a word from the Pope

JUAN COLE p. 17
Brexit, sschmexit
JOSHUA ZAFFOS p. 17
Fracking ballot initiatives may make Colorado a major political battleground
JOE CONASON p. 18
Why is Assange pushing Trump’s conspiracies?
KATHY KIELY p. 18
The making of Donald Trump, as told by a journalistic nemesis
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 18
Patchwork of state laws for new, expecting parents in labor force, study says

RALPH NADER p. 19
Congress: AWOL and out of control
TED RALL p. 19
Corporations abusing anti-SLAPP laws to screw workers
ROGER BYBEE p. 20
Socialist moment has come again

MOVIE REVIEW/Ed Rampell p. 20
Florence of the Trachea: Go with the Flo

ROB PATTERSON p. 21
‘Night’ unfolds

EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Teachers and students occupy schools in the shadow of Olympic Rio
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Donald Trump’s implied assassination threat, Fox News and the NRA
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Trump speaks, children listen
ROBERT B. REICH p. 23
Once elected, Hillary must tap the power of Bernie’s progressive movement
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
My feelings toward Donald Trump

Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen


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