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COVER/Vijay Prashad p. 1
Trump will send oil and gas prices soaring even higher
EDITORIAL p. 2
Lying Don gets buggy
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Getting trapped in the Donald’s cuckoo nest.
Cowboys for liberty.
WILL DURST p. 3
SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh: Frequently asked questions
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Business as usual between Pentagon and big sport.
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
What is wrong with that man?
DISPATCHES p. 5
Consercative Dems seek to move agenda right;
Trump White House considers stripping security clearances of Trump critics. Just one problem;
What if Trump threatened a war and nobody cared?
Fossil fuel lobbyist spend $2B to kill US climate action;
From Supreme Court to ballot, Trump Obamacare sabotage is toxic;
Trump solidifies base, but GOP sheds indy support;
Va. GOP candidate laughed at for claiming Trump is 'standing up' to Russia;
Coal miners contract black lung disease at record rate;
FBI's top cybersecurity officials are jumping ship;
Trump fumes over North Korea failing to honor handshake;
Native Ameican pipeline protesters enter plea ageements to avoid long prison terms
...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Roe v. Wade is yesterday’s fight
ROCKY BARKER p. 6
President Trump keeps the Bundy standoff alive
ART CULLEN p. 6
Climate change is real
GENE LYONS p. 7
Putin’s tight grip on Trump on full display in Helsinki
JILL RICHARDSON p. 7
Soon you can’t use food stamps at farmers markets — but that’s not half of it
JOHN YOUNG p. 7
So much like Watergate, and so much worse
BOOK REVIEW/Heather Seggel p. 8
Give people money
JOSH HOXIE p. 8
Our missing $10 trillion
BENJAMIN Y. FONG and DUSTIN GUASTELLA p. 9
America must end class privilege in health care
JOHN L. MICEK p. 9
Congress too weak to stop trade war
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 10
Parsing the surreal from the sensible in Trump’s Helsinki performance
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 10
Beat bad grammar at the ballot box
SAM PIZZIGATI p. 10
A sweet new century for America’s most privileged
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Documenting my father’s route to becoming an American
DEAN BAKER p. 11
Corporations and mainstream media trumpet the ‘horrors’ of higher wages
BOB LORD p. 11
How to level the playing field for workers, even with unions hurting
LEO GERARD p. 12
Billionaire wolves in workers’ clothing
AMANDA MARCOTTE p. 12
Scott Pruitt gone, but the EPA’s pro-pollution agenda remains intact
HEATHER DIGBY PARTON p. 13
Republicans are shaken after Helsinki — but still fear the wrath of Trump’s voters
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
How to stop Trump’s lie machine
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Trump gives Putin a free pass
CESIA KEARNS p. 14
A Western utility needs to face hard economic facts
SEBASTIAN MURDOCK and NICK ROBINS-EARLY p. 14
Trump’s ‘culture’ comments about immigrants echo European white nationalists’
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Dribbling out profits: Of catsup and eye drops
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Has it happened here? Can we stop it from happening again?
BOB BURNETT p. 15
Remind me, what do liberals believe?
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
The not-so-grand old party
JOHN BUELL p. 16
Who are the real extremists?
JUAN COLE p. 17
What exactly did Trump promise Putin on Syria, START Nuclear Treaty?
JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 17
Kavanaugh is a political, partisan jurist
JOE CONASON p. 18
They swore an oath to defend this country
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
Does Trump really care about America?
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 18
The most incompetent demagogue in history
RALPH NADER p. 19
Universal voting dissolves the obstacles facing voters
TED RALL p. 19
Outlook for democrats in 2020 looks bleak
SATIRE/Barry Friedman p. 20
From the archives: This week mit Marte Bruger
SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 20
Borderline foolishness
ROB PATTERSON p. 20
Facebook is so 2016
MOVIE REVIEW/Ed Rampell p. 21
Dystopian racial apocalypse tomorrow: May the purge be with you
JOHN FEFFER p. 21
What’s behind Trump’s attacks on Europe?
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
NFL owners blink, suspend anthem policy
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Confront digital oligarchs and defend net neutrality
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
We’ll sing; You breathe
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 23
Treating immigrants like people
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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