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COVER/Bill Curry p. 1
Are the Democrats divided? No — they’re poised to win big if they don’t screw it up
EDITORIAL p. 2
Hateful words and guns
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Let’s decode Trump’s Afta-NAFTA trade deal.
Will Democrats be Democrats or fraidy-cats?
Punishing trade pirates? It’s complicated.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Toni Morrison: Prophet with a sharp pen
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Don’t count on trees to capture carbon
DISPATCHES p. 5
Most Americans think white nationalism poses threat to US;
Gun control support rises, one mass shooting at a time;
Trump tops 12,000 lies;
NH GOP gov vetoes bipartisan redistricting plan;
Big bank: writing on the wall for oil industry;
Trump will ban poor immigrants;
Trump tariffs cost US households $500 each
White House violated law with plan to move hundreds of USDA workers;
China tries to teach Trump economics
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FROMA HARROP p. 6
Economy not so rosy for the middle class
ART CULLEN p. 6
Time to change is now
PABLO PRATT p. 6
The value of community college
GENE LYONS p. 7
Dems’ lofty ideas will meet tough opposition from Congress, courts
JILL RICHARDSON p. 7
You don’t save money by forcing people to go hungry
JOHN YOUNG p. 7
GOP, religious right wedded in moral rot
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 8
Battle for Senate demands democrats’ fierce focus
ERIC BOEHLERT p. 9
How can we fight white nationalist terror when press won’t even call Trump racist?
BOB BURNETT p. 9
The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming!
DR. SANJEEV K. SRIRAM p. 10
Republican attacks on the Social Security 2100 Act are an assault on public health
ANDREA GERMANOS p. 10
Bolstering call to expand Social Security, new reporting reveals how corporations are offloading pensions
GLORIA OLADIPO p. 10
Trump’s new coal rules will bury rural America
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
What Kirsten Gillibrand can teach her party about race
DEAN BAKER p. 11
Revised profit data are good news but don’t reverse decades of wage stagnation
WILLIAM MINTER p. 11
The Green New Deal must be global
TOM CONWAY p. 12
Trump’s lies to labor
GENE NICHOL p. 12
Missing Barbara Jordan
HEATHER DIGBY PARTON p. 13
Mass shootings are more than hate: Trump’s politics of vengeance stokes violent grievance culture
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
The myth of the rugged individual
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Prayers and condolences are not enough
HAL CROWTHER p. 14
No turning back: Trump crosses the Rubicon
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Incremental: The verboten word
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Mule-headed Republicans
BOOK REVIEW/Heather Seggel p. 15
Making the news
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Why Trump may win
JOHN BUELL p. 16
Neoliberalism from table to gut
JUAN COLE p. 17
Immigrants aren’t ‘invaders’: They’re who will pay your Social Security
KENT PATERSON p. 17
Trump-AMLO ‘lovefest’ jeopardizes Mexico’s fourth transformation
JASON SIBERT p. 17
Populists on right and left struggle with globalists
JOE CONASON p. 18
No, Mr. President, not both sides
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
Obama’s search for something deep in Biden
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 18
Harris’s fake Medicare-for-All plan
RALPH NADER p. 19
Trump’s effective intimidation of the powerful Federal Reserve
TED RALL p. 19
Bernie’s retirement plan: Good, but not nearly enough to solve the problem
FR. DONNELL KIRCHNER p. 20
Is the old order passing away?
ROB PATTERSON p. 20
‘The War’ is still going on
SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 20
Trouble right here in River City
MOVIE REVIEW/Ed Rampell p. 21
The Rock gets back to his roots as Samoa gets the Black Panther treatment: South Seas cinema stars in action series spin-off
BOOK REVIEW/Seth Sandronsky p. 21
Rethinking the GDR
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
A soccer player’s on-field message to Congress: ‘Do something now. End gun violence. Let’s go!’
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Trump’s America: Gun violence and the war on immigrants
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
We cannot afford cynicism
DANA MILBANK p. 23
Foreign countries warn about travel to Trump’s US. Can you blame them?
WILL DURST p. 23
The best words
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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This page posted August 15, 2019