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COVER/Bonny Gardner p. 1
Wake up, Democrats! Address Blue-Collar grievances
EDITORIAL p. 2
‘GOP’ turns to Stalinism
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
How to play Monopoly.
Manufactured meat.
Team greed plays big-time sports!
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Blazing trails, breaching walls
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Don’t let the anti-vaxxers bring you down
DISPATCHES p. 5
Scared Trump sues to end New York Attorney General’s investigation.
David Cay Johnston says Trump will be indicted in New York.
Kinzinger: House Jan. 6 Committee is conducting a criminal investigation of Trump.
House Committee: Trump deliberately suppressed COVID data.
Five Republican governors demand COVID vax exemptions for their National Guards.
Socialist handily beats Right-Winger in Chile ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Who can blame Charlie Baker for not running again?
BEN LONG p. 6
Responsible gun owners need to be heard
ALAN GUEBERT p. 6
Tyson Foods: Meatpacking isn’t for chickens anymore
GENE LYONS p. 7
Media histrionics vs. reality
JILL RICHARDSON p. 7
What a debate over grizzly bears shows about politics
JOHN YOUNG p. 7
The flag of the whiny anti-masker
ART CULLEN p. 8
Anger, despair are appropriate responses to the demise of rural America
ROGER BYBEE p. 9
Republicans are arrayed against democracy
GENE NICHOL p. 9
North Carolina attempts to re-take the lead
TOM CONWAY p. 10
Building back OSHA
DICK POLMAN p. 10
Fox News’ abetters of fascism: What did they know (plenty), and when did they stop knowing it?
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 10
College and university labor militancy grows
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Of tomatoes, changing science and twisted politics
DEAN BAKER p. 11
Will we see deflation in the next 12 months?
JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 11
A tale of two industries
SONALI KOLHATKAR p. 12
Don’t blame benefits for inflation — blame the global economy
KRISTEN OLSEN p. 12
Which side is Manchin on?
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 12
Biden’s at-home coronavirus test program epitomizes our public health failures
THOM HARTMANN p. 13
Are we standing on the edge of a grand new progressive era?
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
One small step for Starbucks workers, giant leap for workers across America
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
American democracy is under siege
DR. CINTLI p. 14
Apartheid and the great American experiment
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Television hits: Red State/FD, MED, PD
SAM URETSKY p. 15
All donors matter (but recurring donors matter more)
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Democratic devolution
ERIC BOEHLERT p. 16
Slow-walking the coup PowerPoint: Blueprint for sabotage
JASON SIBERT p. 16
Time to bring nuclear arms under control
JUAN COLE p. 17
Rejecting Biden pressure to distance itself from China, Emirates suspends $23 bn F-35 deal
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 17
The narrow path to averting war over Ukraine
JOE CONASON p. 18
Trump’s coup plot, in 38 sickening slides
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
Seven senators who go back to Civil War days
BARRY FRIEDMAN p. 18
Dave Chappelle, James Carville, and the persons in the sauna
RALPH NADER p. 19
‘Trump’s next coup has already begun: January 6 was practice.’
TED RALL p. 19
Say you ain’t running again, Joe
BOOK REVIEW/Heather Seggel p. 20
Holding change
ROB PATTERSON p. 20
Getting back to what happened to the Beatles
SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 20
Dancing with the Stars, killer style
FILM REVIEW/Ed Rampell p. 21
New ‘West Side Story’ film applies the iconic musical to modern-day issues
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
The year in sports: Athletes face backlash but refuse to back down
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
The climate catastrophe, from Kentucky to Kampala
BONNIE JEAN FELDKAMP p. 22
Why parents shouldn’t rely on Santa for big Christmas gifts
DANA MILBANK p. 23
The media treats Biden as badly as — or worse than — Trump. Here’s proof.
Bulldogs of Benghazi roll over for insurrectionists.
FRANK LINGO p. 23
Hopeful green inventions
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