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COVER/David Daley p. 1
Democrats just blew it in Wisconsin: Elections are likely to stay rigged in favor of GOP
EDITORIAL p. 2
Barr’s trail of coverups
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Where the money is.
What is the ‘AI Agenda,’ who’s pushing it and why?
WILL DURST p. 3
Impeachment and the Hamlet conundrum
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Of opiates and foster homes
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Factory farms bring alternative universe crashing on neighbors
DISPATCHES p. 5
Trump would have been charged with multiple felonies if he weren’t president, former prosecutors say;
Senate up for grabs in 2020;
Trump breezes past 10,000 lies;
As EPA stalls, 43 states have water sites contaminated with toxic chemicals;
Did workers get 80% of corporate tax benefits? Try 6%;
GOP tax law screwed survivors' benefits for military families;
Inslee rolls out sweeping climate plan, setting new standard for 2020 Dems;
Trump massively raises tariffs against China at expense of US consumers;
US officials assert 'near-unfettered authority' to search phones, mobile devices at border;
Trump officials had 'no way to link' migrant kids they stole from parents, internal emails confirm;
Super-majority of Arab youth in pol say religion too important in public life;
Yemen war is one of the most destructive since the Cold War;
Trump organizations squeeze taxpayers for every last Trump-demanded dime
...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
‘Liberal’ media is not always the liberal’s friend
JIM VAN DER POL p. 6
Creative destruction in agriculture
ART CULLEN p. 6
Planting on hope
GENE LYONS p. 7
Blooming Democratic field offers sign of strength
JILL RICHARDSON p. 7
If you’ve suffered, get help
JOHN YOUNG p. 7
Words to a child: One nation under the gun
AMANDA MARCOTTE p. 8
Can Democrats vet the 2020 candidates without doing Donald Trump’s dirty work?
SAM PIZZIGATI p. 9
A plaintive plea from America’s rich: Let’s change the subject!
JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 9
China is burying us
LEO GERARD p. 10
Dying on the job: Victims of workplace safety abandoned by OSHA
BOB HENNELLY p. 10
The labor tide is rising: New union militancy bypasses parlor politics in favor of direct action
ELLIOT MINCBERG p. 10
Confirmed judges, confirmed fears
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Do pro-life grandstanders actually care about rape in war zones?
DEAN BAKER p. 11
What we have learned from the Trump tax cut
HAL CROWTHER p. 12
When words fail
HEATHER DIGBY PARTON p. 13
Trump under scrutiny: He may start longing for the good old days of the Mueller ‘witch hunt’
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
Congress can’t let Trump win his fight against oversight
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
GOP, not Russia, is greater threat to free elections
WENONAH HAUTER p. 14
Flint: 5 years later, and our water is more threatened than ever
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 14
The urgent necessity of public-interest journalism
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Balance billing and Emily Dickinson: Springtime optimism
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Profits are no reason to run health care
BOOK REVIEW/Heather Seggel p. 15
Too much, never enough
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Myths about Medicare for All
JOHN BUELL p. 16
Equal opportunity for what?
GENE NICHOL p. 16
Who NC republicans work for
JUAN COLE p. 17
American tragedy: Veteran rams Hindu family, thinking they were Muslims, in Sunnyvale
BOB BURNETT p. 17
Five takeaways from the Mueller report
JOE CONASON p. 18
What made Robert Mueller so mad
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
Spring breezes from the old and new days
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 18
Impeachment: the false choices
RALPH NADER p. 19
Boeing mismanagers forfeit your pay and resign: Open letter to CEO Dennis Muilenburg
TED RALL p. 19
Democrats’ refusal to impeach could be the death of them in 2020
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 20
The race card
ROB PATTERSON p. 20
40 years since Led Zeppelin rearranged my brain
SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 20
The one state solution
FILM REVIEW/Ed Rampell p. 21
Queen Lears: Four feisty female Democratic ‘insurgents’ challenge congressional status quo
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Felipe Lopez and the Dominican dream
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Omar to Trump: ‘Your demented views are not welcome here’
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Personal mantras and racial realities
DANA MILBANK p. 23
We shall overcome Trump. We have survived worse.
BOOK REVIEW/Seth Sandronsky p. 23
Caring for labor
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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This page posted May 10, 2019