The Progressive POPULIST

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June 15, 2019 -- Volume 25, Number 11


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COVER/Marshall Auerback p. 1
US-China talks are about much more than trade

EDITORIAL p. 2
Pro-birth is not pro-life

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
What does Made in America mean to Trump?
Let’s re-fund America.
WILL DURST p. 3
Impeachment short form
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Remembering Rachel Held Evans

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
We are direct drivers of extinction

DISPATCHES p. 5
‘Money laundering’ and ‘The President’;
Trump camp stands against Constitution;
Judge denies Trump’s bid to deny House his financial records;
Audits of rich people plummeted last year;
Trump’s in trouble in battleground states;
Brazilian meat barons got millions from Trump’s farmer bailout;
Wold 'not on track' to stop 1.5 degrees of global warming, UN Secretary General warns;
Gas car sales 'have already peaked and may never recover' as battery prices plunge;
Monsanto hit with $2B verdict in Roundup cancer suit

FROMA HARROP p. 6
Trump’s economy is strong. Obama’s was better.
CHERIE MORTICE p. 6
Farm country: Don’t get fooled again

ART CULLEN p. 6
Trump’s folly on trade

GENE LYONS p. 7
Climate change: A matter of geophysics, not belief
JILL RICHARDSON p. 7
Reminder: Climate change was no accident

JOHN YOUNG p. 7
A mysterious coverup that would make Richard Nixon blush
ALAN MACLEOD p. 8
‘Purity tests’ can be a good thing

JAKE JOHNSON p. 8
‘Disgraceful’: While reaping $21 billion windfall from Trump tax cuts, report shows, AT&T slashed 23,000 jobs
SARAH ANDERSON p. 9
The reality behind the ‘surging’ US economy

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 9
Fetuses are not children

JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 9
Arresting the attorney general

LEO GERARD p. 10
The PRO act as a pathway to power: An economy is only as healthy as its workers are empowered

NANCY J. ALTMAN p. 10
The remarkable mothers of Social Security
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Gun violence is political, and politics must end it
DEAN BAKER p. 11
The US labor market is deteriorating for black men
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 11
How citizenship matters

STEPHANIE TAYLOR and ALEX LAWSON p. 12
Nobody likes getting ripped off by pharmaceutical corporations
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 12
A new poll tax will suppress Florida’s voting reform
HEATHER DIGBY PARTON p. 13
‘Investigating the investigators’: Republicans roll out a dangerous new gambit
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
The House has a Constitutional duty to impeach
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
65 years after Brown v. Board of Education
BOB BURNETT p. 14
Donald Trump and the measles epidemic

MARTHA BURK p. 14
The most dangerous time for women’s rights in decades

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
The last journey: Who will pay?

SAM URETSKY p. 15
Trump puts hopes on tariffic trade war

GEORGE MILLER p. 15
For a Green New Deal that works, look to California

WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
The Trump international

JOHN BUELL p. 16
On negotiating with Trump and his allies

JASON SIBERT p. 16
Military spending is worth fighting for

JUAN COLE p. 17
Top ten differences between the Iraq war and Trump’s proposed Iran war
GREGORY SHUPAK p. 17
Distorting ‘democracy’ in Venezuela coverage
JOE CONASON p. 18
The hypocrites on the Hill
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
Trump’s fondness for strongmen leaders abroad
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 18
Elizabeth Warren’s unifying race narrative
RALPH NADER p. 19
The contented classes — when will they rebel?
TED RALL p. 19
Death to the stump speech
BOOK REVIEW/Heather Seggel p. 20
Escaping garbage island

ROB PATTERSON p. 20
News and infotainment sources

SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 20
Trumpus redactus

NINA GOLGOWSKI p. 20
Washington to become the first state to offer public health insurance
FILM REVIEW/Ed Rampell p. 21
What about Confederate movie monuments — like ‘Gone with the Wind’?

EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Red Sox players are divided over White House visit
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
John Bolton is the world’s worst nightmare
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Welcome to the dystopia of Alabama
DANA MILBANK p. 23
Trump’s not claiming executive power. He’s going for divine right.
HECTOR FIGUEROA and BEN BEACHY p. 23
Save the planet — with good union jobs

Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen


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