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COVER/Marshall Auerback p. 1
US-China talks are about much more than trade
EDITORIAL p. 2
Pro-birth is not pro-life
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
What does Made in America mean to Trump?
Let’s re-fund America.
WILL DURST p. 3
Impeachment short form
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Remembering Rachel Held Evans
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
We are direct drivers of extinction
DISPATCHES p. 5
‘Money laundering’ and ‘The President’;
Trump camp stands against Constitution;
Judge denies Trump’s bid to deny House his financial records;
Audits of rich people plummeted last year;
Trump’s in trouble in battleground states;
Brazilian meat barons got millions from Trump’s farmer bailout;
Wold 'not on track' to stop 1.5 degrees of
global warming, UN Secretary General warns;
Gas car sales 'have already peaked and may never recover' as battery prices plunge;
Monsanto hit with $2B verdict in Roundup cancer suit
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Trump’s economy is strong. Obama’s was better.
CHERIE MORTICE p. 6
Farm country: Don’t get fooled again
ART CULLEN p. 6
Trump’s folly on trade
GENE LYONS p. 7
Climate change: A matter of geophysics, not belief
JILL RICHARDSON p. 7
Reminder: Climate change was no accident
JOHN YOUNG p. 7
A mysterious coverup that would make Richard Nixon blush
ALAN MACLEOD p. 8
‘Purity tests’ can be a good thing
JAKE JOHNSON p. 8
‘Disgraceful’: While reaping $21 billion windfall from Trump tax cuts, report shows, AT&T slashed 23,000 jobs
SARAH ANDERSON p. 9
The reality behind the ‘surging’ US economy
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 9
Fetuses are not children
JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 9
Arresting the attorney general
LEO GERARD p. 10
The PRO act as a pathway to power: An economy is only as healthy as its workers are empowered
NANCY J. ALTMAN p. 10
The remarkable mothers of Social Security
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Gun violence is political, and politics must end it
DEAN BAKER p. 11
The US labor market is deteriorating for black men
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 11
How citizenship matters
STEPHANIE TAYLOR and ALEX LAWSON p. 12
Nobody likes getting ripped off by pharmaceutical corporations
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 12
A new poll tax will suppress Florida’s voting reform
HEATHER DIGBY PARTON p. 13
‘Investigating the investigators’: Republicans roll out a dangerous new gambit
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
The House has a Constitutional duty to impeach
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
65 years after Brown v. Board of Education
BOB BURNETT p. 14
Donald Trump and the measles epidemic
MARTHA BURK p. 14
The most dangerous time for women’s rights in decades
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
The last journey: Who will pay?
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Trump puts hopes on tariffic trade war
GEORGE MILLER p. 15
For a Green New Deal that works, look to California
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
The Trump international
JOHN BUELL p. 16
On negotiating with Trump and his allies
JASON SIBERT p. 16
Military spending is worth fighting for
JUAN COLE p. 17
Top ten differences between the Iraq war and Trump’s proposed Iran war
GREGORY SHUPAK p. 17
Distorting ‘democracy’ in Venezuela coverage
JOE CONASON p. 18
The hypocrites on the Hill
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
Trump’s fondness for strongmen leaders abroad
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 18
Elizabeth Warren’s unifying race narrative
RALPH NADER p. 19
The contented classes — when will they rebel?
TED RALL p. 19
Death to the stump speech
BOOK REVIEW/Heather Seggel p. 20
Escaping garbage island
ROB PATTERSON p. 20
News and infotainment sources
SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 20
Trumpus redactus
NINA GOLGOWSKI p. 20
Washington to become the first state to offer public health insurance
FILM REVIEW/Ed Rampell p. 21
What about Confederate movie monuments — like ‘Gone with the Wind’?
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Red Sox players are divided over White House visit
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
John Bolton is the world’s worst nightmare
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Welcome to the dystopia of Alabama
DANA MILBANK p. 23
Trump’s not claiming executive power. He’s going for divine right.
HECTOR FIGUEROA and BEN BEACHY p. 23
Save the planet — with good union jobs
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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This page posted May 25, 2019