The Progressive POPULIST

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April 15, 2022 -- Volume 28, Number 7


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COVER/Thom Hartmann p. 1
GOP’s new plan would raise taxes on working people and end Social Security and Medicare

EDITORIAL p. 2
The GOP patriot game

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Who’s in control?
A Rube Goldberg inflationary spiral.
FRANK LINGO p. 3
We’re out of our trees

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
LINDSAY OWENS p. 4
It’s not just inflation — it’s price gouging

DON ROLLINS p. 4
Foster care: Picking up the slack

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Choose your bullies wisely

DISPATCHES p. 5
Oil prices down, gas prices up — Big Oil gets a pass.
Poll shows 80% of US voters support windfall profits tax on Big Oil.
CFPB gets billions in medical debt wiped from credit reports.
Trump aide reportedly authored report that anchored Trump election fraud lies.
Soldiers deployed for Greg Abbott’s border stunt were sent to ranches owned by rich Texans.
GOP attacks transgender youth from every possible angle.
Senatorial speeches at beginning of Supreme Court nomination hearings should be canned...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Has Ukraine made us hit bottom on our addiction to oil?
ART CULLEN p. 6
Dems giving up on Iowa

ALAN GUEBERT p. 6
Coming war for US crop acres renews food-vs.-fuel fight

GENE LYONS p. 7
Looking for more marinas
LINDSAY KOSHGARIAN p. 7
Our military budget is more lopsided than ever

JOHN YOUNG p. 7
It’s all about you, Gov. DeSantis

CHUCK COLLINS p. 8
Cracking down on Russian oligarchs means cracking down on US tax havens

WENONAH HAUTER p. 8
Fossil fuels cause global crises, don’t fix them

HAL CROWTHER p. 9
From the wreckage of Ukraine, can we salvage anything positive?

TOM CONWAY p. 10
Uniting for Ukraine

BOB BURNETT p. 10
The new world of oil

MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
How will history judge our response to Ukraine?
DEAN BAKER p. 11
Supply chain problems continue as inflation jumps in February
JOEL D. JOSPEH p. 11
Ease the oil pain by suspending gasoline taxes

SONALI KOLHATKAR p. 12
If high gas prices are so painful, shouldn’t we move away from fossil fuels?
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 12
How to avoid a new Cold War and focus on what America really needs
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 13
The end of globalism
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
How to stop big oil from profiteering off Putin?
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Who will stand for peace?
DR. CINTLI p. 14
The fog and smog of war

PAYAL SINHA p. 14
The federal backlog that’s hurting immigrants — and our economy

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Misogyny redux

SAM URETSKY p. 15
Breaking the news

REBEKAH ENTRALGO p. 15
Addressing racial inequality in paid leave policy

WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Son of Stalin

ERIC BOEHLERT p. 16
Gas price coverage gives big oil a pass
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 16
They are all like us
JUAN COLE p. 17
US would be on firmer ground declaring Putin a war criminal if George W. Bush had been tried
N. GUNASEKARAN p. 17
The politics of climate risk adaptation

JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
Trump pecked and plucked, feather by feather
BARRY FRIEDMAN p. 18
Horodenka, Ukraine-Poland-USSR-Germany-Austria

JOE CONASON p. 18
Putin’s target is America
RALPH NADER p. 19
Going for tax reform big time
TED RALL p. 19
Afghanistan, not Ukraine, is the biggest humanitarian crisis
DICK POLMAN p. 20
Sarah Bloom Raskin: A casualty of our refusal to confront climate change

ROB PATTERSON p. 20
Writing on the web

SETH SANDRONSKY p. 20
California’s drought worsens

FILM REVIEW/Ed Rampell p. 21
‘A song for Cesar’ tells the story of the labor movement in the 1960s
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Baseball is back
TODD WILKERSON p. 21
Let’s not squander the miracle of Yellowstone
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
War criminals must be held accountable, whether in Russia, the US or elsewhere
BONNIE JEAN FELDKAMP p. 22
Prior authorization is part of what’s wrong with out health care system
DANA MILBANK p. 23
Biden heeded Republicans’ pleas to ban Russian oil. Then they pounced.
SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 23
‘BetterHelp’ for Putin

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