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COVER/Hal Crowther p. 1
Tar Heel trauma: Strange times, stranger candidates
EDITORIAL p. 2
Throttle Bibi to beat Trump
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Why big corporations get special tax breaks and you don’t.
How many dead firefighters does it take to ban asbestos?
Should we be polite as the GOP stomps on our democratic rights?
How oily is Big Oil’s latest PR campaign?
FRANK LINGO p. 3
State of the planet 2024
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Oxymorons and why the Dems need ‘em after all
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
CAFOs slim down, but that’s not good news is rural areas
DISPATCHES p. 5
US is still at ‘full employment,’ ‘crisis at border’ appears to have little impact on natives.
Immigrants are pretty law-abiding people.
Supermajority of Mercedes-Benz workers in Alabama file for UAW vote.
Economy has done better under Democrats for 75 years, report finds.
RFK Jr. official admits goal is to elect Trump.
Campaigners cheer FCC plan to restore net neutrality rules.
New Biden plan for student debt relief ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
For the beneficiaries, losing Obamacare would truly suck
ART CULLEN p. 6
Back from the spiritual desert
ALAN GUEBERT p. 6
Another $1 billion to refinance status quo won’t stop ag pandemics
JOE CONASON p. 7
The anguished courage of Chuck Schumer
ASHLEY DINES p. 7
Rents are unaffordable nationwide. A renter’s tax credit would help.
JOHN YOUNG p. 7
If Donald Trump is a Christian
JAMES EGGERT p. 8
We are all socialists (and capitalists too)
DICK POLMAN p. 9
If you or I depicted the president kidnapped and hog-tied...
LES LEOPOLD p. 9
Can you slam Wall Street and still win an election? Ask Sherrod Brown
DAVID McCALL p. 10
A new shipbuilding era
SAM PIZZIGATI p. 10
Meet the secretive rich funding efforts to keep others poor
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
A bridge collapsed, and almost simultaneously so did our discourse
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 11
How Republicans screw workers
BRIAN CARSS p. 11
Making ends meet is hard enought without a penalty for coming up short
SONALI KOLHATKAR p. 12
Corporate profiteering destroyed the Baltimore bridge
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 12
Loath as I am to agree with Marjorie Taylore Greene...
THOM HARTMANN p. 13
The early days of Fox: Losing money to gain political power
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
Trump’s 5-step fascist plan
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Israel does not have the right to reduce Gaza to rubble
HANK KALET p. 14
Ill-defining antisemitism: IHRA definition will chill speech and academic freedom
MARIAH MONTGOMERY p. 14
‘Gaslighting and greed’: How Uber overcharges riders and underpays drivers
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Opill: A victory for women (and their male partners)
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Be very afraid of Republican ‘reforms’
PAUL ARMENTANO p. 15
State-level marijuana legalization has been a stunning success
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Democrats bite the bullet
JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 16
The end of recessions in the United States?
GENE NICHOL p. 16
The arrogance of unaccountable power
JUAN COLE p. 17
Chef José Andrés’ World Central Kitchen accuses Israel of “targeted attack” on 7 of its aid workers
JASON SIBERT p. 17
Détente again
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
A key to Baltimore’s broken heart
BARRY FRIEDMAN p. 18
Leaving home
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 18
Walk this way: Reviewing Anne Braden’s letters, speeches and writings
RALPH NADER p. 19
Is the same old Democratic Party ready to correct course? In time?
TED RALL p. 19
How to fix the college mess
STEPHEN TRIMBLE p. 20
Culture wars and an embattled Utah monument
ROB PATTERSON p. 20
Bradley Cooper’s Bernstein
SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 20
Golden boy
FILM REVIEW/Ed Rampellp. 21
New left ex-fugitive lived underground after prison shootout
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Online gambling has swallowed professional sports
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Israel is wielding starvation as a weapon of war
CASSIE McCLURE p. 22
When information isn’t the news
DANA MILBANK p. 23
Trump can’t remember much. He hopes you won’t be able to, either.
ALEXANDRA PETRI p. 23
Who needs the Bible? Try the book of Trump!
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