The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
August 15, 2022 -- Volume 28, Number 14


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COVER/Andrea Suozzo p. 1
Right-wing think tank Family Research Council is now a church in eyes of the IRS
EDITORIAL p. 2
Put the Big Liar in jail

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Beware: The GOP has chosen to embrace the crazy.
The Sunshine State’s dark bully
FRANK LINGO p. 3
Take emergency action on climate

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Wokeness: Still a discussion worth having
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
No summer break from anger

DISPATCHES p. 5
Pence’s former chief of staff appeared before federal grand jury.
Trump’s Secret Service agents who disputed Hutchinson testimony lawyer up, refuse to testify.
Dems gain, Repubs falter as months tick toward November.
Progressives win small victories at USPS.
Extremist Supreme Court majority unifies most Americans against it in one term.
Big Oil quick to boost gas prices, but slow to drop them.
Half of US seniors can’t afford basic expenses ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Even for techies, work from home is only a remote possibility
ART CULLEN p. 6
Ain’t nobody here but us caricatures

ALAN GUEBERT p. 6
Our money, their mouth, your choice
GENE LYONS p. 7
Abortion bullies stumble around the truth
JOHN GEYMAN p. 7
Harm is done to women and girls by overturning of Roe by an uninformed, uncaring and politicized Supreme Court

JOHN YOUNG p. 7
Agents of chaos and criminality

ROBERT KUTTNER p. 9
Federally funded clinics versus anti-choice zealots
JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 9
Stop the fed from harming the economy

TOM CONWAY p. 10
Why workers are turning to unions
MICHAEL LUX p. 10
Something bubbling in the heartland
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
What if ‘The Donald’ hadn’t cheated on Ivana?
DEAN BAKER p. 11
The fed should not allow itself to get bullied into bringing on a recession
TED WILLIAMS p. 11
The ‘Keystone Pipeline’ wouldn’t make gas any cheaper
THOM HARTMANN p. 12
Where did the religious nuttery come from?
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 12
Save local news. Our democracy depends on it.
SONALI KOLHATKAR p. 13
Don’t normalize Trump’s enablers
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
The Republican Party: God, guns, forced birth and strongmen
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Injustice of Emmett Till’s murder resonates to this day
DR. CINTLI p. 14
From here and from there
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Medical debt: America’s own circle of hell

SAM URETSKY p. 15
Republicans try to deep six democracy

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 15
Seeking domestic bliss

WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Democratic denouement

DICK POLMAN p. 16
The GOP’s nutcase candidates stoke Democratic hopes of holding onto the US Senate

JUAN COLE p. 17
In Saudi Arabia, Biden plays defense against Russia, China, Iran
N. GUNASEKARAN p. 17
Rekindling Cold War-era with bloc confrontation
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
Trump’s knots and dots: It’s all over
BARRY FRIEDMAN p. 18
Hoping for Trump
MITCHELL ZIMMERMAN p. 18
How to prevent an American theocracy

RALPH NADER p. 19
Students, campuses and dominant corporate power
TED RALL p. 19
What’s worse than inflation? Fighting inflation.
JOE CONASON p. 19
Bannon reveals plot against America
JOSEPH B. ATKINS p. 20
Weimar America

ROB PATTERSON p. 20
Is TV’s recent golden age waning?
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 20
Small business gears up to protect and strengthen democracy

MOVIE REVIEW/Ed Rampell p. 21
Indigenous and Japanese American activists unite to fight the power

EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Reality bites but Gen X can still fight back
SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 21
Alert! Monkey Pox attacking conservatives
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
In Post-Roe America, a grave miscarriage of justice proliferates
BONNIE JEAN FELDKAMP p. 22
How anti-abortion laws complicate medical degrees in women’s health
DANA MILBANK p. 23
How Republican leaders broke Americans’ confidence
GENE NICHOL p. 23
Bingham and Madison and original intent

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