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COVER/Robert Kuttner p. 1
The rural turnaround
EDITORIAL p. 2
Testing democracy
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Lessons from the midterm elections.
You have a Constitutional right to vote. Right?
FRANK LINGO p. 3
COP27: Get real on climate chaos
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
MEL GURTOV p. 4
Post-election caution
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Poverty and the holidays
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Would you like chips with that?
DISPATCHES p. 5
Special counsel named to lead Trump criinal probes, Trump says he won’t “partake.”
It took House GOP just one day to show why Dems need to bomb-proof everything while they can.
Austin labor council urges end to Medicare privatization.
GOP civil war in House and Senate escalates as factions splinter.
Ballot initiatives targeting inequality won big on election day ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Trumpian carnage goes on full display
ART CULLEN p. 6
Iowa goes its own direction
ALAN GUEBERT p. 6
And the numbers prove it
GENE LYONS p. 7
Classroom litter boxes, cat translators and other myths
SARAH ANDERSON p. 7
This year, voters made an end un around out of touch politicians
JOHN YOUNG p. 7
‘Real freedom won tonight’
DICK POLMAN p. 9
Swing state voters fumigated the MAGA pests who were gnawing the Democratic woodwork
JOE CONASON p. 9
Will Murdoch take down Trump?
MITCHELL ZIMMERMAN p. 9
GOP won’t dump Trumpism anytime soon
TOM CONWAY p. 10
Watching workers’ backs on trade
SHAILLY GUPTA BARNES p. 10
How low-income voters shaped the midterm elections
GENE NICHOL p. 10
An answered call
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
The antisemitism Kyrie Irving spread — and why an apology isn’t enough
DEAN BAKER p. 11
The crushing health care cost burden that never came
THOM HARTMANN p. 12
Have Zoomers ushered in the fourth turning?
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 12
How to end the war in Ukraine? Sit down and talk. It’s time.
SONALI KOLHATKAR p. 13
Democrats didn’t win — they simply held the line
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
Musk, Trump, and the demeaning of America
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Herschel Walker would be a sorry senator
DR. CINTLI p. 14
The face of the two Americas
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
The saga of the revolving door, the steep staircase, the narrow doorway ...
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Fountain pens: To put a fine point on shrinking checks
JOHN L. MICEK p. 15
Pennsylvania voters rejected MAGA extremism
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
The economics of immigration
RICHARD D. WOLFF p. 16
How deficit spending scam brought down Britain’s prime minister
JUAN COLE p. 17
As Biden touts progress at COP27, national assessment warns that the things Americans love are endangered by climate emergency
N. GUNASEKARAN p. 17
The assertion of global south in geopolitics
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
Voters verdict: End of the Trump era
BARRY FRIEDMAN p. 18
My father and Sarah Palin
SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 18
The lost elan of Elon Musk
RALPH NADER p. 19
Dems need to fire their corporate-conflicted political consultants
TED RALL p. 19
Only Biden can stop this political dumpster fire redux
ENNEDITH LOPEZ p. 19
Young voters delivered big wins for abortion rights
REBECCA LAWTON p. 20
It’s never too late to save a river
ROB PATTERSON p. 20
Picking and grinning at 2022’s end
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 20
California academic workers strike University of California Campuses
FILM REVIEW/Ed Rampell p. 21
Piece de Resistance: New opera opposes white supremacy
DAVE ZIRIN p. 21
The NBA’s hypocrisies are sabotaging its response to Kyrie Irving
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Lost and damaged: The UN’s COP27 Climate Summit
BONNIE JEAN FELDKAMP p. 22
It’s up to you to see the good happening around you
DANA MILBANK p. 23
At Trump’s angry announcement, the magic is gone
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