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COVER/Jolie McCullough p. 1
Texas’ border operation is meant to deter cartels and smugglers. More often, it imprisons lone men for trespassing.
EDITORIAL p. 2
Fight fascism at home and abroad
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Supreme thieves disguised in robes of ‘justice.’
Truck drivers hijacked by immoral corporate bosses.
Our privacy rights are being sold, stolen and stripped.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Madison Cawthorn: Rogue Republican
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Searching for truth in Ukraine
DISPATCHES p. 5
Jared Kushner got $2 billion in Saudi invesment despite ‘unsatisfactory busiess operations.’
Which one is the party of pedophiles?
Despite Big Oil roadblocks, poll shows majority in US supports climate action.
Voters who received child tax credit in 2021 now favor GOP, thanks to Joe Manchin.
Paying Fox viewers to watch CNN makes them less gullible.
Trump says he’s ‘most honest human being.’
FROMA HARROP p. 6
War in Ukraine causes worry for bread baskets everywhere
ART CULLEN p. 6
Bruised political warrior urges Iowa to stand and fight
ALAN GUEBERT p. 6
Twenty-five hundred gallons of water per bushel of irrigated corn is ‘too much’
GENE LYONS p. 7
What has happened to us?
BRITNIE REMER p. 7
Lessons about poverty in America’s heartland
JOHN YOUNG p. 7
So, GOP, now lying is disqualifying?
JOSEPH B. ATKINS p. 9
Unions arise in what newsrooms remain in the US
TOM CONWAY p. 10
Taxing billionaires the right way
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 10
Biden and the billionaire tax
FRANK LINGO p. 10
Earth Day: Short time to change
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Ukrainians at the US border pose a challenge to Title 42
DEAN BAKER p. 11
March jobs report shows good news on inflation
THOM HARTMANN p. 12
Cut out the middlemen and get your energy straight from the sun
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 12
As prices soar, we need action — not spin
SONALI KOLHATKAR p. 13
How to make housing as a human right a reality
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
Amazon workers’ astounding win, and how corporate America is trying to take back power
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson and Ginni Thomas
DR. CINTLI p. 14
Honoring the Earth, acknowledging the people
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Enough with health-isolationism!
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Medicare disadvantage
ROBERT P. ALVAREZ p. 15
A five-alarm emergency for democracy
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Good, bad and ugly in Ukraine
ERIC BOEHLERT p. 16
Why is the press rooting against Biden?
JASON SIBERT p. 16
Whose police will come after Russian invaders?
JUAN COLE p. 17
Zelensky says Russia is the new ISIL: Top 3 ways he may be right
BOB BURNETT p. 17
Ukraine: What have we learned?
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
Racing away from our past with Judge Jackson
BARRY FRIEDMAN p. 18
Ted, we hardly knew ye
JOE CONASON p. 18
The ‘soft on crime’ party
RALPH NADER p. 19
Going for big watch on big budgets
TED RALL p. 19
Biden is making fools out of progressive democrats
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 20
‘Socialist Register’ takes the measure of neoliberal capitalism
ROB PATTERSON p. 20
Linklater brings back the moon shot era with ‘Apollo 10 1/2’
SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 20
No contest
ED RAMPELL p. 21
The revolutionary Benjamin Franklin
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
The bad aftertaste of the NCAA men’s tournament
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
We need a uniform standard of justice, from Ukraine to Afghanistan
BONNIE JEAN FELDKAMP p. 22
Spring storms are hard on trees; here’s how to take care of them
DANA MILBANK p. 23
Senate Republicans’s unhealthy fixation on child porn, by the numbers
DICK POLMAN p. 23
The American Psychiatric Association now says that if I grieve beyond one year, I have a mental disorder. Ah, nope.
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