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COVER/Medea Benjamin p. 1
10 Good things about a TERRIBLE year
EDITORIAL p. 2
GOP smash and grab
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Inequality is feeding America.
Coalitions of agriculture outsiders tackle powerful agribiz insiders.
Breakfast and beer.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Virginia town models First Amendment
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Women lead the way in 2018
DISPATCHES p. 5
Feds prepare crackdown on cannabis industry;
Trump wants to waste money on Border Patrol agents, too;
Trump administration plan to bail out coal and nuclear plants rejected by fed agency;
Expansion of offshore drilling faces big obstacles;
Trump promised to ‘protect and fight for’ American workers.
How that went;
Washington Dems’ ambitious vote agenda;
Cliven Bundy set free due to prosecutorial misconduct
...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Seven habits of highly effective resisters
RICHARD LINNETT p. 6
Hemp replaces uranium in rural western Colorado
ART CULLEN p. 6
Lack of bird flu research should make you queasy
GENE LYONS p. 7
Trump’s collusion denials grow increasingly thin
JILL RICHARDSON p. 7
A new year’s resolution: Time to speak up
JOHN YOUNG p. 7
2018: a year the GOP would just as soon skip
ELLIOTT NEGIN p. 8
Trump vows to kill 50 years of federal health and safety protections
BOB CESCA p. 9
Trump won the war on Christmas! Now he laughs at global warming
DAVE JAMIESON p. 9
In less than a year, Trump has stripped back workers’ ability to unionize
RICHARD ESKOW p. 10
The tax bill is a lifeline for Democrats. Will they sink or swim?
JASON SIBERT p. 10
Missouri voters look for another try at living wage
JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 10
Country of origin labeling works
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Trump administration aims to limit civil rights investigations in schools
DEAN BAKER p. 11
Diverting class warfare into generational warfare
CHUCK COLLINS p. 11
Help for struggling millionaires is on the way
JEFFERSON MORLEY p. 12
The politics of impeaching Trump
BOB BURNETT p. 12
Make America weak again
HEATHER DIGBY PARTON p. 13
Worst thing Steve Bannon said about Trump? ‘Money laundering’
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
Trump making little progress on promises to voters
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Let us remember, and rekindle the spirit of, the Emancipation Proclamation
ALEX HENDERSON p. 14
America’s health care system is an international disgrace, and it’s only getting worse
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Death by a thousand cuts
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Trump undermines AIDS programs
BOOK REVIEW/Heather Seggel p. 15
Mother knows best
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
The Franken travesty
JOHN BUELL p. 16
My 2017 favorites
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 16
Marcus Raskin, a true citizen, will be missed
JUAN COLE p. 17
Top 5 signs Trump doesn’t actually care about Iranian protesters
JOE CONASON p. 18
No, ‘both sides’ don’t smear prosecutors
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 18
Could US pass the EU’s democracy test?
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
Waiting for the Bomb Cyclone, Fire and Fury
RALPH NADER p. 19
Needed: A meter for Trump’s Lies Per Minute (LPM)
TED RALL p. 19
If Hillary Clinton had won, we’d be even worse
BOOK REVIEW/Seth Sandronsky p. 20
Trump this
ROB PATTERSON p. 20
Put sexual predators on the run
SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 20
Who put the woe in Lake Wobegone?
MOVIES/Ed Rampell p. 21
Lone wolf Antifa in new anti-neo-Nazi German film
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
2017 in sports and politics: The return of the backlash
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Emilio Gutiérrez Soto and the fight to protect journalists
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Button, button, who’s got the button?
DANA MILBANK p. 23
New Year, same Trump
WILL DURST p. 23
Donald Trump as robbing hood
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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This page posted January 13, 2017