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COVER/Michael Winship p. 1
Abandon hope for the US Senate under Mitch the Impaler
EDITORIAL p. 2
The marathon begins
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Facing the fates.
Is health care more important than health care profits?
Trump to working cass: ‘Adios, chumps’
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Beyond generations
RURAL ROUTWA/Margot McMillen p. 5
How about democracy in presidential race?
DISPATCHES p. 5
Grim report: Rent unaffordable for poor in every state.
Workers’ bonuses slumped 22% since GOP tax cuts.
First time renewables beat coal in electrical generation.
Postal Service wants to cut benefits, deliveries.
Senate Dems cut legs out from under House colleagues on border bill.
Poll: Economy isn't silver bullet Trump thinks it is.
President 'Deals' makes a deal.
Trump fails to convince anyone to abandon Paris Climate Accord at G20.
House Republicans prove once again they don't want you to have health care.
Brett Kavanaugh is exactly who we thought he was
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FROMA HARROP p. 6
Tweets, stock prices and Donald Trump
JIM GOODMAN p. 6
Current farm crisis offers opportunity for change
GENE LYONS p. 7
Dem candidates put too fine a point on Biden’s remarks
JILL RICHARDSON p. 7
How do you celebrate a flawed nation?
JOHN YOUNG p. 7
As pride flag rises, sun sets on this bigotry
ART CULLEN p. 8
Pay farmers to capture carbon
JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 9
Trump violates Buy American Act and Berry Amendment in Saudi arms deal
JASON SIBERT p. 9
Another nuclear arms race is the last thing the US needs
KAREN ROMERO p. 9
Don’t send refugees back to danger
LEO GERARD p. 10
Whether it’s the new NAFTA or the old NAFTA, it serves the 1 percent
BOB BURNETT p. 10
Speaking truth to power
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Our problem with the camps isn’t semantic; it’s moral
DEAN BAKER p. 11
Under Trump, manufacturing job growth slows to a trickle
MARK ANDERSON p. 11
Bill to help small farmers ‘outs’ truth about free trade
HEATHER DIGBY PARTON p. 12
Hey, NeverTrumpers: Please quit lecturing actual Democrats about how to win
GENE NICHOL p. 12
Government cannot and should not sponsor religion
NANCY J. ALTMAN p. 13
Intergenerational warfare is a scam — we need to expand Social Security and end student debt
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
It’s America’s economic system that’s broken, not China’s
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Mobilizing the Poor People’s Campaign
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 14
2020 Democrats must address our addiction to military spending
KENIA ALCOCER p. 14
Fund Head Start, not internment camps
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Money in surgery: A Casablanca ‘shock’
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Health care falters on AIDS coverage
BOOK REVIEW/Heather Seggel p. 15
If feminists don’t take over the English language, who will?
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Light at the tunnel’s end
JOHN BUELL p. 16
Deregulating our way to disaster
JUAN COLE p. 17
Trump cites ‘proportionality’ in Iran pullback, though he has often violated it
DAVID SCHMIDT p. 17
Why the World Cup makes me love my country
JOE CONASON p. 18
Crimes against humanity on the border
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
Is the Grand Old Party almost over?
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 18
Warren, the incidental and integral feminist
RALPH NADER p. 19
It is time to rediscover print newspapers
TED RALL p. 19
In defense of purity tests
SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 19
Condolences to the USA
ED RAMPELL p. 20
Stephanie Miller: Jester of the resistance
ROB PATTERSON p. 20
Can’t leave Neverland behind
MOVIE REVIEW/Ed Rampell p. 21
The Occupy Movement is ready for its close up in audacious Serbian documentary
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
and Jules Boykobb
The European Olympics’ bad romance
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Abolish migrant child jails now
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
In the absence of Republican courage, more children will die
DANA MILBANK p. 23
Trump demands subservience and gets incompetence
WILL DURST p. 23
A rash of lies
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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This page posted July 6, 2019