The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland


January 1-15, 2019 -- Volume 25, Number 1

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COVER/Art Cullen & Tom Cullen p. 1
Trump denies what farmers already know: Rains are heavier every year.

EDITORIAL p. 2
Call Trump’s bluff on immigration reform

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Free the free press from Wall Street plunderers.
Putting the Trump stamp on the public.

WILL DURST p. 3
Monetizing the White House
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
David, Goliath and Sister Mary

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Farmers won’t like climate change, and neither will you

DISPATCHES p. 5
Treasury report nixes revival of postals banking, but proposes limits on postal unions.
Supreme Court punts on defunding Planned Parenthood.
Powerful House Dem supports Green New Deal.
Unemployment unchanged at 3.7%, but wage growth stays weak.
House GOP leaders resist reinstatement of net neutrality.
Trump boost of the coal industry has consumption down 4%.
Nebraska farmers say Trump trade war cost them $1.2B.
Trump's AG pick has a special record on special investigtions ...

FROMA HARROP p. 6
Alcohol and opioids are different risks
JONATHAN THOMPSON p. 6
Trump’s methane rule rollback burns the natural gas bridge
ART CULLEN p. 6
Trump got rolled

GENE LYONS p. 7
Why ‘Individual 1’ is owned by Vladimir Putin
JILL RICHARDSON p. 7
Republicans don’t want your vote to count

JOHN YOUNG p. 7
Trump’s intriguing definition of ‘zero’

CARL POPE p. 8
‘Yellow Vest’ protesters in Paris and Green New Dealers at home: Enemies or future comrades?
LEO GERARD p. 9
Workers petition Congress: Protect our pensions
JASON SIBERT p. 9
Disorder defines Trump’s world

MARSHALL AUERBACK p. 10
GM offers proof to the world that slashing wages isn’t the ticket to profitability

GEORGE GOEHL p. 10
Heartland holds the key to winning in 2020
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
On a mission from God, but to do what?
DEAN BAKER p. 11
Sanders-Khanna bill would stop monopoly drug pricing in the US
DJUAN WASH p. 11
How this grinch steals democracy
DAVID J. SCHMIDT p. 12
The priest and the migrant: Meeting the caravan in the Advent season

JASMINE AGUILERA p. 12
Lessons from south of the border
HEATHER DIGBY PARTON p. 13
Michael Flynn’s sentencing memo is a puzzle — but the clues look bad for Donald Trump
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
Trump takes on GM (and guess who wins?)
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
We must hold officials responsible for black man’s death
GENE NICHOL p. 14
Impeachable offense

BOB BURNETT p. 14
10 Action items for Democrats

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
The gray wave rises

SAM URETSKY p. 15
Letting go of industrial regulations isn’t bringing back the jobs

SAM PIZZIGATI p. 15
Executives make millions misleading cancer patients. Here’s one way to stop them.

WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Trump’s sugar high

JOHN BUELL p. 16
Building a green new deal

SETH SANDRONSKY p. 16
Subsidize this

JUAN COLE p. 17
The pivotal G.H.W. Bush presidency: How the US became mired in the Mideast
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 17
Congress takes critical step toward reasserting its war-power control
JOE CONASON p. 18
With Mueller, patience is patriotic
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
Goodbye, poppy. You were never one of us.
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 18
With glut of 2020 candidates, progressive Democrats need to get their act together
RALPH NADER p. 19
First step post-election — open up the closed, secretive Congress
TED RALL p. 19
The George H.W. Bush hagiography is the elites’ finest accomplishment
BOOK REVIEW/Heather Seggel p. 20
Ordering the chaos

ROB PATTERSON p. 20
Traveling by tube

SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 20
What to serve at a hanging

NICOLE BRAUN p. 20
Hell-care in Michigan
MOVIE REVIEW/Ed Rampell p. 21
AFI Fest 2018: The Weekend, Stan & Ollie

EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
The NFL still only cares about violence against women when there’s video
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Pray for the dead. Fight like hell for the living
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Michelle and Sheryl and that itty-bitty swearword
DANA MILBANK p. 23
Why would Trump need brains with his gut?
PETER CERTO p. 23
It’s good to argue about dead presidents

Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen


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