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COVER/Kevin Robillard p. 1
Progressives will lead Democrats in some of 2018’s biggest contests
EDITORIAL p. 2
Economic royalists remain
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Celebrating Labor Day.
Will you win the ‘throw your money at Amazon’ sweepstakes?
WILL DURST p. 3
All the president’s con men
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Redistricting plan changes everything (and nothing)
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
What are the Pols going to do for my town?
DISPATCHES p. 5
US split on Kavanaugh confirmation; hearings didn’t help.
Obama embraces Medicare for all.
GOP on Obama: He made us elect a racist idiot.
Trump’s lie count passes 4,713.
After blowing up deficit with tax cuts, Republicans want credit for fiscal responsibility.
Texas leads lawsuit to overturn health care for pre-existing conditions.
DACA gets win in court from judge who thinks it’s illegal.
Trump team returns EPA to Reagan-era staffing level
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FROMA HARROP p. 6
Identity politics are a double-edged sword
JERRY BRADY p. 6
Latinos learn their worth in Idaho
ART CULLEN p. 6
Candidate shows up early, listens carefully
GENE LYONS p. 7
McCain’s example hasn’t been completely lost on Americans
JILL RICHARDSON p. 7
Imagine our economy as a game of ‘Monopoly’
JOHN YOUNG p. 7
Republicans strap on an orange suicide vest
S.V. DATE p. 8
Democrats and Republicans in Florida’s governor’s race got the opponent they wanted
ROBERT BOROSAGE p. 8
It’s time for progressives to raise their game
LEO GERARD p. 9
Labor Day: 24 Hours when workers are humans
MARSHALL AUERBACK p. 10
Trump’s NAFTA redo can’t solve America’s manufacturing problems
SAM PIZZIGATI p. 10
How to recognize a plutocracy: The dead giveaway
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Grieve for Mollie Tibbetts, and demand justice, but spare us the libel against immigrants
DEAN BAKER p. 11
Trump succeeds in making insurance for people with health problems unaffordable
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 12
Elizabeth Warren has bold ideas about how to drain the swamp
BOB BURNETT p. 12
It’s the corruption, stupid
HEATHER DIGBY PARTON p. 13
Bombshell revelations about the Trump White House: It’s even worse than we feared
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
Conditions are ripe for another economic crash
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Kaepernick may finally see justice in collusion grievance
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 14
Free and unfree labor alliance
FRANK CLEMENTE p. 14
Check your wallet: Can you find the $4k Trump promised you?
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Health policy: A little good news
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Are liberals and conservatives wired differently?
BASAY SEN p. 15
Killing for coal (literally)
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
The woman who would kill health care
JOHN BUELL p. 16
Race, slavery, and the politics of welfare
DANIELA ASPIAZU p. 16
This school year, let’s keep kids in classrooms
JUAN COLE p. 17
Crazytown abroad: Trump’s dreams of preemptive war, assassination and withdrawal
BOOK REVIEW/Heather Seggel p. 17
The story in the numbers
JOE CONASON p. 18
A nation without real news
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
McCain’s greatest gift to Obama
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 18
How Democrats can make race a winning issue
RALPH NADER p. 19
Stop Brett Kavanaugh — A corporation masquerading as a judge
TED RALL p. 19
Please speak ill of the dead
SHERRY BRENNAN p. 19
You can teach kids hard work, but feed them first
SATIRE/Barry Friedman p. 20
Annotated text of Donald Trump’s eulogy for John McCain
ROB PATTERSON p. 20
The red’s turned to gray, but Willie’s welcome to stay
SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 20
And God said ...
MOVIE REVIEW/Ed Rampell p. 21
Infiltrate hate: Spike Lee’s ‘BlacKkKlansman’
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
On Colin Kaepernick’s Nike ad: Will the revolution be branded?
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Why is Crystal Mason going to prison? For voting.
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Geoffrey Owens is a real somebody
DANA MILBANK p. 23
America is still free, and the people will be heard
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 23
Corporate censorship is still censorship
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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This page posted Sept. 14, 2018