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COVER/Daniel Marans and Jonathan Cohn p. 1
Bernie Sanders welcomes war with insurance industry over Medicare for All
EDITORIAL p. 2
Let the chips fall
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Tax Dodgers Inc.
Playing Monopoly for real.
WILL DURST p. 3
Democrats have a white man problem
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Coal towns, their past and present
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Kick a bully if it’s Monsanto
DISPATCHES p. 5
Trump lawsuit to block congressional oversight reads like his tweets;
Modest projections about NAFTA 2.0 economic gains makes passage unlikely;
Social Security trust fund will reach zero in 2035, trustees say;
Earth Day founder thinks we're close to political breakthrough on climate;
Warren student debt cancellation plan helps most vulnerable;
Trump unpopularity spreads to battleground states;
Trump and Pence tweeted about Notre Dame fire but ignord 3 black churches burned in Louisiana;
Global economy could save $160 trillion by shifting to renewables;
Sen. Richard Burr leaked Trump-linked targets of FBI probe to White House
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Change is coming to health care. Vote wisely.
JIM GOODMAN p. 6
Don’t fall for the hype of free trade agreements
JOHN YOUNG p. 6
‘Stick it to them’ policies that have stuck
GENE LYONS p. 7
Sanders’ past is not right for America’s future
JILL RICHARDSON p. 7
Why is going green so hard? Because our system isn’t
SAM PIZZIGATI p. 7
How progressives can fix the progressive income tax
DR. SANJEEV K. SRIRAM p. 8
AMA joins corporate lobbyists to kill Medicare expansion
JAKE JOHNSON p. 9
While much of US media play along, critics warn Assange indictment an ‘obvious’ ploy with deeper dangers
NORMAN SOLOMON p. 9
The toxic lure of ‘guns and butter’
FRANK CLEMENTE p. 9
So who really got a tax cut this year?
LEO GERARD p. 10
Hard knocks turned Alison McIntosh collectivist
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 10
A progressive one-two punch to fix the US economy
JESSICAH PIERRE p. 10
A revolutionary idea to close the racial wealth divide
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Betsy DeVos can’t be bothered
DEAN BAKER p. 11
Threatening the chair of the Fed is no way to lower interest rates
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 11
Extinction rebellion
ART CULLEN p. 12
Beto has some beef, plus star power
RICHARD COHEN p. 12
At long last, Trump, have you no decency?
HEATHER DIGBY PARTON p. 13
Roadmap for impeachment: Mueller’s purpose is clear
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
How Mitch McConnell killed the Senate
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Wall Street’s addiction to crime
BARRY FRIEDMAN p. 14
Me and Joe on the line
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
A president hog-wild about pork
SAM URETSKY p. 15
House call program brings dentistry to seniors who don’t have their own foundation
MIKE KUHLENBECK p. 15
Nothing to smile about: The inequality gap in dental care
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Single-payer and its enemies
JOHN BUELL p. 16
Democracy vs the bipartisan consensus
JUAN COLE p. 17
Classic anti-semitic tropes are being marshaled against Omar and Muslim-Americans
PAUL ARMENTANO p. 17
Pushing marijuana legalization over the finish line
GENE NICHOL p. 17
N.C.’s continuing crusade against democracy
JOE CONASON p. 18
If Trump weren’t POTUS, he would be indicted
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
Mayor Pete dares to speak love’s name
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 18
Socialism rears its head
RALPH NADER p. 19
Bully Donald’s firings: Why do they slink away & stay silent?
TED RALL p. 19
Meritocracy is stupid and evil and must die
BOOK REVIEW/Heather Seggel p. 20
Pleasure principles
ROB PATTERSON p. 20
Bingeing blue
SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 20
Orange you glad he’s our president?
FILM REVIEW/Ed Rampell p. 21
Much ado about little
KELLY MARTIN p. 21
How the White House spent Earth Day
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Tiger Woods can’t be apolitical in the age of Trump and Kaepernick
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Netanyahu, Trump prevent peace in the Holy Land
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Vetting Democrats is not ‘eating our own’
DANA MILBANK p. 23
For Trump, it’s the season for treason
TODD LARSEN p. 23
The planetary cost of Amazon’s convenience
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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This page posted April 25, 2019