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COVER/Hal Crowther p. 1
How close were you? The lone gunman approaches
EDITORIAL p. 2
Trump the fascist Joker
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Corporate giants say you don’t mind their price gouging. Do you?
Woody Guthrie’s anthem mocking right-wing republicanism.
Here’s a wild idea that’s taking root.
Voters reject the illiberal bigotry of Moms 4 Liberty.
Why ‘Supreme Court Ethics’ is an oxymoron.
When and where was the first Thanksgiving feast.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Prison for the holidays
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Boomer pols: Be more like the Carters
DISPATCHES p. 5
More jobs drop unemployment rate further.
Study shows corporate profiteering ‘amplified’ global inflation.
It’s high time, as 6 Democratic governors urge DEA to reschedule marijuana by year-end.
Rural jobs grew in September, but still lag.
Senate Republicans hand Putin victory.
Chattanooga VW workers announce push to join UAW.
FROMA HARROP p. 6
What happens if anti-vaxxers just face the consequences?
ART CULLEN p. 6
Woke made Sen. Ernst choke
ALAN GUEBERT p. 6
Soybeans’ big players looking to a bruising year ahead
GENE LYONS p. 7
The hypocrisy is strong with these two
SONALI KOLHATKAR p. 7
The high cost of low holiday prices
JOHN YOUNG p. 7
How extortion machine fueled the Big Lie
KAZMYN RAMOS p. 8
The importance of home
DICK POLMAN p. 9
Trump’s tenure “did not bestow on him the divine right of kings to evade the crimial accountability that governs his fellow citizens.”
JOE CONASON p. 9
What the numbers now tell about Biden’s economy
DAVID McCALL p. 10
Workers need a fighting chance
LES LEOPOLD p. 10
Wall Street or the working class: The Democrats must choose
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 suffers another blow
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 11
Charlie Peters and the odyssey of neoliberalism
MARC G. RATCLIFF p. 11
The poignant path to despotism
THOM HARTMANN p. 12
If Democrats ran red states fewer people would die
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 12
Russian fate: A memoir I’ll never write
SARAH ANDERSON p. 13
Scraping away the anti-worker, anti-racial equity vestiges of the Reagan era
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
America’s anxiety disorder
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
The humanitarian disaster in Gaza
JOSEPH B. ATKINS p. 14
Keeping the line to heaven
WALTER EINENKEL p. 14
Rep. James Corner’s newest ‘smoking gun’ debunked in record time
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Dangerous ideas need stiffling
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Congress finally agrees on George Santos
FRANK LINGO p. 15
Climate conference offers little hope
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Refugee roulette in Israel
JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 16
Henry Kissinger made the biggest mistakes in U.S. history
JAN SCHAKOWSKY p. 16
Hey House GOP, keep hands off Social Security and Medicare!
JUAN COLE p. 17
Palestinian-Israeli leader Mansour Abbas calls for nonviolent struggle; says Hamas’s Oct. 7 atrocity blasphemed against Islamic values
JASON SIBERT p. 17
Second Cold War will have no winners, except arms makers
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
Haley best to vie vs. Trump — and Biden
BARRY FRIEDMAN p. 18
If Biden were Trump
LINDSAY KOSHGARIAN p. 18
The Pentagon just can’t pass an audit
RALPH NADER p. 19
Israeli government’s mass terrorism fortified by Biden and Congress
TED RALL p. 19
Cut Israel loose
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 19
Private employers hired 103,000 new workers in November; pay growth decelerates
SAVANNAH ROSE p. 20
Outrage in Wyoming erupts over public land auction
ROB PATTERSON p. 20
Finally sold on reading Ebooks
ALEXANDRA PETRI p. 20
The passion of George Santos
MOVIE REVIEW/Ed Rampell p. 21
Polynesian happiness on the soccer field of dreams
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
How Zionism feeds antisemitism
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Carbon colonialism, COP28 and the climate crisis
BONNIE JEAN FELDKAMP p. 22
Remember who Christmas traditions are really for: The kids
DANA MILBANK p. 23
The last temptation of George Santos
GENE NICHOL p. 23
The expanded NC Republican sedition caucus
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