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COVER/Topher Sanders, Dan Schwartz and Gabriel Sandoval p. 1
What’s missing from railroad safety data? Dead workers and severed limbs.
EDITORIAL p. 2
Are you better off than Trump?
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Tom Paine: What a guy! Guess What? Americans want to be woke! Sen. Katie Britt plays a cruel political game to exploit a Mexican rape victim. Why are we letting financial hucksters dictate our local news?
FRANK LINGO p. 3
Plastic proliferating on the planet
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
A study in tax dodging
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Who passes the dishwasher test?
DISPATCHES p. 5
Donation to Trump’s RNC is a donation to his lawyers before it’s a donation to is party.
Trump lawsuit against ABC, Stephanopoulos is risky.
Senate map is tough for Dems, but they can beat Ted Cruz and Rick Scott.
Budget proposal shows GOP is ‘party of cutting Social Security and Medicare.’
Trump-in-law calls for ethnic cleansing in Gaza.
FROMA HARROP p. 6
‘Build anything anywhere’ threatens communities
ART CULLEN p. 6
What’s the matter with me?
ALAN GUEBERT p. 6
Meet the ‘barons’ who corrupt your dinner table
JOE CONASON p. 7
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s farce — and our tragedy
SARAH ANDERSON,WILLIAM RICE and ZACHARY TASHMAN p. 7
More for them, less for us
JOHN YOUNG p. 7
Hoax that launched a thousand lies
DICK POLMAN p. 9
The aspiring fascist’s ‘bloodbath’ comment, in the context of the last nine years
GENE NICHOL p. 9
Robert Francis Kennedy Sr. — glimpses of the anti-Trump
DAVID McCALL p. 10
Building America, fighting greed
LES LEOPOLD p. 10
A working class susceptible to Trump needs much more from Biden
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Sen. Katie Britt is not ready for prime time — at least not yet
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 11
Man of steel
THOM HARTMANN p. 12
What Americans and the media are missing about the TikTok crisis
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 12
Keep talking about President Biden’s age
SONALI KOLHATKAR p. 13
Trump plans to make his massive tax cuts for the rich and corporations permanent
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
Trump wants to destroy Social Security, but Biden plan would improve and expand it
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Schools are a measure of the health of our democracy
KEN WINKES p. 14
Physician, heal our health care
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Our bodies, our minds: The big bubble
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Memory can be a fleeting thing for the elderly
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Reflections on the new American pastime
JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 16
Solomonic justice in Georgia
MATTHEW ROSING p. 16
We can break the cycle of poverty, mental illness and prison
JUAN COLE p. 17
UN and EU slam Israel for imposing on Palestinians ‘levels of food insecurity never recorded anywhere in the world’
KENT PATERSON p. 17
Mexico poised to elect first woman president
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
A tale of two contagions
BARRY FRIEDMAN p. 18
Outrage and lip service
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 18
Facts against industrial farming
RALPH NADER p. 19
Israel’s right-wing wants all the Palestinian land — and this explaims its state terrorism
TED RALL p. 19
Health care is a human right
CLINT McKNIGHT p. 20
Freed wolves move into their old niche
ROB PATTERSON p. 20
My TV I Love Lucy is worsley
FILM REVIEW/Ed Rampell p. 20
On the Christian trail: Dramatizing the story of the first Black woman presidential candidate
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
The future of college sports is unionized
SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 21
The great embryo imbroglio
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Aching Rafah: Gaza, 21 years after the killing of Rachel Corrie
BONNIE JEAN FELDKAMP p. 22
We must show up and do better for our communities
E.J. DIONNE Jr. p. 23
Schumer said out loud what many of Israel’s friends are thinking
ALEXANDRA PETRI p. 23
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