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COVER/Hal Crowther p. 1
A very American tragedy
EDITORIAL p. 2
Don’t buckle to terrorists
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Let’s admit it: The Supreme Court is corrupt and clueless.
Is your lush, green lawn killing mother nature?
FRANK LINGO p. 3
Lies that damage Earth
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Dianne Feinstein’s botched send-off
CRISTA V. WORTHY p. 5
Banning books is for bullies
DISPATCHES p. 5
GOP ‘Fair Tax’ proposal is anything but.
House GOP fracturesover first immigration-related proposal.
More than 70% of Dems back government-run universal healthcare: poll..
Watchdogs warn House GOP bill owuld ‘lock in another century of oil and gas.
Trump goes full QAnon, offers one of his resorts for conspiracists’ spring conference.
Pelosi office trespasser says his conviction was unfair because jury members ‘weren’t peers ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Egg prices are already cracking
ART CULLEN p. 6
I think I know what my old man would have said
ALAN GUEBERT p. 6
Any new Farm Bill must navigate the unruly 2023 House GOP — again
GENE LYONS p. 7
Academic drama, meet unsubstantiated Islamophobia
FARRAH HASSEN p. 7
Beyond the ‘border crisis’
JOHN YOUNG p. 7
‘Servants of the damned’ tend to get their way
SARAH ANDERSON p. 8
America’s inequality problem in one statistic
JENNIFER GOLLAN p. 9
Websites selling abortion pills are sharing sensitive data with Google
TOM CONWAY p. 10
Building the essential supply chain
DICK POLMAN p. 10
MAGA house plots to stop Uncle Sam from paying bills, because this is what extortionists do
MITCHELL ZIMMERMAN p. 10
Republicans turn to mugging Social Security
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Grovel to anti-vaxxers first, apologize to grieving families later
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 11
Turning the debt ceiling crisis against McCarthy’s Republicans
THOM HARTMANN p. 12
Will Americans embrace the politics of fear or trust?
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 12
The congressional progressive caucus expands
SONALI KOLHATKAR p. 13
Fighting the imposter syndrome
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
Back to another horrible, hellish, horrendous, totally absurd battle over the debt ceiling
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Celebrating Dr. King
DR. CINTLI p. 14
Normalization of killings is not normal; neither is invisibilization
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
The business of optimism, or health-hype
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Artificial intelligence still needs some work
WENDELL POTTER p. 15
Here is the truth: Medicare Advantage is neither Medicare nor an advantage
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
False equivalence
JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 16
Five reasons there will not be a recession in 2023 in the United States
GENE NICHOL p. 16
Women and low-income work
JUAN COLE p. 17
With electric vehicles, 90% of Americans would see transportation costs, CO2 emissions plummet
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 17
California prison spending grows as incarcerated population falls
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
The three women of San Francisco
BARRY FRIEDMAN p. 18
Money and mediocrity in the NCAA
JOE CONASON p. 18
Kevin McCarthy is no ‘Mainstream Moderate’
RALPH NADER p. 19
Are the new congressional progressives real?
TED RALL p. 19
Burn after reading: Why classified documents don’t matter
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 20
Labor militancy is in the air
ROB PATTERSON p. 20
George & Tammy: They couldn’t hold on
SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 20
Allemande left and do si do
FILM REVIEW/Ed Rampell p. 21
‘On Sacred Ground’
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Damar Hamlin’s pain is not a feel-good story
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Lies, damn lies, and climate change
BONNIE JEAN FELDKAMP p. 22
Why your child’s personality should determine how you parent
DANA MILBANK p. 23
Can you govern on a lie? House Republicans give it a try.
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