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COVER/Joseph Erbentraut p. 1
Farmers rethink support for Trump
EDITORIAL p. 2
Trump: evil or incompetent?
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Hallelujah, Trump rushes to aid needy bankers!
It’s time to put food policy back on the table.
WILL DURST p. 3
The Trumpish cabinet
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DONALD ROLLINS p. 4
Medicare ‘reform’ versus Populist tradition
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Profits in prison
DISPATCHES p. 5
California weighs single-payer health bill;
Trump truth found wanting at Florida rally;
Newt’s time bomb claims Obama’s regs;
Reality setting in on Obamacare;
Trump’s first-month travel expenses cost more than Obama’s annual costs ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Carbon tax a truly good idea
RAÚL M. GRIJALVA p. 6
People have power when they speak together
JILL RICHARDSON p. 6
American Hellscape
GENE LYONS p. 7
Flynn drama has all the intrigue of a Russian spy thriller
JOHN YOUNG p. 7
Subpoena Trump; Put him under oath
SARAH ANDERSON p. 7
To save Main Street, tax Wall Street
KENT PATERSON p. 8
Mexico’s stormy winter of 2017
RICHARD ESKOW p. 9
Steve Mnuchin is no Joe Kennedy and he’s unfit for his new gig
ERIC BOEHLERT p. 9
Michael Flynn scandal shatters GOP dream of protecting Trump in ‘alternative fact’ cocoon
HAL CROWTHER p. 10
An inoperable tumor
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Taking care of refugees is a moral duty
DEAN BAKER p. 11
The trouble with trade: People understand it
MARK WEISBROT p. 11
NAFTA has harmed Mexico a lot more than any wall could do
BOB CESCA p. 12
Republicans aren’t just spreading lies of widespread voter fraud to boost Trump’s ego.
Phony claims hold key to GOP hegemony
JAMIE STIEHM p. 12
The sisterhood stands against Trump
HEATHER DIGBY PARTON p. 13
As White House spirals into crisis, what will Congress do?
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
Trump’s war on the courts, press and states
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Civil rights will suffer under sessions
WENONAH HAUTER p. 14
Trump’s war on EPA
BOB BURNETT p. 14
Trump’s immigration policy leads to war
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Deflecting the Trumpercar
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Does intelligence have a future?
JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 15
Is Judge Neil Gorsuch a closet liberal?
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Jingoism as foreign policy
JOHN BUELL p. 16
Courts and Constitution as saviors?
LEO GERARD p. 16
Off-shorers should shut up
JUAN COLE p. 17
Questions about judgment: Trump appointed Flynn in the first place
DANA MILBANK p. 18
Here’s how you can deal with Trump
DOMENICA GHANEM p. 18
Get to know your Muslim neighbors
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 18
Rethinking infrastructure
RALPH NADER p. 19
Citizens getting justice done
TED RALL p. 19
How I’ll know it’s time to flee Trump’s America
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 20
Trump administration’s other war on media
ROSIE SORENSON p. 20
That’s a fact, Jack
ROB PATTERSON p. 20
Police stories
MOVIES/Ed Rampell p. 21
‘Do not resist’: the post-9/11 iron heel of the state
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Why Michael Bennett walked away from NFL’s Israel delegation
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Movements matter as Andrew Puzder and Michael Flynn are forced out
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
This is ‘the problem we all live with’
GARRISON KEILLOR p. 23
A very special man, an amazing occasion
MARC MUNROE DION p. 23
Donald Trump’s ghost dance
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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This page posted February 25, 2017