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COVER/Hal Crowther p. 1
Amber waves of gain: America the cruel and credulous
EDITORIAL p. 2
Punish the Big Lie Party
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
We’re talking about power.
Push, push, push: How movements succeed
FRANK LINGO p. 3
Gas and nukes not climate solutions
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
MARY C. KING p. 4
Affordable child care is the boost our economy needs
DON ROLLINS p. 4
School funding: One more reason to hold the house
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Story of the year: Farmers fight back
DISPATCHES p. 5
Economy soars, ‘Bad News’ for Biden?
Trump’s Euro golf resorts lose $100M.
Indiana senator says teachers should be impartial when discussing Nazism, fascism.
Trump has been laughing at Jan. 6 victims.
Kevin McCarthy says he’ll kick Dems off House committees if Rs get majority.
Death rates up 40%, life insurance CEO says.
Retiring Republicans could support voting rights—but they wont.
Virginia's new governor shows how Republicanism works in one awful stroke
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FROMA HARROP p. 6
The MeToo defense was beneath her dignity
ART CULLEN p. 6
Hope for democracy has to be more than just sentimentality
ALAN GUEBERT p. 6
Excess farm payments: Keep moving, nothing to see here
GENE LYONS p. 7
Civil war over Trump? Not likely
KAREN DOLAN p. 7
Three reasons to be hopeful as a hard year comes to a close
JOHN YOUNG p. 7
The firestorm when December didn’t come
DICK POLMAN p. 8
Merrick Garland: “We will follow the facts wherever they lead.” Promise?
THOM HARTMANN p. 9
Can’t you see that the overthrow of the entire planet’s ‘liberal order’ is the Republican goal?
TOM CONWAY p. 10
Harm to one is harm to all
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 10
American’s steel spine
JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 10
Congress should arrest Mark Meadows
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Shilling for the Benedict Arnolds of the US Capitol riot
DEAN BAKER p. 11
Good news in 2022 will be the economy
RICHARD D. WOLFF p. 12
A critique of obscene wealth
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 12
What a sensible Ukraine policy would look like
SONALI KOLHATKAR p. 13
How a group of Starbucks workers emerged victorious in their union fight
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
The Potterizing of America: As the Child Tax Credit ends, big corporations (and their CEOs and investors) keep raking it in
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
It is time for Congress to act to defend free elections
DR. CINTLI p. 14
Global chain disruptions in a time of unpardonable lies
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
A life without vaccines
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Higher prices inflate hopes for Republicans
JASON SIBERT p. 15
Pulling out of arms control doesn’t solve anything
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Another woke travesty
ERIC BOEHLERT p. 16
How Biden’s Christmas ‘nightmare’ turned into a gift-giving miracle runaway economy
JUAN COLE p. 17
Biden’s 4 biggest Mideast challenges in 2022
N. GUNASEKARAN p. 17
Corporate profiteering at the expense of vaccine equity
JOE CONASON p. 18
Comical bickering over those ‘Trump vaccines’
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
The 21st Century: A flop so far
BARRY FRIEDMAN p. 18
The smallest woman in the largest apartment
RALPH NADER p. 19
Top reading recommendations
TED RALL p. 19
Student loans: A silent scandal no more
BOB BURNETT p. 20
Mean old world (2021)
MOVIE REVIEW/Seth Sandronsky p. 20
Daughters and mothers
SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 20
The ghost of Build Back Better past and future
FILM REVIEW/Ed Rampell p. 21
Remembering Bishop Tutu at Hawaii
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Antonio Brown is a damning reflection of the NFL
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Biden should stop prosecuting Julian Assange
BONNIE JEAN FELDKAMP p. 22
That one night when my Nashville dreams came true
DANA MILBANK p. 23
Marjorie Taylor Greene is a wart on the body politic. Facebook is a melanoma.
GENE NICHOL p. 23
A life-changing tar heel judicial election
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