The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
July 1-15, 2024 -- Volume 30, Number 12


TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Andrea Bernstein p. 1
What Donald Trump’s criminal trial reveals about a potential second term

EDITORIAL p. 2
Big Lie Party backs their guy

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Going from democracy ... to plutocracy ... and now to kleptocracy.
Return of the swamp drainer: Making a mockery of democracy.
Cruising along with Ted Cruz.
How silly can right-wing culture warriors get?
An anti-abortion creep: Worse than a snake in the grass.
What if our lawmakers were working-class people?

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
A farewell to Bill Walton

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Voter challenges coming

DISPATCHES p. 5
Study makes case to abolish Medicare Advantage.
Trump’s guilty verdict driving away voters he can’t afford to lose.
Trump’s losing streak continues with New Jersey liquor license in jeopardy.
House R’s amp up their revenge against A.G.
Trump meets with probation officer.
Repubs ‘salivating’ to ram corporate tax break.
Economy generates 272,000 jobs in May, unemployment edges up to 4%.
RNC's latest awful hirs: A Stop-the-Steal guy and a Christian nationalist.

FROMA HARROP p. 6
The Manhattan jury pool isn’t all that liberal
ART CULLEN p. 6
These people are’t serious about our most basic enterprise: Food

ALAN GUEBERT p. 6
Words matter ... until they don’t

GENE LYONS p. 7
Lock him up!
KELSEA McCLAIN p. 7
It’s time to put Americans’ health decisions back in our own hands

JOHN YOUNG p. 7
Ah, hah; Mueller probe found criminal act

DICK POLMAN p. 9
Are Americans so depraved that they’ll put a convicted felon in power?

JOE CONASON p. 9
No, you’re not a ‘political prisoner’

DAVID McCALL p. 10
We’re here. And we’re strong.

SETH SANDRONSKY p. 10
How freelance journalists are moving from precarity to solidarity

MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Harrison Butker’s tantrum against Catholicism
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 11
The support our public services briefly had — and still need

GENE NICHOL p. 11
The Supreme Court’s war on democracy

SONALI KOLHATKAR p. 12
‘Tough-on-crime’ doesn’t apply to people like Donald Trump

KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 12
Can Biden become a pugilist for populism?
THOM HARTMANN p. 13
Why the GOP deploys the “Mudsill Theory” to destroy social mobility in America
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
A tale of two consumers
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
There are no doubts about Donald Trump
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 14
No room at the inn

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Nursing homes: A conservative’s dilemma

SAM URETSKY p. 15
Don’t take any lip from bulldogs

WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Britannia hunkers down

JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 16
Make the Justice Department truly independent

JASON SIBERT p. 16
Defuse tensions with China

JUAN COLE p. 17
Trump’s attempt at planeticide was worse than hush money sex pay-off

KENT PATERSON p. 17
Landslide elects Mexico’s first woman president

JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
A grave moment in history

BARRY FRIEDMAN p. 18
Mrs. Alito’s performance art, again

FRANK LINGO p. 18
Anyone give a rat’s ass about Antarctica?

RALPH NADER p. 19
‘No one is above the law’ — really Mr. Biden?

TED RALL p. 19
Age. Race. Sexual orientation. Should political expression be a protected class, too?
PAMELA M. COVINGTON p. 19
Affordable child care helped my family out of deep poverty. Can we save it?
JOHN CLAYTON p. 20
In small towns, bookstores are thriving

ROB PATTERSON p. 20
Taylor Swift is in a class of her own

ELWOOD WATSON p. 20
After Trump conviction, Bragg becomes the target

FILM REVIEW/Ed Rampell p. 21
‘Power’: Chronicling the history of policing

EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Counting the Negro League records is about more than numbers
SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 21
My kingdom for a wife

AMY GOODMAN p. 22
A Gaza twin’s desperate fight for survival

BONNIE JEAN FELDKAMP p. 22
It takes courage to write in the digital age
DANA MILBANK p. 23
Another committee to confirm our conspiracy theories comes up short
ALEXANDRA PETRI p. 23
Donald Trump needs YOUR HELP to get vengeance on the evil RULE OF LAW

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