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COVER/Lucian K. Truscott IV p. 1
You don’t cut taxes with two wars and 240,000 troops overseas
EDITORIAL p. 2
The Resistance strikes back
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Why reward bad corporate behavior with more tax breaks?
Why does Amazon get corporate welfare?
Trump’s wars
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Young Evangelicals blurring theological lines
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Food for thought: Why not thought for food?
DISPATCHES p. 5
McConnell concedes GOP tax plan will increase taxes on many;
GOP tax plan is all unicorns;
Landmine in GOP tax bill would give fetuses personhood;
GOP plan raises tax on graduate students;
Obamacare grows despite Trump’s sabotage;
Maine voters opt for Medicaid expansion;
GOP ready to push Trump judicial choices through;
Dems win with serious, affirmative agenda;
Big Oil loses big in Washington State
...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
From real estate to the presidency and back
FORREST WHITMAN p. 6
Can a progressive ever win election in the rural West?
ART CULLEN p. 6
Rural despair
JOHN YOUNG p. 6
Shameless merchants of debt
GENE LYONS p. 7
Not all sexual sins are criminal
JILL RICHARDSON p. 7
Gun control shouldn’t be this hard
ROBERT BOROSAGE p. 8
The GOP tax bill is an attempt to destroy government
ISAIAH J. POOLE p. 8
Nine reasons to stop the GOP’s giant tax gift bucket
BOB BURNETT p. 9
Trump’s tax cut challenge
SAM PIZZIGATI p. 9
If you want to collect Social Security, Trump’s tax plan is an outrage
OLIVIA ALPERSTEIN p. 9
What real tax reform could look like
RICHARD ESKOW p. 10
Dems want to ditch leaders and move left; they’re right
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 10
Forests and trees
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Non-disclosure agreements do not silence victims of sexual predators
DEAN BAKER p. 11
Productivity growth is up, are the robots really coming?
PETER CERTO p. 11
Republicans admit their tax plan is all about rich donors
BARRY FRIEDMAN p. 12
American voices: The Resistance, year one
HEATHER DIGBY PARTON p. 13
Yes, it was a referendum on Trump: Reason for hope, a year after the catastrophe
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
Trump’s most damning legacy
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
True scandal in Puerto Rican recovery effort is Trump’s dereliction
MARK ANDERSON p. 14
Is a groundwater ‘trade deficit’ gurgling under our feet?
OSCAR REYES p. 14
If there’s a war on coal, coal already lost
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Emergency rooms as Realtors: A micro point of light on the healthcare horizon
SAM URETSKY p. 15
It’s never too early to discuss public safety
BERNADETTE DEMIENTIEFF p. 15
Tax cuts for the rich are threatening America’s sacred places
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
That Kennedy tax cut
JOHN BUELL p. 16
President Trump: Nuclear business as usual?
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 16
Have Democrats learned their lesson? There’s reason for hope.
JUAN COLE p. 17
Saudi official views Lebanon ‘at war with us’
JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 17
Robots create made in the USA jobs
JOE CONASON p. 18
Now we know John Kelly
DANA MILBANK p. 18
Trump was on the ballot in Virginia. He lost.
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
Virginia, a ray of light on a rainy day
RALPH NADER p. 19
The serious price of the hyperconvenient economy
TED RALL p. 19
Another reason to protect bicycle and pedestrian paths from cars
BOOK REVIEW/Seth Sandronsky p. 19
Sports safety advocacy
BOOK REVIEW/Heather Seggel p. 20
Questions before the Resistance
ROB PATTERSON p. 20
Royal flush
SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 20
A tale of three Harveys
MOVIES/Ed Rampell p. 21
Stars, survivors, relatives, remember Hollywood blacklist’s 70th anniversary
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
#MeToo in sports: Moving from revelations to policy
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Mass shootings and domestic violence
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
She took on the bully, and she won
GARRISON KEILLOR p. 23
Donald Trump is done
WILL DURST p. 23
It’s beginning to look a lot like Watergate...
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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This page posted November 18, 2017