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COVER/Art Cullen p. 1
Anxious farmers search for rainbow amid floods and trade war
EDITORIAL p. 2
Trump’s Twitter trade wars
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
How to arm nature against corporate profiteers.
Our privacy rights are being sold, stolen and stripped.
How ridiculous is Trump’s border stand?
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Eating as an act of protest
HEALTH CARE/Margot McMillen p. 5
Hog confinements change neighborhoods
DISPATCHES p. 5
Support for impeachment rises with GOP Rep. Justin Amash;
Trump lags in battleground states;
Iowa Poll points to Dem top tier;
Supreme Court will hear attack on anti-discrimination law;
Kushner co. got $90M from anonymous offshore investors;
Trump pushes 20 years in prison for pipeline protesters;
Texas keeps low ranking in maternal health:
Arctic death spiral speeds up sixfold, driving coastal permafrost collapse;
ICE has no idea how many veterans it has deported, watchdog report finds;
Abortion ban poised to take effect in Alabama, where rapists can sue for custody;
Trump-voting truckers turn on prez after their taxes jump $8,000
...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Trigger warnings for Donald Trump
BEN LILLISTON p. 6
Taking farmers for a ride
CHRISTY SPEES p. 6
If we want antibiotics to work, consumers have to put pressure on factory farms
GENE LYONS p. 7
Making standardized testing molehill into a mountain
JILL RICHARDSON p. 7
Celebrating Pride, mindfully
JOHN YOUNG p. 7
Crime of the century and its beneficiary
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 8
Trump’s attack on working people demands a bold, progressive response
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 9
Democrats need to reclaim immigration narrative
BOB BURNETT p. 9
Trump’s road to Armageddon
JASON SIBERT p. 9
Negative nationalism sells guns
LEO GERARD p. 10
The Koch brothers’ new look
PAUL CIENFUEGOS p. 10
When will politicians start exercising their constitutional authority to rein in large corporations like Amazon?
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Look, mom, we built a border wall!
DEAN BAKER p. 11
Would a compromise on the drug pricing bill be a victory or defeat?
GENE NICHOL p. 11
Look, mom, we built a border wall!
JEFF BRYANT p. 12
Democratic candidates may have to choose between teacher pay raises and charter schools
HEATHER DIGBY PARTON p. 13
Understanding the Trump Doctrine: Trade-based bullying and crude imperialism
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
The gig is up
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Bluster is not strength
PETER CERTO p. 14
A Father’s Day gift for myself: activism
MARK ANDERSON p. 14
Do not ask for whom the road tolls
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Micro points of light: distracted driving in the states
SAM URETSKY p. 15
We need a scale on ‘soft sciences’
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 15
Business and Medicare for All
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Getting Bernie
JOHN BUELL p. 16
Neoliberalism and privatization are driving our crises, from Guatemala to Moscow
JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 16
National service and college loans
JUAN COLE p. 17
Pompeo: Jared Kushner’s Palestine plan ‘unexecutable;’ Kushner: Palestinians unready for self-rule
N. GUNASEKARAN p. 17
India’s path forward after Modi’s landslide victory
JOE CONASON p. 18
Kushner proved he is a security risk — again
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
The ugly American lands in London
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 18
Elizabeth Warren presents plan to bolster American workers and manufacturing
RALPH NADER p. 19
Society is in decay — when the worst is first and the best is last
TED RALL p. 19
Media gloats about censoring opinions of 37% of Americans
ERIC BOEHLERT p. 20
Here we go again: The campaign press is obsessing over white working-class Trump voters
ROB PATTERSON p. 20
Sam Cooke’s wonderful voice survives
SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 20
Meet your new leaders: FATGM
FILM REVIEW/Ed Rampell p. 21
Terry Gilliam’s quixotic quest: Mancha ado about...?
SARAH ANDERSON p. 21
America needs a long-term care program for seniors
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
LeBron James’s partnership with Walmart sparks criticism
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
‘When They See Us’: Ava DuVernay’s powerful re-examination of the Central Park jogger case
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Out of the shadows
DANA MILBANK p. 23
New documents on the census confirm: Trump’s Raison D’Etre is white power
WILL DURST p. 23
For Trump, there’s always a new story
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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This page posted June 15, 2019