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COVER/Hal Crowther p. 1
Without shame or restraint: Republicans sink to new depths
EDITORIAL p. 2
The GOP’s Big Lie closers
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
The Monopoly-go-round. The lie of shareholder hegemony.
FRANK LINGO p. 3
Alarming losses of animal life
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Raising steady kids in unsteady times
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Inflation Reduction Act contains much for rural areas to celebrate
DISPATCHES p. 5
To keep water in the rivers, Biden’s plan is capitalism.
Mar-A-Lago documents held secrets about Iranian missiles and intel operations in China.
Biden goes Dark Brandon on MAGA Republican hypocrisy around student debt.
Abbott blames Beto for bail bond gone bad.
Judge who ruled against Consumer Financial Protection Bureau took Wall Street cash.
Judge’s ruling takes Trump one step closer to indictment on conspiracy charge ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Election-denying veterans are unusually dishonorable
ART CULLEN p. 6
No place you would want to be is safer than Iowa
ALAN GUEBERT p. 6
Ag policy was about cultural stability, not endless market growth
GENE LYONS p. 7
As Little Rock violence goes, so goes the nation
SHAILLY GUPTA BARNES p. 7
War on immigrants is war on all poor and low-income Americans
JOHN YOUNG p. 7
The Big Lie by the numbers
DICK POLMAN p. 8
Damaged beyond a reasonable doubt: “I don’t want people to know that we lost.”
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 9
Industrial policy: Now comes the hard part
TOM CONWAY p. 10
Bringing workers’ sensibility to local government
JOHN GEYMAN p. 10
Whoever said Republicans fight inflation better than Democrats?
PETER CERTO p. 10
Republican ‘solutions’ will make inflation worse
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
GOP to student loan debtors — ‘Not on our watch’
DEAN BAKER p. 11
Inflation, inflation, inflation and Social Security
SONALI KOLHATKAR p. 12
What Social Security should really be paying to survive in this economy
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 12
Why the economy is the dominant issue for Democrats in the midterms
THOM HARTMANN p. 13
When will the victims of oil companies’ lies get their day in court?
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
The Kanye West paradox: How to treat noxious content on social media?
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Oppose Kroger and Albertsons merger
DR. CINTLI p. 14
The H word: Violence against the spirit
SARAH BARON p. 14
Raise corporate taxes, not interest rates
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
To entitle or not to entitle: A Hamlet moment for Medicaid
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Would-be elites could use a break
JAKE JOHNSON p. 15
Millions set to lose Medicaid, food benefits once public health emergency ends
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
The bifurcated economy
JOE CONASON p. 16
The Saudi gambit to elect Republicans
MARK ANDERSON p. 16
International bankers operate on a level of their own
JUAN COLE p. 17
Did Trump’s attempt to withdraw from Afghanistan and Somalia prove he knew he had lost the election?
JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 17
The Supreme Court has gone off the rails
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
Uncle Andy: Old Hickory and me in history
BARRY FRIEDMAN p. 18
At the end of the show in the Bahamas
SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 18
DART 2.0
RALPH NADER p. 19
Democrats — broaden your campaign messages and strategies!
TED RALL p. 19
Sometimes what a Van Gogh needs is a splash of tomato soup
DAVE MARSTON p. 20
When no home is affordable, where do you live?
ROB PATTERSON p. 20
Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward transformed
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 20
Don’t push ‘Lou’
FILM REVIEW/Ed Rampell p. 21
‘Voodoo Macbeth’: When an all-Black Shakespeare cast made stage history with Orson Welles
DAVE ZIRIN and JULES BOYKOFF p. 21
Merritt Paulson must go
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Medicare for all, a timely prescription
BONNIE JEAN FELDKAMP p. 22
Keep contempt out of your conversations: Our children are watching
DANA MILBANK p. 23
Black voters just love Kari Lake, says Kari Lake
PAUL ARMENTANO p. 23
Biden’s marijuana pardons are a seismic shift
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