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COVER/Reed Abelson, NYT p. 1
and Jordan Rau, KFF Health News
Facing financial ruin as costs soar for elder care
EDITORIAL p. 2
Steady Joe vs. Lyin’ Don
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
The billionaires behind school privatization. How things work: Congress’ revolving door. Astonishing: A trailer park story with a happy ending! Humanities humanize our society. So ‘kill ‘em,’ say right wingers.
FRANK LINGO p. 3
Mother trees: Wisdom of the forest
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
The modified servant model
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Too many people with too few resources fuel war
DISPATCHES p. 5
Trump mocks Jimmy Carter, continues fascist rhetoric, vowing to drive out the globalists.
Trump’s decline has flown under the radar.
‘No Labels’ is all grift.
UAW clinches record deals with Big 3, turns to organizing Tesla and foreign automakers.
Federal government is funded. What’s next?
Ohio GOP plans to gut constitutional amendment protecting abortion rights ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Actually, Biden is ‘polling’ really well
ART CULLEN p. 6
Food and peace
ALAN GUEBERT p. 6
Don’t just bury the CO2 pipelines; bury their very idea
GENE LYONS p. 7
Weather forecasters are right more often than political predictors
CHRISTINA JEMENEZ p. 7
I help seniors get health care. Shouldn’t I be able to afford my own?
JOHN YOUNG p. 7
Tongue-tied on reproductive rights
DICK POLMAN p. 9
Trump channels Adolf, vowing to ‘root out’ the ‘vermin.’ That’s Nazi talk. Wake up, America.
JOE CONASON p. 9
The mighty achievements of Joe Manchin
DAVID McCALL p. 10
Jobs today, jobs tomorrow
LES LEOPOLD p. 10
The UAW’s game changer: The right to strike over mass layoffs
BILAL BAYDOUN p. 10
How to make America more affordable
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Insistence alone won’t erase the antisemitism of ‘From the river to the sea’
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 11
The next insulin scandal
THOM HARTMANN p. 12
Democrats can win by confronting crime
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 12
Remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire
SONALI KOLHATKAR p. 13
Seeing through the economic bait and switch
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
The Supreme Court’s new ‘code of ethics’ changes nothing
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
It is time to stop in Gaza
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
The case of home dialysis, or when money supports inertia
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Immovable force blocks military promotions
GENE NICHOL p. 15
Doing the impossible: Separating politics and race in North Carolina
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
A tale of two motion pictures
JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 16
Plastic pollution is an existential threat to humans
JUAN COLE p. 17
Human-caused climate change cost U.S. $67 billion, produced hottest 12 months for 125,000 years
ROBERT C. KOEHLER p. 17
Militarism vs. our shared humanity
FARRAH HASSEN p. 17
Americans want a ceasefire. It’s our politicians who are out of touch.
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
Washington diary watch: All’s not well
BARRY FRIEDMAN p. 18
If Biden loses, blame my wife
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 18
Private employers hire 113,000 new workers in October; pay growth slows
RALPH NADER p. 19
Worries from a major auto dealer about all electric cars
TED RALL p. 19
It’s not Biden’s age, stupids
ERNIE ATENCIO p. 20
Farewell to two radicals with a common goal — changing the West
ROB PATTERSON p. 20
A perfect song for our troubled times
SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 20
RobbieBot-1, Mike Johnson-0
ED RAMPELL p. 21
‘Rustin’ tells the full story of the March on Washington
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
There is no space in the sports world to call for a free Palestine
ALEXANDRA PETRI p. 21
Congressional fight club is not a thing we need!
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
The undressed wounds of Gaza
BONNIE JEAN FELDKAMP p. 22
The hidden potential of a diamond in the rough
DANA MILBANK p. 23
The House is most definitely not in order
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