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COVER/Valerie Vande Panne p. 1
Tech moguls driving mass layoffs propose universal basic income
EDITORIAL p. 2
Half a cheer for Trump
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
We’re told the Dow Jones average... The zeitgeist, it is a-changing.
WILL DURST p. 3
GOP bridal remorse over marrying Trump
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Progressive millenials and how to get them elected
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Lies outrun the laughs
DISPATCHES p. 5
Trump’s EPA broke law by failing to implement smog rule, court rules;
House within reach for Dems;
Health care still #1 economic issue;
Trans-Pac Partnership pact expands investor-state dispute settlements;
GOP’s hastily passed tax scam is error-riddled;
Trump could feed every homeless vet for cost of his militry parade;
Trump has made 2,436 false claims as prez;
Number of people who hate Trump's offshore drilling plans keep growing;
Trump wants new authority over polling places;
Oil and gas industry panel on extreme hurricanes never mentions climate change
...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Stormy Daniels knows the art of the deal
DESDEMONA DALLAS p. 6
Can cannabis in California be kept cottage?
ART CULLEN p. 6
Relief for some
GENE LYONS p. 7
House committee’s Democratic rebuttal sets facts straight
JILL RICHARDSON p. 7
The stunning new cruelty of immigration enforcement
JOHN YOUNG p. 7
Porn star’s payoff and other Trump debts
KAREN DOLAN p. 8
Getting real about school safety
SOPHIA TESFAYE p. 9
Americans aren’t bamboozled: GOP tax law is a flop
BOB LORD p. 9
Just how unequal are America’s major corporations?
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 10
Trump’s trade war is an incompetent response to a real problem
LEO GERARD p. 10
US aluminum and steel workers are an endangered species
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Send in the lawyers
DEAN BAKER p. 11
Employer-side payroll taxes: Cuomo goes to war against Republican tax plan
DAVE JAMIESON p. 12
West Virginia teacher strike was rare, militant and victorious
GENE NICHOL p. 12
America’s hope
HEATHER DIGBY PARTON p. 13
Break up the House Intel Committee: Devin Nunes can’t be trusted with national secrets
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
The unconscionable conflicts of Jared Kushner
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Assault on right to vote comes from home-grown reactionaries
JONATHAN COHN p. 14
The liberal establishment suddenly sounds very ambitious on health care
SAM PIZZIGATI p. 14
The wealthy, the poor, the vulnerable
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Immiseration: Karl Marx meets Donald Trump
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Don’t fear nuclear missiles. Fear those who deploy them.
BOB BURNETT p. 15
Forecasting the midterm elections in the South
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Enablers of financial catastrophe: A retrospective warning
JOHN BUELL p. 16
Sports, technology, and truth
JUAN COLE p. 17
Tower of Jello: Russia and UAE struggle over Tillerson’s helming of State Department
N. GUNASEKARAN p. 17
The squalor of the so-called informal sector
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 17
Democratic party establishment, it’s time to respect insurgent progressives
JOE CONASON p. 18
Don’t forget: The ‘patriotic’ NRA is under investigation for Kremlin connections
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
Steel can break your heart in the Trump White House
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 18
Fake news gets fake democracy
RALPH NADER p. 19
Heritage’s corporate lobby inside Trump’s government is not the people’s heritage
TED RALL p. 19
Here’s how Democrats could win this fall and the one after that, and the one after that
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 19
Cheap drivers
TERRY STULCE p. 20
Dangerous American gun myths and fantasies
ROB PATTERSON p. 20
How far music recording has progressed
SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 20
Send in the clowns
MOVIES/Ed Rampell p. 21
Filmmaker Raoul Peck talks about Karl Marx, revolutionary love, and Trump
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Is it okay to watch football?
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
West Virginia teachers strike revives a proud labor heritage
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
A new lesson plan in West Virginia
DANA MILBANK p. 23
Finally, Republicans reveal their red line for Trump
MARC MUNROE DION p. 23
A few notes for a new national anthem
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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This page posted March 17, 2017