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COVER/Amanda Marcotte p. 1
Trump’s pileup of fake conspiracies conceals the real one
EDITORIAL p. 2
Keep the heat on the GOP
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
A Deere in the spotlight. Do-it-yourselfers unite!
WILL DURST p. 3
Apparently, Trump is a winner surrounded by losers
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Donald Trump and Captain Ahab
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Republicans inaction leaves rural hospitals endangered
DISPATCHES p. 5
Trump failing rural Americans by erasing climate change from USDA;
Union promises to fight defeat at Nissan Mississippi plant;
Senate confirms anti-labor pick to labor board;
Trump’s new appeals court judge compared abortion to slavery;
Trump may shut down government over border wall;
Trump urged Fox News to air bogus story;
Trolls celebrate mosque bombing while Trump stays silent;
Vatican shot across the bow for hard-line US Catholics
...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
‘Dunkirk’ is a morality story for shared blessing of peace
CHRISTINE COLBERT p. 6
Somebody up there will take care of everything
ART CULLEN p. 6
The noise machine never quiets down
GENE LYONS p. 7
Putin’s gamble on Trump is not paying off
JILL RICHARDSON p. 7
A tale of two beaches
BOB BURNETT p. 7
Trump: Bring back the 1950s
JEFFERSON MORLEY p. 8
The gripping story behind the case for Trump-Putin collusion
ROB PATTERSON p. 8
Saving America from the wrongs of the right: A six point plan
RICHARD ESKOW p. 10
If hell had a budget: The GOP breaks the Ten Commandments
LEEANN HALL p. 10
People, not politicians, beat health care repeal
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Trump’s gambit on transgender service members falls flat
DEAN BAKER p. 11
A better deal than what?
JOHN YOUNG p. 11
Now playing in Washington: ‘The Unconscionables’
BOB CESCA p. 12
Is this Trump’s worst-ever Twitter move?
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 12
Give me something new
HEATHER DIGBY PARTON p. 13
Desperate Trump returns to his favorite themes: Torture, blood and violence
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
Trump reeling from loss on Affordable Care Act
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Donald Trump’s dangerous delusions on police brutality
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 14
An even better deal
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 14
Progressive health care advances in the Golden State
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Willie Sutton for a new age
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Trump’s pox Americana
MARK ANDERSON p. 15
Distractions keep Congress from addressing infrastructure
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
The single-payer imperative
JOHN BUELL p. 16
Moving beyond resistance
JUAN COLE p. 17
The dragon arrives: first Chinese overseas military base in Djibouti
LEO GERARD p. 17
Don’t dawdle on economic and national security
JOE CONASON p. 18
Why Bob Mueller is no Ken Starr
DANA MILBANK p. 18
There’s no such thing as a Trump Democrat
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
Republican discontent with Trump rising like a river
RALPH NADER p. 19
Can the world defend itself from Omnicide?
TED RALL p. 19
The Democrats are a lost cause
JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 19
Trump administration fails to buy American
BARRY FRIEDMAN p. 20
What if Trump did that?
SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 20
The complete idiot’s guide to pardoning a turkey
ROB PATTERSON p. 20
Terry Gross still sets the standard on interviews
MOVIES/Ed Rampell p. 21
‘An Inconvenient Sequel’ raises some inconvenient truths about Gore
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
New concussion report calls the NFL’s future into question
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Trump’s call for police brutality is no joke
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Forced to choose, a US Veteran gives up on America
GARRISON KEILLOR p. 23
We will survive this
JOSH HOXIE p. 23
Don’t lie to poor kids about why they’re poor
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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This page posted August 11, 2017