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COVER/Lauren Weber & Andy Miller p. 1
A hospital crisis is killing rural communities. Trump’s Rx won’t help.
EDITORIAL p. 2
White House of lies
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Are you ready for corporate America’s robot economy?
We are Luddites.
WILL DURST p. 3
Rex Tillerson shouldn’t have gone full ‘moron’
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
When rehab programs stink
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Buy nothing at Walmart on Black Friday
DISPATCHES p. 5
Senate OKs big cuts to Medicare, Medicaid to pay for tax cuts;
Rigged: how voter suppression threw Wisconsin to Trump;
Uninsured rate rising as Trump sabotages Obamacare;
Trump’s numbers are really, really bad;
Obama kicks off campaign to stop GOP gerrymandering;
Tillerson tells Shia fightes in Iraq to 'go home';
Abortion rates are down, so GOP is coming after birth control.
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Trump’s long history of holding health care hostage
JONATHAN THOMPSON p. 6
Coal, guns and freedom
ART CULLEN p. 6
The wrong choice for Iowa State
GENE LYONS p. 7
Sexual harassment occurs with alarming frequency
JILL RICHARDSON p. 7
Me too. And you. And you.
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 7
Abuses of power: Notes on Harvey Weinstein
ROBERT BOROSAGE p. 9
The Republican plan to rob America
JOHN YOUNG p. 9
Bed sheet flapping from the Oval Office
LEO GERARD p. 10
NAFTA negotiators send corporate whiners back to swamp
BOB BURNETT p. 10
Marching with Trump ‘Through the Valley of the Shadow’
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Thanks, Boy Scouts, but the girls have their own thing
DEAN BAKER p. 11
Wages are growing, contrary to what you read in the papers
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 11
Amazon, taxpayer subsidies and worker safety
AMANDA MARCOTTE p. 12
States take on Ryan Zinke for allowing coal companies to rip off taxpayers
RICHARD ESKOW p. 12
How to profit from the coming Trump apocalypse
HEATHER DIGBY PARTON p. 13
Trump’s sabotage politics: Break things, then take the credit when others fix them
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
Is Trump unraveling?
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Citizens step up to help Puerto Rico — Government, not so much
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 14
Congress’s war powers must be made a reality
JOSH HOXIE p. 14
So many tax lies, so little time
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Contraception and false science
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Irrational voters have their man
GENE NICHOL p. 15
Dusting off the guarantee clause for North Carolina
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Ken Burns’ Vietnam War
JOHN BUELL p. 16
Defanging debt, denigrating austerity
JUAN COLE p. 17
ISIL was defeateded not by Trump or Obama but by Muslims
JESSELYN RADACK and KATHLEEN MCCLELLAN p. 17
Insider threat program and Trump’s war on leaks: A chilling combination for whistleblowers
JOE CONASON p. 18
Let’s not neglect the alpha creep
DANA MILBANK p. 18
President Trump cooks up a soufflé of dysfunction
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
It happens all the time: Hollywood, Washington, the Old South
RALPH NADER p. 19
How big corporations game our democracy into their plutocracy
TED RALL p. 19
What would the US look like if we built it from scratch?
THOM HARTMANN p. 20
The America I knew has almost disappeared
ROB PATTERSON p. 20
Tom Petty left his stamp
SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 20
Trump 3.0: The AIs have it
MOVIES/Ed Rampell p. 21
Profile in pacifist courage: The railroading of the other Brian Wilson
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Player protests are not a spectator sport
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
I am woman, hear me roar
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
‘He didn’t even remember his name’
GARRISON KEILLOR p. 23
Welcome to the abyss
MARK ANDERSON p. 23
Equifax ‘shared’ your data, but Congress is on the case
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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This page posted October 27, 2017