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COVER/Wren Opperman p. 1
and Molly Egan/The Daily Yonder
Alternative voices/alternative reality: How does talk radio affect Pennsylvania rural voters?
EDITORIAL p. 2
Time to crush Trumpism
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Sordid story: Corporate executives get self-gratification from M&As | Holy Donald Trump! An Oklahoma Bibles story | To fight right-wing book bans, read banned books! | Isn’t it odd that public officials support corporate price gouging?
FRANK LINGO p. 3
Trump’s willing executioners
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Cussing comes to CNN
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Keep your eyes on the prize, voters
DISPATCHES p. 5
Conservative think tank finds Trump plans would wreck Social Security.
Trump and his allies try to rally early vote, while crying fraud.
Trump also wants to destroy American education system.
Central Park 5 Sue Trump for defamation.
Boeing union wins contract with 35% hike.
Harris edges Trump on economic positions.
Trump used D.C. hotel to enrich himself, fleeced taxpayers while president: probe ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Musk wants to control the presidency
ART CULLEN p. 6
What do pork, quartz and saline solution have in common?
ALAN GUEBERT p. 6
Big mac bites big meat over alleged ‘artificially higher prices’
GENE LYONS p. 7
What’s the forecast? Extreme conspiracy theories with heavy lies
SONALI KOLHATKAR p. 7
Scapegoating immigrants hurts all of us — except elites
JOHN YOUNG p. 7
Down the stretch in a cloud of lies
CLAIRE CARLSON and p. 8
LANE WENDELL FISCHER
Walz assails ag monopolies and touts healthcare policy in speech on rural plan
DICK POLMAN p. 9
The sultan of stupid strikes again! This time, he flunked the most basic mathematics
JOE CONASON p. 9
Trump, Musk and the hideous campaign of hate
INDIVAR DUTTA-GUPTA p. 9
Tax cuts for the rich create debt, division and despair — not jobs
A.J. SCHUMANN p. 10
Who’s reallyl a populist? Henry Wallace set the standard
LES LEOPOLD p. 10
135.9 million reasons why the working class is so angry
ELWOOD WATSON p. 10
Obama’s condescending message to Black men
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
J.D. Vance’s hateful masterclass on immigrants
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 11
How hurricanes are a profit center for insurers
THOM HARTMANN p. 12
No one has ever been as dangerous to America as Trump — it can happen here
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 12
Meet Dan Osborn, the heartland populist from Nebraska who’s running for the Senate
SABRINA HAAKE p. 13
Oil billionaires, not taxpayers, should pay for climate destruction
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
Keep the faith
CLARENCE PAGE p. 14
Donald Trump, spreader of conspiracy theories, needs to get out of the way
THE BIG PICTURE/Glynn Wilson p. 14
Lilly Ledbetter of Alabama, champion of pay equality, dies at 86
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Cruelty cloaked in morality
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Be wary of covid ‘cures’
SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 15
True grift
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Crumbling wall of ivy
JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 16
Ten simple things you can do to reduce plastic pollution
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 16
Reviewing ‘Rez Ball’
JUAN COLE p. 17
Blinken and Austin scold Netanyahu over Gaza atrocities, playing cynical presidential politics
N. GUNASEKARAN p. 17
Taxing corporations for social, economic justice
LEW KINGSBURY p. 17
Lawsuit challenges restrictions on church political activities
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
Waves and walls higher for Harris’ catwalk
BARRY FRIEDMAN p. 18
The Trump biopsy
ALEXANDRA PETRI p. 18
Poor Donald Trump can’t get anyone to believe him
RALPH NADER p. 19
Last clear chances for November
TED RALL p. 19
Why won’t the government explain the migrant crisis?
JONATHAN THOMPSON p. 20
Wyoming shoots itself in the foot
ROB PATTERSON p. 20
The family helps Willie Nelson keep going
RED SCHOMBURG p. 20
The tipped wage system is failing us. Removing taxes on tips won’t save it.
ED RAMPELL p. 21
When John and Yoko seized TV
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
In a glaring double standard, FIFA fails to suspend Israeli soccer
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Medical workers demand a ceasefire in Gaza
BONNIE JEAN FELDKAMP p. 22
I quit: Hatred doesn’t need my help
DANA MILBANK p. 23
Trump upgrades his con to Category 5
GENE NICHOL p. 23
A finale
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