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COVER/Thom Hartmann p. 1
The outrageous new way Big Pharma is trying to rip us all off
EDITORIAL p. 2
GOP’s borderline failure
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
How to guarantee a train wreck.
Tracking Norfolk Southern’s derailment.
Why are we letting for-profit health care kill us?
Sick? Injured? Dying? Call Wall Street!
FRANK LINGO p. 3
Wind farms should tread carefully
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Satire: Just a tool for democracy
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMIllen p. 5
Chinese balloons come and go down
DISPATCHES p. 5
Trump to his followers: I am your retribution.
Don Jr. confirms ‘Dark Brandon’ has been living in Trump’s head.
Poll finds majority of US voters want Fed to stop raising rates before it tanks economy.
Major US oil companies raked in $290 billion in profits last year.
‘New’ House Republican energy plan: Drill, baby, drill.
Trump has a vision for the future, and it’s ‘The Jetsons.’
Florida Republicans want to keep track of bloggers ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
I was a teenage librarian. Don’t arrest me.
ART CULLEN p. 6
Farm Bill could be a rare accomplishment for a divided Congress
ALAN GUEBERT p. 6
Paying the price for being sick, old, or poor in rural America
GENE LYONS p. 7
M.T. Greene’s ‘national divorce’ just another half-baked fantasy
REBEKAH ENTRALGO p. 7
Rail workers warned us: Greed is dangerous
JOHN YOUNG p. 7
Biden arrives to save planet tied to tracks
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 8
A small victory over Big Pharma / How Monopoly Destroys Democracy
JOE CONASON p. 9
Donald Trump’s doomsday scenario
DICK POLMAN p. 9
The Fox rot starts at the top with Rupert Murdoch
BRITNI CUINGTON p. 9
When companies hire low-wage contractors, they put my life at risk
TOM CONWAY p. 10
Working kids to death
ANDREW MOSS p. 10
A union takes on the housing crisis
DOMENICA GHANEM p. 10
The GOP wants to renegotiate women’s place in the economy
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Nikki Haley denies what daughters of immigrants know
JAKE JOHNSON p. 11
Report shows big insurance profitting massively from Medicare privatization
LES LEOPOLD p. 12
Shareholder capitalism and the cruelty of mass layoffs
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 12
It’s time to end the outrageous militarization of America’s police force
SONALI KOLHATKAR p. 13
Starbucks: Poster child for corporate abuse
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
Two notable presidential conversations with Zelensky
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Greene’s ‘national divorce’ would be disaster for the South
DR. CINTLI p. 14
The consequential debate of 1524: On what it means to be human. Part I.
GENE NICHOL p. 14
Crushing judicial independence in North Carolina
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
The government: Erasing the X in prescribing Buprenorphine
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Republicans prefer to remain fast asleep
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 15
Seeking justice: California’s sterilization compensation program
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Casey Jones meets Hunter Harrison
JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 16
Blowback from stock buybacks
JASON SIBERT p. 16
Authoritarianism vs. liberal democracy
JUAN COLE p. 17
Israeli squatters fire guns, set dozens of fires in Palestinian town, killing one and wounding 100
MEL GURTOV p. 17
The coup in Israel
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
Thinking hard about Ukraine war and peace: One year out
BARRY FRIEDMAN p. 18
Oklahoma’s education horror
SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 18
D-I-V-O-R-C-E
RALPH NADER p. 19
The 20th anniversary of the sociocide of Iraq by Bush/Cheney
TED RALL p. 19
Ron DeSantis has a secret weapon. He’s a master of wedge issues.
DAVE MARSTON p. 20
Colorado conflicted about cutting its water use
ROB PATTERSON p. 20
The rich have their uses
PETER FUNT p. 20
Viewers should ask, what’s up with docs?
FILM REVIEW/Ed Rampell p. 21
‘Ithaka’ makes a personal appeal to free Assange
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
The new era of backlash in sports and politics
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Malcolm X: His struggle continues
BONNIE JEAN FELDKAMP p. 22
Women’s History Month: Love, loss and the everyday women who raised me
DANA MILBANK p. 23
George Santos speaks the truth!
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