The Progressive POPULIST


A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland

April 1, 2017 -- Volume 23, Number 6


TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Amanda Marcotte p. 1
West Texas says no to wall

EDITORIAL p. 2
Beware Trump distractions

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
The chicken and the egg.
Wall Street plowboys.
WILL DURST p. 3
The fake news president
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 4
Wisconsin’s image has turned upside down

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Homeschoolers want fed check, no balance

DISPATCHES p. 5
‘Trumpcare’ plan would leave millions uninsured;
Trump’s way: always attack, attack, never apologize;
Recess actions spur health care accountability;
Trump’s disregard for truth;
Trump tosses more than 90 regs ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Democrats need straight talk on immigration
ALLEN BEST p. 6
A day and a long night on our Mexican border
DON ROLLINS p. 6
Putin’s aggression ringing alarm bells

GENE LYONS p. 7
Follow the money to uncover Trump’s ties to Russia
OLIVIA ALPERSTEIN p. 7
It’s only my health
JOHN YOUNG p. 7
The big faker and his big date with big data

MARK ANDERSON p. 8
The border game

JOHN KIRIAKOU p. 8
CBP demands ID to get off domestic flight

MAX B. SAWICKY p. 9
Is Trump a Populist?

BOB BURNETT p. 9
Coping with Trump stress disorder

ROBERT BOROSAGE p. 10
Don’t be fooled by Trump’s latest reality show
DAVE JOHNSON p. 10
Whoppers big and small in Trump’s speech
JOHN L. MICEK p. 10
Trump’s speech: The highs and the lows
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Separate and unequal: Trump order on trans students is repugnant
DEAN BAKER p. 11
More Republican handouts to the rich
SAM PIZZIGATI p. 11
Policing America’s plutocracy

THOM HARTMANN p. 12
Retaliation against protesters? This is not what democracy looks like.
SIMON MALOY p. 12
Trump’s anti-Populist budget
HEATHER DIGBY PARTON p. 13
Donald Trump wants to run the government as a business
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
Trump’s most shameful lie
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Sessions opens the door again to privatized prisons
LEO W. GERARD p. 14
Trading rules for workers
JILL RICHARDSON p. 14
Regulations can favor some businesses — and that’s fine
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Lunchtime for the president

SAM URETSKY p. 15
Billions for defense, not one cent for arts

ROSIE SORENSON p. 15
That’s a fact, Jack

WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Labor loses its way
JOHN BUELL p. 16
Trump and his corporate media accomplices

JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 16
Oh Canada! Get off our back!

JUAN COLE p. 17
Top 5 ways Obama is behind leaks, protests against Trump
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 17
Trump’s machismo vs. Sweden’s ‘Feminist Foreign Policy’
JOE CONASON p. 18
Is it Watergate yet?
DANA MILBANK p. 18
The most important word Trump didn’t say in his speech
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
How healthy are we the people:? A checkup
RALPH NADER p. 19
Restricting people’s use of their courts
TED RALL p. 19
Republicans may impeach Trump
BOOKS/Seth Sandronsky p. 19
Cooperators then and now

TERRY STULCE p. 20
The cowardly states of America

ROB PATTERSON p. 20
Bob Dylan finally gets some recognition

MOVIES/Ed Rampell p. 21
Life of a Salesman: Is this the enemy?

EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
The towering legacy of Ed Garvey
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
A double-transplant cancer survivor takes on Trump over Obamacare
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Speaking of Planned Parenthood
GARRISON KEILLOR p. 23
Trump is your old uncle with better lighting
MARC MUNROE DION p. 23
I’m an enemy of the people

Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen


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