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COVER/Paul Mason p. 1
Ten years since the financial crisis we’re still getting screwed
EDITORIAL p. 2
Supreme power play
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
How far-out is Trump’s war policy?
Gentrification begets gentrification.
WILL DURST p. 3
The GOP hokey pokey
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Ohio officials show no grace
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Thought for food as farmers hit the wall
DISPATCHES p. 5
Data shows little evidence tax cuts trickled down to workers.
Trump is biggest middle-class tax raiser of all time.
GOP Senate candidate vows to protect pre-existing conditions while working to end ACA.
Pharma exec claims ‘moral requirement’ to raise drug price 400%.
In crosshairs of ‘right-to-work,’ Kentucky bourbon workers strike.
Trump cuts Head Start, cancer research to fund child detention.
Trump passes 5,000 lies.
US is second-biggest lower from climate change economically.
US ambassador Haley conradicts Giuliani, says US notseeking regime change in Iran after terror attack.
Electric car batteries' 'second life' could be clean energy game changer.
Despite progressive rebranding, Nike still donates more to GOP.
Keeping Kavanaugh off court more important to Maine and Alaska than re-electing Collins and Murkowski.
Trump judges make it easier for prosecutors to convict innocents
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FROMA HARROP p. 6
How about Medicare advantage for all?
RUXANDRA GUIDI p. 6
California’s apocalyptic fires are a side effect of modern life
JIM GOODMAN and TIFFANY FINCK-HAYNES p. 6
Monsanto-Bayer merger hurts farmers and consumers
GENE LYONS p. 7
Kavanaugh no judge of character
JILL RICHARDSON p. 7
Why women don’t report sexual assault
JOHN YOUNG p. 7
Mr. Vice President, you are one big phony
ROBERT BOROSAGE p. 8
A new roadmap for getting change done
HAL CROWTHER p. 9
Cue the visigoths
LEO GERARD p. 10
The 1% has a dark plot to replace American democracy with an elite plutocracy — and it’s working
BOB BURNETT p. 10
Suspicions confirmed, Woodward on Trump
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Trump’s detention policy: Fiscally exorbitant as well as morally bankrupt
DEAN BAKER p. 11
Cheap tricks with economic statistics: The Democratic version
MARK ANDERSON p. 11
Two pot bills pave the way for better health research, decriminalization
ART CULLEN p. 12
The view from Iowa: Where immigrants are at the heart of America’s culture war
OLIVIA ALPERSTEIN p. 12
Future generations will mourn what the EPA did on 9/11
HEATHER DIGBY PARTON p. 13
Decoding Rod Rosenstein melodrama: Distraction from Kavanaugh, or part of a larger plot?
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
The three big lessons we didn’t learn from the economic crisis
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
As world burns, Trump adds fuel to fire
BOOK REVIEW/Heather Seggel p. 14
Stay nasty
PETER CERTO p. 14
Nobody in the White House is part of ‘The Resistance’
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Beware The Bill
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Table manners make the candidate
WENONAH HAUTER p. 15
New legislation would put the brakes on wave of ag mega-mergers
JASON SIBERT p. 15
Who runs the police?
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
The rhinestone cowboy
JOHN BUELL p. 16
Men’s bodies and the politics of abortion
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 16
Want to defend Democracy? Start with your public library.
JUAN COLE p. 17
US created 4 million refugees in Iraq, slashes immigrant cap to 30,000
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 17
Brain injuries, US military and NFL
JOE CONASON p. 18
Kavanaugh charade is coming apart
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
Shakespeare on Trump: A tale full of sound and fury
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 18
Of course, it’s racial
RALPH NADER p. 19
Where is the Democrats’ contract with America 2018?
TED RALL p. 19
All the anonymous BS that’s fit to print: Self-serving newspapers ditch their own ethics rules
JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 19
Henry Ford would fire Ford CEO Jim Hackett
FR. DONNELL KIRCHNER p. 20
Rise above the clergy scandal
ROB PATTERSON p. 20
Birth and death of joke tellers
SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 20
Tell all, tell fast
MOVIE REVIEW/Ed Rampell p. 21
Michael Moore turns up the heat in Fahrenheit 11/9
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
True grit: Vontae Davis retires at halftime
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Hurricane Florence blows open harsh realities of American inequality
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Nothing normal about allegations against teenager Kavanaugh
DANA MILBANK p. 23
Texas creates the perfect curriculum for the Trump age
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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This page posted Sept. 28, 2018