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COVER/Elisabeth Rosenthal p. 1
Why are your medical bills so high? Look as your latest hospital merger
EDITORIAL p. 2
Give Bidenomics credit
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Yes, we can stop drug price gouging! Here’s how!
Why are far-right-wing extremists worshiping John C. Calhoun?
Vapid GOP ‘debate’ reveals why big-money politics sucks.
The day the planet started to win.
Consumer alert: Your phone company wants into your bank account!
Jesse James now wears Guccis.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Project 2025: A coup by another name
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Hog and chicken ‘farms’ might move into the city
DISPATCHES p. 5
Rep. Jamie Raskin blows up Republican lies about alleged Biden corruption.
Can Senate Republicans stop House extremists from helping Putin?
Biden’s signature economic policy is paying off.
Why Republicans want to defund IRS.
Red state profs are eyeing the exits as Republican lawmakers get involved in higher education..
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Where do we file Hunter Biden in our mindless politics?
ART CULLEN p. 6
Truth: Mexicans don’t set your pay. They scoop corn.
ALAN GUEBERT p. 6
New, long overdue efforts to reform federal commodity checkoffs
GENE LYONS p. 7
Is Irish American history woke?
OLIVIA ALPERSTEIN p. 7
A crossroads for workers with disabilities
JOHN YOUNG p. 7
Racist designs of the Big Lie players
BRAM SABLE-SMITH p. 8
Funyuns and flu shots? Gas station company ventures into urgent care
DICK POLMAN p. 9
Nikki Haley’s shameless fascist-adjacent flip flops
JOE CONASON p. 9
Trump’s fascist coup, exposed again
SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 9
His very nature
TOM CONWAY p. 10
The power of a first contract
TOM GALLAGHER p. 10
Whatever happened to American populism?
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Film ‘Blue Beetle’ takes a shot as the US Army’s tainted School of the Americas
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 11
The economy: Steady as she goes
FELIX ALLEN p. 11
Don’t blame workers for poor service — blame our CEOs
THOM HARTMANN p. 12
Housing: How do we protect one of the primary essentials of life?
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 12
Where did our public toilets go?
SONALI KOLHATKAR p. 13
Making sense of Florida’s nonsensical history curriculum
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
What we all must try to do if American Democracy is to survive
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
A job for all
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 14
In California, corporate interests fight housing solutions
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
States as countinghouses
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Misinformation on COVID abounds
MARK ANDERSON p. 15
Fixing the economy
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Greedonomics at the supermarket
SAM PIZZIGATI p. 16
The lost art (and joy) of taxing the rich
JUAN COLE p. 17
China’s coup: Saudi and Iranian ambassadors arrive at reopened embassies, stress bilateral relations, regional development
N. GUNASEKARAN p. 17
Israeli judicial reform and decline of democracies in Asia
MITCHELL ZIMMERMAN p. 17
Trump isn’t too big to jail
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
Justice for a January day, at last
BARRY FRIEDMAN p. 18
De Mortuis Nil Nisi Bonum
FRANK LINGO p. 18
My electric car adventure
RALPH NADER p. 19
Mass media: Stop being a Trump megaphone and cover civic critics rebutting him
TED RALL p. 19
The daunting physics of Bidenomics
MARJORIE “SLIM” WOODRUFF p. 20
There’s such a thing as trail etiquette
ROB PATTERSON p. 20
Sorrow for Bruce Willis, the best bartender that ever served me
ED RAMPELL p. 20
Remembering Chile’s coup on film
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
How Nebraska became a volleyball paradise
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
From Alabama to Florida, the fight for the right to vote continues
BONNIE JEAN FELDKAMP p. 22
Giving the whispered conversations of women a full voice
DANA MILBANK p. 23
Biden eats ice cream and pets dogs? Totally unfit to serve.
ALEXANDRA PETRI p. 23
Freedom is beer!
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