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COVER/Kent Paterson p. 1
López Obrador’s victory in Mexico raises hopes in Latin America
EDITORIAL p. 2
Negotiating with tarrifists
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
What do those people want?
A wall won’t fix immigration.
New York Times strikes out.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Young democratic socialists bringing the heat
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Yes, the planet is at risk
DISPATCHES p. 5
Trump freezes Obamacare payments, further undermining affordable care;
Louisiana Medicaid expansion may have saved thousands of lives;
Brett Kavanaugh picked to kill the ‘administrative state’;
Trump administration comes out against breastfeeding;
Pruitt’s successor at EPA may be more dangerous;
Heat waves could rise another 12°F;
Surely Trump will strip citizenship carefully;
Rural groups urge Congess invest in rural business
...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Trump tricks naive Democrats on immigration
TOM RIBE p. 6
Trump administration wants welfare for coal and nuclear power
ART CULLEN p. 6
Dems must address rural voters
GENE LYONS p. 7
Minority rule
JILL RICHARDSON p. 7
Knowing when to turn off the news
JOHN YOUNG p. 7
Inside the GOP rationalization chamber
RICHARD ESKOW p. 8
How to cover a revolution
DANIEL MARANS and p. 9 KEVIN ROBILLARD
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is driving new energy and money to progressive candidates
MIKE KUHLENBECK p. 9
Field of nightmares: Steve King and the rise of the racist right
JONATHAN COHN and JEFFREY YOUNG p. 10
Obamacare sabotage is working, Trump administration finds
MARK ANDERSON p. 10
Homeowner seeks court action against fraudulent foreclosures
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
When did ICE go rogue?
DEAN BAKER p. 11
Response to ‘Janus’: Take their intellectual ‘property’
SAM PIZZIGATI p. 11
Corporate wage theft is on the rise
BOB BURNETT p. 12
Telling the truth about immigration
JIM VAN DER POL p. 12
There’s more to immigration than people piling up at the border
HEATHER DIGBY PARTON p. 13
Republicans turn on Trump over trade war — but still won’t confront him
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
What are we going to do?
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Gang of five justices ignore law, will of elected representatives
WENONAH HAUTER p. 14
What fossil fuels and factory farms have in common
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Barreling toward dystopia
SAM URETSKY p. 15
What they think they know makes Trump supporters dangerous
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 15
Labor rules expand skimpy ‘association health plans’
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
The wages of Trump
JOHN BUELL p. 16
Paramilitary politics and the world’s children
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 16
The Supreme Court’s five ‘Black-Robed Rulers’
JUAN COLE p. 17
Trump luminaries embrace Iranian jihadi cult in Paris while excluding nice Iranians from immigration
N. GUNASEKARAN p. 17
Asia’s environment becoming ‘full-blown crisis’
JOE CONASON p. 18
The racism isn’t surprising anymore
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 18
Trump’s tax cut snake oil should be the story of the midterms
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
Madison and Washington on the country’s birthday
RALPH NADER p. 19
Recommendations for engrossing summer reading and viewing
TED RALL p. 19
For-profit prisons rake in billions from Trump’s immigration boondoggle
CLAUDIA ZEQUEIRA p. 20
What zero tolerance means for refugee families
ROB PATTERSON p. 20
Interest in Hitler heats up
SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 20
Gut check
MOVIE REVIEW/Ed Rampell p. 21
When 1 million Americans voted socialist
BOOK REVIEW/Heather Seggel p. 21
Too big to fail to catch the irony
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Hank Aaron says he’d reject a White House invitation
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Separating children: Making America hate again
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
After the attack in Annapolis, the anger stage of grief
WILL DURST p. 23
Trump administration: absurdity, normalized
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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