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COVER/Paul Rosenberg p. 1
Trump’s tax cuts revive ‘Voodoo Economics’
EDITORIAL p. 2
Trumpcare: the lies have it
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Populism is not about mobs, anti-government rants or opinion polls.
How to keep ‘public’ and ‘service’ in our public postal service.
WILL DURST p. 3
Report card on Trump’s first 100 days
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
One church’s struggle with white supremacy
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Trump manages to unite progressives
DISPATCHES p. 5
After Medicaid, they’re coming for Medicare and Social Security;
McConnell names Senate ‘death panel’;
Trumpcare threatens vets’ health care;
Trump's DoJ cites segregation argument in federal appeal;
Woman faces prison for laughing at Sessions regrets nothing;
FCC chair starts probe of Stephen Colbert’s bleeped joke;
Offshore wind farm shutters island's diesel power plant
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FROMA HARROP p. 6
Can we think our way past robots?
AUDEN SCHENDLER p. 6
People power can still make democracy work
ART CULLEN p. 6
Trump is reminded by NAFTA who elected him
GENE LYONS p. 7
For Dems, Obama’s Wall St. payday sends wrong signal
JILL RICHARDSON p. 7
Running the country not like running a business
BOB BURNETT p. 7
Berkeley gets trolled
DAVE JOHNSON p. 8
Tax cuts defund things that boost the economy
LEO GERARD p. 9
Another GOP tax plan for captains of industry
JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 9
Tax reform should not allow corporations to pay a lower tax than individuals, except manufacturers
JASON SIBERT p. 10
Trump puts power in the hands of polluters
RICHARD ESKOW p. 10
How many will die for rich Americans’ tax cut under Trumpcare bill?
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Cops as immigration agents? A bad — and likely expensive — idea
DEAN BAKER p. 11
Donald Trump fails on currency with China, but wins on daughter’s trademarks
JOSH HOXIE p. 11
Fighting an unfair system
ISAIAH J. POOLE p. 12
Progressive caucus budget turns resistance into policy, rebukes Trump
CHUCK JONES p. 12
How Trump could actually stop offshoring
JAMES A. HAUGHT p. 12
Mobilizing progressive resistance
HEATHER ‘DIGBY’ PARTON p. 13
Lessons in history from Donald Trump
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
Authoritarianism: Trump’s governing philosophy
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Trump’s damaging start
WENONAH HAUTER p. 14
Our lives depend on stopping dirty energy. Here’s how we’ll do it.
JOHN YOUNG p. 14
Here come the clowns with ‘tax reform’ balloons
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Medicaid-speak: Words as bullets
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Trump voters might yet blink
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 15
What we can learn from our ‘radical’ past
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Ending corporate taxation
JOHN BUELL p. 16
Rural consciousness and Democratic politics
JIM GOODMAN p. 16
NAFTA needs to be replaced, not renegotiated
JUAN COLE p. 17
Trump’s real sin in DC is not distinguishing between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ dictators
MARK WEISBROT p. 17
Venezuela and the OAS: the logic of withdrawal
JOE CONASON p. 18
The grifters do ‘tax reform’
DANA MILBANK p. 18
Airlines abuse passengers, and Washington weighs a crackdown — on passengers
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
Trump and American history: The wrong north star
RALPH NADER p. 19
Trump’s hundred days of rage and rapacity
TED RALL p. 19
Despite everything I’m happy Hillary lost
ERIC BOEHLERT p. 20
Press still obsessed with Trump voters, but they didn’t care about Obama’s
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 20
Temping now
ROB PATTERSON p. 20
Trump music
MOVIES/Ed Rampell p. 21
Risk-y business: Laura Poitras’s new documentary on Julian Assange
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Why the ESPN layoffs are so disappointing
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
In North Carolina, pigs don’t fly but their feces do
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
For hope, stick with millennials
GARRISON KEILLOR p. 23
The first 100 days of my presidency have been tremendous
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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This page posted May 13, 2017