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COVER/Elizabeth Henderson p. 1
Why sustainable agriculture should support a Green New Deal
EDITORIAL p. 2
Don’t play Trump’s game
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
What’s the cost of high living?
Can corporations keep suckering the people?
The wall we need to build.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
New journalism and the truth behind the facts
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Plant milkweed and trees for life
DISPATCHES p. 5
Trump tax ‘cuts’ may become political disaster.
Trump tells at least 28 lies in State of the Union speech.
NAFTA rewrite would lock in high med prices.
Black Virginians support Gov. Northam in blackface scandal.
Green New Deal reflects 2016 Democratic platform, but stronger.
Senate Leader McConnell linked to Russian oligarchs as sanctions lifted.
Loss of newspapers leads to political polarization.
ICE confirms
asylum seekers on hunger strike ae being force-fed.
Trump trade war pushes farmers into record number of bankruptcies.
FROMA HARROP p. 6
With Foxconn, Americans get snookered again
JIM VAN DER POL p. 6
Nursing the soil back to life
JOHN YOUNG p. 6
Third-party math is Trump’s fondest calculation
GENE LYONS p. 7
Age matters
JILL RICHARDSON p. 7
People who seek mental health treatment should be applauded
ART CULLEN p. 7
Can candidates define the national conversation for 2020 amid the chaos?
ART CULLEN p. 8
What is a ‘Green’ New Deal?
BOB BURNETT p. 9
State of the Union 2019: Two visions
JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 9
States should squeeze college coaches to lower tuition and house students
DANIEL MARANS p. 10
House Democrats unveil Social Security expansion bill with near-majority support
MARK WEISBROT p. 10
Trump’s illegal regime change operation will kill more Venezuelans
PETER CERTO p. 10
People who care about democracy don’t plot coups abroad
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Trump has built his wall already
DEAN BAKER p. 11
Progressive taxes only go so far. Pre-tax income is the problem.
GENE NICHOL p. 11
A minimal wage
AMANDA MARCOTTE p. 12
Democratic women send Trump a message: We’re coming for you
JOSH HOXIE p. 12
How the age of billionaires ends
JAMES EGGERT p. 12
The real crisis
HEATHER DIGBY PARTON p. 13
Final stages of the Russia probe: Trump is under assault from all directions
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
The state of the disunion
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Gov. Northam would be wise to step down
FR. DONNELL KIRCHNER p. 14
What is right and what is wrong?
SAM URETSKY p. 14
How little pharma grew up
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Canaries and the politics of immiseration
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 15
Activists, banks and for-profit immigrant prisons
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Corruption incorporated
JOHN BUELL p. 16
The return of the strike?
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 16
Trump ignites a perilous new nuclear arms race
JUAN COLE p. 17
Baghdad: Calls to expel US troops from Iraq after Trump said they spy on Iran
KENT PATERSON p. 17
The hot honeymoon of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
JOE CONASON p. 18
First, she made us listen
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
Trump came face to face with friends and foes
BARRY FRIEDMAN p. 18
Can we all just lighten up about Howard Schultz?
RALPH NADER p. 19
John C. Bogle: Renaissance money manager for the people and more
TED RALL p. 19
Why we lost the Afghan War (again)
SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 20
Tidying up with Trump
ROB PATTERSON p. 20
Blacklist and blue
BOOK REVIEW/Heather Seggel p. 20
Fear ... and loathing, but mostly fear
THEATRE REVIEW/Ed Rampell p. 21
‘Birds of Passage’ depicts the devastation of drug trafficking for South America’s indigenous people
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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This page posted Feb. 14, 2019