The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
February 15, 2023 -- Volume 29, Number 3


TABLE OF CONTENTS

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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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