The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
February 15, 2020 -- Volume 26, Number 3


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COVER/Maanyi Singh p. 1
Water crisis in cities worsens already terrible inequality

EDITORIAL p. 2
No time for Democratic schism

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
What’s the charitable thing to do about inequality?
Doing the tax-dodge tap dance.
FRANK LINGO p. 3
Interview with Lucifer

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
State republicans and their comfort zones

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Genetically modified impossible burgers are trouble

DISPATCHES p. 5
The last thing Republicans want is a fair trial on impeachment;
Expert: Ga. election server showed signs of tampering;
Moscow Mitch blows off latest Russian hacking news, says we’ve done enough to protect the election;
Medicare for All is not a pipe dream;
Inflation adjusted wages rose 0% in 2019, 51% got no raises;
Vast majority of Americans say US economic system unfiarly benefits the powerful;
Sciff says NSA, CIA withhold documents from Congress, including those relevant to impeachment;
Trump legal team: what happens 'when you don't pay your legal bills':
Food & Water Action says US=Mexico-Canada Agreement is bad for climate and food safety;
Lev Parnas worked his way into Trump's world — and is now rattling it ...

FROMA HARROP p. 6
Democrats should put an end to caucuses
ART CULLEN p. 6
Iowa says we’ll let you know when we decide

BEN LILLISTON p. 6
Cory Booker’s halt on factory farms would help the climate

GENE LYONS p. 7
Hillary’s dubious distinction
JILL RICHARDSON p. 7
Why do we have school lunch debt at all?

JOHN YOUNG p. 7
Standing around oblivious to flames

MARK ANDERSON p. 8
As the wells run dry, so does democracy

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 9
Assassination nation
JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 9
President Trump’s appointment of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner violates federal law

TOM CONWAY p. 10
OSHA’S inertia
BOB BURNETT p. 10
2000-2019: What hath the internet wrought?

MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
The GI Bill: A lesson in civics, philanthropy and democracy — from 1944 to 2020
DEAN BAKER p. 11
The economic impact of war
SARAH ANDERSON p. 11
Congress: War profiteering is real. We need to end it.
ARTHUR DELANEY p. 12
Cutting Social Security disability benefits can backfire horribly
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 12
Trump has betrayed his voters
HEATHER DIGBY PARTON p. 13
Lev Parnas spins wild tales of Trumpian corruption — and we know most are true
ROBERT REICH p. 13
American companies are free agents — which Trump doesn’t understand
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
New hope for Pembroke Township
JESSICAH PIERRE p. 14
Learning from King’s last campaign
ROGER BYBEE p. 14
Centrist dems, pundits use insurers’ key words against Medicare for All

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Think locally: The health mantra for 2020

SAM URETSKY p. 15
Issues will drive the Democratic vote

SAM PIZZIGATI p. 15
Are America’s rich getting tired of winning?

WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Here’s to your health (or not)

JOHN BUELL p. 16
Financing post secondary education — for all
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 16
Job quality index says economy has a way to go

JUAN COLE p. 17
Challenge to Trump: Muqtada al-Sadr & Iraqi Shiite leaders call for a million-man march against US military occupation
JOSEPH B. ATKINS p. 17
US interference in foreign affairs is business as usual

JOE CONASON p. 18
A fair and balanced impeachment
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
The Oscars honor our very own joker
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 18
How about some NAFTA rights for US workers?
RALPH NADER p. 19
Full impeachments for Trump will shake senate republicans from kangaroo court
TED RALL p. 19
Iran is not what you think
BOOK REVIEW/Heather Seggel p. 20
Let the bodies hit the floor

ROB PATTERSON p. 20
Well-told detective tales

GENE NICHOL p. 20
A broken university

MOVIE REVIEW/Ed Rampell p. 21
Estranged bedfellows: What the FOX is going on?

EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
John Carlos responds to the new Olympics ban on political protest
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Moms 4 Housing in Oakland continue MLK’s fight
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
It piles up, this stuff in our way
DANA MILBANK p. 23
This has to be one of the most successful failures in modern political history
SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 23
So long, dear dotard

Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen


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