The Progressive POPULIST

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April 1, 2024 -- Volume 30, Number 6


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COVER/Dana Milbank p. 1
Biden gave $90 billion to Rural America. The thank you went to spam.

EDITORIAL p. 2
Biden goes long and scores!

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Is ‘Icarus’ the solution to climate change?
What if there was a natural substitute for plastic? There is!
How corporate lobbyists can engineer a train wreck.
What happened to the ‘miracle of meatless meat’?

FRANK LINGO p. 3
Solar revolution is on the way

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
The southern border: When suffering begets suffering

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
‘Show Me’ bad legislative ideas

DISPATCHES p. 5
‘Social Security is on the ballot,’ say advocates, as Trump threatens cuts.
Trump team takes over RNC, slashes staff.
Trump’s affection for dictators is at heart of his plan for America — and Ukraine.
To regain youth support, groups say Biden must embrace ‘Finish the Job’ youth agenda.
Trump endorses Gaza genocide: ‘Finish the Problem.’ ...
Senators call for new ‘war profiteering’ panel.
FROMA HARROP p. 6
New York suburbs could return Democrats to power
ART CULLEN p. 6
Iowa has robins in February and we can barely water the hogs

ALAN GUEBERT p. 6
The growing disconnect between hard numbers and soft policy

JOE CONASON p. 7
Over congressional Republicans, Putin casts his dark shadow

MARTHA BURK p. 7
Backlash: Women’s History Month in a post-Roe world

JOHN YOUNG p. 7
Tales of the embryonic highway patrol

SETH SANDRONSKY p. 8
Closing California prisons will save taxpayers money, budget watchdog agency reports

DICK POLMAN p. 9
During the pandemic, his fraudulency got a lot of people killed. Has that slid down the memory hole?

TOM SCHALLER and PAUL WALDMAN/ The Daily Yonder p. 9
Lack of political competition harms rural Americans
DAVID McCALL p. 10
Defying the South’s corporate lackeys

JOSEPH B. ATKINS p. 10
Workers once again try to organize the South

MARK ANDERSON p. 10
Support for aid to Ukraine is waning

MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Biden eyes US-Mexico border with a Trumpian gaze
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 11
Civil War II

THOM HARTMANN p. 12
The Saudi & Putin scheme for screwing Biden’s election hopes

KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 12
Free Boris Kagarlitsky
SONALI KOLHATKAR p. 13
Countering corporate propaganda

ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
Escaping Trump’s revenge
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
It is time to save the children
CHRIS MILLS RODRIGO p. 14
We need a ‘Marshall Plan’ for public media

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Welcome to the Twilight Zone: Strange rulings in family care

SAM URETSKY p. 15
The pandemic has long-term effects on the economy

PHYLLIS BENNIS p. 15
Gazans are starving — don’t cut aid now

WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Big Pharma on the defensive

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 16
An assault on campus speech

JASON SIBERT p. 16
Military rivals of the US in the second Cold War

JUAN COLE p. 17
Trump, like Biden, supports Israeli campaign against Gaza: ‘You’ve got to finish the problem’

N. GUNASEKARAN p. 17
‘The world cannot afford conflict in Asia’

JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
The Roberts Supreme Court: Too exteme for voters

BARRY FRIEDMAN p. 18
Summer of discontent/Part 2

SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 18
Say it ain’t so, Joe

RALPH NADER p. 19
Count the real Gaza death toll

TED RALL p. 19
Let’s declare war on economic insecurity
DAVE MARSTON p. 20
Glen Canyon Dam has created a world of mud

ROB PATTERSON p. 20
‘The Crown’ was a crowning TV achievement

ELWOOD WATSON p. 20
The creep of Christian nationalism

FILM REVIEWS/Ed Rampell p. 21
Pan African Film Festival offered new media for Black History Month

EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
The first athletes to speak out are the bravest
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Dropping bombs and bread on Gaza
BONNIE JEAN FELDKAMP p. 22
This election season, let’s choose productive public discourse
DANA MILBANK p. 23
Mike Johnson asked for ‘decorum. House GOP ignored him.
ALEXANDRA PETRI p. 23
McConnell stepping down from senate leadership to spend more time eroding the rights of his family

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