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COVER/Frederick Clayton p. 1
The Southwest offers blueprints for the future of wastewater reuse
EDITORIAL p. 2
GQP crowd control
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
To bust monopoly power, start with dinner. Why do we celebrate Earth Day?
FRANK LINGO p. 3
Justice brings peace
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Why J.D. Vance could be a very formidable foe
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
What good did COVID do?
DISPATCHES p. 5
Coal miners join climate activists to back Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure plan.
Trump’s South Texas border wall foiled by $5 ladders.
Six states gain congressional seats and seven states lose seats for the coming decade.
US economic confidence hits positive territory for the first time since pandemic.
R’s wait to see if Trump’s choice leaves Texas for a Georgia Senate run.
Inspector general reports show how Trump officials failed Puerto Rico and undercut the EPA.
Tax on Wall Street transactions proposed to fund tuition-free college.
Don't bleach it away: Remember the day Trump turned the GQP into a death cult. ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Some countries are happier than others. Right?
ART CULLEN p. 6
That was Sunday, okay? This is Thursday.
ALAN GUEBERT p. 6
Managing climate risk is good business and good for the future
GENE LYONS p. 7
Arkansas keeps trying to return to 1954
JILL RICHARDSON p. 7
A textbook case of environmental injustice
JOHN YOUNG p. 7
Baby talk from the infantile right
THOM HARTMANN p. 9
A new GOP ‘big lie’ plot is in the works
TOM CONWAY p. 10
Going big on infrastructure
JOSEPH B. ATKINS p. 10
Organizing in the South is still a long haul
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Want to reform policing? Start by making them good listeners.
DEAN BAKER p. 11
A two-year shortage of semi-conductors is not a supply chain problem
JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 11
An alternative corporate tax increase
JEFF BRYANT p. 12
Where did the federal government’s charter school program go wrong?
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 12
Humanity faces a climate emergency — shouldn’t that be news?
SONALI KOLHATKAR p. 13
Why Republicans are betting the farm on attacking transgender people
ROBERT REICH p. 13
Biden’s industrial policy is the key to his economic restructuring
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Republicans pose as the party of working people
ROBERTO Dr. CINTLI RODRIGUEZ p. 14
Police killings before, during and after George Floyd
DICK POLMAN p. 14
Trump’s Kremlin collusion scandal is inextricably linked to GOP’s authoritarian mission
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Why not national health insurance?
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Guns out of control
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 15
One guilty verdict won’t fix a rotten system
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Broken clocks are right twice a day
JOHN BUELL p. 16
Battling Amazon is a matter of life and death
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 16
Washington state’s new temporary worker law
JUAN COLE p. 17
We could have greened half the US electrical grid with $2.26T wasted on Afghan war
N. GUNASEKARAN p. 17
US Asian policy distracts the core issues
IMANI COUNTESS p. 17
Thinking globally about racial justice
JOE CONASON p. 18
How to survive a global pandemic
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
Floyd trial’s truth: Notes from a Baltimore jail
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 18
The miracle of Bidenomics
RALPH NADER p. 19
Alert reporters facing the void!
TED RALL p. 19
Afghanistan under the Taliban: It won’t be like last time
BOOK REVIEW/Heather Seggel p. 20
Keep it under wraps
ROB PATTERSON p. 20
‘Nomadland’ profiles life on the road
SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 20
Tik Tok Biden
MOVIE REVIEW/Ed Rampell p. 21
Greta Thunberg’s quest to ‘listen to the science’
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Super League was felled by mass resistance and mass revulsion
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
George Floyd, Cariol Horne, and the duty to intervene
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
This whiteness of being
EUGENE ROBINSON p. 23
Chauvin’s conviction shouldn’t feel like a victory. But it does.
REBEKAH ENTRALGO p. 23
Labor laws need new teeth
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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This page posted April 29, 2021