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COVER/Hal Crowther p. 1
Time for the midnight ride
EDITORIAL p. 2
Skunk punks G7 allies; Talking with Kim better than tweeting
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
How bad public policy happens. A Wall Street sin tax. Goons in Gucci.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
The road to hopelessness
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Greitens’ big guns misfire
DISPATCHES p. 5
Medicare, Social Security stressed but expendable;
Pelosi’s PAYGO pledge frustrates progressive goals;
Trump tops 3,251 lies in 500 days;
Mulvaney fires advisory board whose members criticized him;
Is Obamacare here to stay?
Supreme Court clears way for diseinfranchisement of voters;
US dairy trade policy is simple: basically no imports at all;
Feinstein bill would prohibit family separations at border;
Net neutrality is officially dead
...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Immigration policy both nasty and ineffectual
BRIAN MOENCH p. 6
Mining industry wants special favors in Utah
ART CULLEN p. 6
Our dirty secret
GENE LYONS p. 7
Putin envy: Trump claims dictatorial powers he doesn’t have
JILL RICHARDSON p. 7
‘Pro-family’ homophobia rips families apart
JOHN YOUNG p. 7
Serious case of parasitism in executive branch
PETER CERTO p. 8
Never mind the wall — they’re building warehouses
PHILIP ALSTON p. 9
Trump’s welfare policy is unjustified, punitive and cruel
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 9
Economic numbers are cheery, but don’t believe the hype
RICHARD ESKOW p. 10
Real corruption: Mick ‘pay and we’ll talk’ Mulvaney
BOB BURNETT p. 10
All the president’s men: Mike Pompeo
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Why can’t Homeland Security think straight about racially inspired violence?
DEAN BAKER p. 11
No bubbles on the horizon
GENE NICHOL p. 11
RFK fifty years on
SALLY HERRIN p. 12
‘Red pill’: Lessons for the left
JASON SIBERT p. 12
A nation’s word should mean something
HEATHER DIGBY PARTON p. 13
Donald Trump’s trade war masks a darker agenda: Aiding the far right in Europe
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
Is a second American Civil War possible?
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Basic Democratic value under attack
BOOK REVIEW/Seth Sandronsky p. 14
A fraught century
JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 14
Harley-Davidson is moving jobs offshore despite tax cut and subsidies
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Work makes you insured
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Time for labor to fight back
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 15
Time to think big
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
New wind sweeps Mexico
JOHN BUELL p. 16
War as our way of life?
JUAN COLE p. 17
Too much Democracy in the Middle East?
KENT PATERSON p. 17
Migrants in US struggle to participate in 2018 Mexican elections
JOE CONASON p. 18
Trump’s big lies about the FBI
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 18
Corruption is the new normal
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
How Obama helped Trump and became tragically hip
RALPH NADER p. 19
Audit the outlaw military budget draining America’s necessities
TED RALL p. 19
#MeToo: A cultural workaround to a legal failure
ARTHUR NESLEN p. 20
Monsanto and Bayer are set to merge. Here’s why you should care.
SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 20
Nolo Contendere
ROB PATTERSON p. 20
How about those Beatles
ED RAMPELL p. 21
Rigging Rigoletto’s fate: Send in the clowns
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Why Donald Trump disinvited the Eagles from the White House
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
What’s a ‘Black Identity Extremist’? Groups demand Trump DHS release ‘Race Paper’
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Round up the parents; Lose the children
DANA MILBANK p. 23
We intrerrupt this apocalypse vigil to say America has conquered worse
WILL DURST p. 3
Oval Office apprentice
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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