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COVER/Robert Borosage p. 1
Can Democrats catch a wave in 2018?
EDITORIAL p. 2
Know your enemies
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Exposing our ‘Populist’ president as a naked plutocrat.
Why the American majority despises Trump’s Washington.
Fed up with corporate-rigged politics?
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Black History Month: Why it still matters
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Take some time off from social media
DISPATCHES p. 5
Trump gives $1.5T to rich, takes $1.7T from poor;
White House proposes to cut finance watchdog, limit its enforcement powers;
Steep cuts proposed for EPA;
Trump shortchanges infrastructure plan;
Trump proposes to sell off airports, power providers, other assets;
Trump can’t turn on lights in Puerto Rico, but coal barons problem is ‘emergency’;
Sessions praises ‘Anglo-American law enforcement’;
Trump's controversial pick to run Census withdraws;
Fed agency yanks press credentials of journo who won't censor story;
Net neutrality supporters press for congressional review;
GOP tries to rein in courts
...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Clean energy and dollars are both green
TOM RIBE p. 6
A new way to take the public out of public lands
ART CULLEN p. 6
Times are changing
GENE LYONS p. 7
If Carter Page isn’t a spy, he sure acted like one
JILL RICHARDSON p. 7
Colleges are screwing both teachers and students
JIM GOODMAN p. 7
Free trade should benefit the people, not corporations
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 8
The Democrats’ false choice
HAL CROWTHER p. 9
Year one: Eclipsing Andrew Johnson
LEO GERARD p. 10
GOP tax break sucker punches Wisconsin workers
JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 10
President Trump’s made in the USA report card
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Religious conservative makes human trafficking a culture war talking point
DEAN BAKER p. 11
3% GDP growth and Democrats’ irresponsible opposition to Trump tax cuts
WENONAH HAUTER p. 11
Privatization helps Wall Street — not our infrastructure
AMANDA MARCOTTE p. 12
The true state of Donald Trump’s union? Unlimited corruption
JEN HERRICK p. 12
Get ready for more voter suppression
HEATHER DIGBY PARTON p. 13
Lock them all up! Trump’s desperate new strategy: Investigate everybody
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
Trump’s divide-and-conquer strategy is working
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
The growing racial wage gap
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 14
Another Trump failure: Infrastructure
JOHN YOUNG p. 14
The Donald deploys the O.J. strategy
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
States: Laboratories of penury
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Get shots first, ask questions later
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 15
Cloning monkeys: Are humans next?
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
The new gilded age
JOHN BUELL p. 16
False alarms and nuclear realism
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 16
Going nuclear — again
JUAN COLE p. 17
Syrian Kurds allied with US stream into Afrin, rally against Turkish offensive
BOOK REVIEW/Heather Seggel p. 17
Notes from the photocopier, resistance in the days before the internet
JOE CONASON p. 18
Yes, the president must testify
BOB BURNETT p. 18
Great imposters: Reagan and Trump
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
Bright voices speak out of the darkness
RALPH NADER p. 19
The paradox of equal justice
TED RALL p. 19
Democrats could lose again this fall
THOM HARTMANN p. 20
GOP is wrecking your retirement savings
ROB PATTERSON p. 20
Johnny Cash remains a hero
SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 20
Reward: To anyone who can help Matt Lauer find his soul
MOVIES/Ed Rampell p. 21
The best of all philosophical operettas
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Eagles’ Super Bowl win shows a conscience does not distract from winning the game
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Uber, Lyft, driving drivers into poverty, despair
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Tip thievery, codified
DANA MILBANK p. 23
Trump doesn’t need a parade. He needs a Roman triumph.
WILL DURST p. 23
From bipartisan to treasonous
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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This page posted February 17, 2017