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COVER/ProPublica p. 1
As rail profits soar, blocked crossings force kids to crawl under trains to get to school
EDITORIAL p. 2
Free the debt hostage
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Let’s admit it: The Supreme Court is corrupt. Let’s fix it.
A Republican death star is targeting your liberty.
Steve Rattner explains your life’s purpose for you.
Here’s something good about Texas!
FRANK LINGO p. 3
Biden’s power plants plan
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Biking in the car culture
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
It’s the Farm Bill season
DISPATCHES p. 5
Doctors flee strict abortion ban in Idaho.
Choice supporters hope to put abortion on Florida ballot in 2024.
MAGA is on precipice. Young voters can push them off.
UAW holds off endorsing Biden in bid to ensure pro-worker EV transition.
Biden marks 200th mass shooting with another call for assault weapons ban ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Why do we obsess over transgender issues?
ART CULLEN p. 6
Buying time for biofuels
ALAN GUEBERT p. 6
More greenhouse gas comes from rural leaders than rural America
GENE LYONS p. 7
Biden’s age is a non-issue
SVANTE MYRICK p. 7
Armed and afraid: The high price of fear
JOHN YOUNG p. 7
GOP’s psychotic break with the future
JOE CONASON p. 9
With debt blackmail, McCarthy betrays American again
DICK POLMAN p. 9
Republicans are drafting an ‘autopsy’ about their ‘22 election flops. Guess who they never mention?
TOM CONWAY p. 10
Building safer workplaces
HANK KALET p. 10
Victory at Rutgers, but the fight continues
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
The GOP’s gender hysteria
DEAN BAKER p. 11
Google AI expert warns of massive uptick in productivity growth: No problems with Social Security
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 11
Biden versus ‘Biden’
SONALI KOLHATKAR p. 12
The real reason Disney is defying DeSantis
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 12
Will AI lead to human extinction?
THOM HARTMANN p. 13
America is being exhausted by the fear- and hate-mongers
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
My advice to Biden on debt ceiling faceoff with GOP: Play hard ball
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Who gets the gold and who gets the shaft?
DR. CINTLI p. 14
A weekend with the US ex-president
DANIELLA PRIESHOFF p. 14
Retire this dehumanizing language about immigrants
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
COVID capitalism segues into fraud
SAM URETSKY p. 15
The more things quack
JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 15
The Federal Reserve Board’s collateral damage
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Democracy in jeopardy
RICHARD D. WOLFF p. 16
The emerging new world economy
JUAN COLE p. 17
Lula is right that the UN Security Council can’t resolve major conflicts, whether Ukraine or Palestine
JASON SIBERT p. 17
Cooling Russia’s nuclear threat
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 17
Cold War 2.0: The military-industrial complex survives
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
Springtime for Washington: A smorgasbord
BARRY FRIEDMAN p. 18
Do do Don Ron run
GENE NICHOL p. 18
Democracy resilient
RALPH NADER p. 19
To tax the rich, we need ‘Scranton Joe’ of working people not ‘Delaware Joe’ of Wall Street
TED RALL p. 19
Biden’s re-election campaign begins unimpressively
SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 19
All Tuckered out
TED WILLIAMS p. 20
Killing fish to save frogs
ROB PATTERSON p. 20
Daisy Jones gets it
FARRAH HASSEN p. 20
The artist who taught me about justice
FILM REVIEW/Ed Rampell p. 21
‘The Wind & the Reckoning’
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
and Jules Boykoff
The protests in France are about to collide with the 2024 Paris Olympics
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Sixty years after the Birmingham children’s crusade, youth still fight for racial justice
BONNIE JEAN FELDKAMP p. 22
I’m sick. You’re sick. We’ve all been sick for a year — here’s why.
DANA MILBANK p. 23
It might be time to unload your Treasury bonds
ALEXANDRA PETRI p. 23
At the Sumpreme Court, our code of conduct is ... don’t worry about it
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