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COVER/Stephen Talbot p. 1
Revisiting the supply-side tax cut disaster: How does Kansas feel about Brownback’s ‘experiment’?
EDITORIAL p. 2
Banana Republicans
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Examining the Kochtopus. Learning from DeMarco.
WILL DURST p. 3
Circus Trump
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Lead or get out of the way
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Look for bad bills at every level of government
DISPATCHES p. 5
Net neutrality eliminated;
Renewable energy milestones reached;
Trump’s big idea for health insurance excludes maternity care and barely covers addition treatment;
Trumpism takes deregulation to new depths;
Farm bill attacks
Romneyfinishes second in Senate nomination battle;
Large number of Amazon workers rely on food stamps;
Global warming threatens coastal property bubble
...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Social media spreads fake bodies, as well as fake news
RON PULLIAM & GARY PAUL NABHAN p. 6
Border wildlife don’t need the National Guard
ART CULLEN p. 6
At least I got the ex-journalist, and the Irish, vote
GENE LYONS p. 7
‘A Higher Loyalty’ exposes shortcomings of subject and author
JILL RICHARDSON p. 7
Another counterproductive assault on food stamps
JOHN YOUNG p. 7
And the Democrats say, ‘thank you’
SOPHIA TESFAYE p. 8
Paul Ryan’s parting gift to the rich: Yet another Republican tax cut?
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 8
Pushing back against the occupation
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 9
The rising backlash to Paul Ryan’s conservatism
LINDSAY KOSHGARIAN p. 9
It’s time to cut the contractors loose
MARK ANDERSON p. 9
Right wants to keep US the World’s Cop
ROBERT BOROSAGE p. 10
The real deal on Trump’s trade tantrums
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Testimony against Missouri governor reveals truths about sexual assault victims
DEAN BAKER p. 11
Harvard teaches us that hedge fund managers get rich even when they mess up
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 11
Poor people’s campaign grows
AMANDA MARCOTTE p. 12
Why won’t Trump judicial nominee Wendy Vitter support a landmark desegregation case?
BOB BURNETT p. 12
Another look at Trump supporters
HEATHER DIGBY PARTON p. 13
What James Comey and Donald Trump have in common: Immense and damaging hubris
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
While China picks winners, Trump picks losers
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Syria strike is one more step toward lawless presidency
ROGER BYBEE p. 14
Ryan exit heightens chances of flipping key district
JONATHAN COHN p. 14
Here comes another democratic proposal to let more Americans buy into Medicare
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
The land of unintended consequences
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Trouble in Trumpland
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Cruisin’ for a bruisin’
JOHN BUELL p. 16
Students as debt slaves
PETER CERTO p. 16
There was nothing humanitarian about our strikes in Syria
JUAN COLE p. 17
Syria after Trump’s withdrawal: Top reasons an ‘Arab Force’ will fail
FR. DONNELL KIRCHNER p. 17
Blind religious motivation vs. religious idealism
JOE CONASON p. 18
A few hard questions for Comey
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 18
Will Trump fire Rosenstein? It may not matter.
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
Comey: Did he take democracy down?
RALPH NADER p. 19
The hour is late — speak out, stand tall ex-officials
TED RALL p. 19
Distractor-in-Chief Trump is gaslighting us
MORRIS PEARL p. 19
No, the census shouldn’t ask about citizenship
BARRY FRIEDMAN p. 20
I’m tired of sitting in the middle
ROB PATTERSON p. 20
Try detectives across the ocean
SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 20
Special ‘K’
MUSIC REVIEW/Ed Rampell p. 21
Odes to joy and oy: From the 9th to 9/11, Beethoven meets Adams in the wild west
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Eric Reid is not for sale
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Facebook unfriends democracy
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Barbara Bush was all that
DANA MILBANK p. 23
Trump bulldozed truth — and not just in Washington
JOSH HOXIE p. 23
Five tax myths debunked
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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This page posted April 25, 2017