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COVER/Adam Weymouth p. 1
Big banks are accused of funding the climate crisis
EDITORIAL p. 2
Impeach Trump and the Senate
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Kroger: Don’t lose local news.
Who's behind the increasing suppression of your right to protest?
WILL DURST p. 3
Blow that whistle
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Tommie Smith and John Carlos: Heroes at last
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Sometimes a little disruption is necessary
DISPATCHES p. 5
Team Trump wants Supreme Court to hold off destroying ACA until after election;
Trump’s Medicare ‘improvement’ sets up its demise;
Trump lets Turkey attack Kurdish allies of US;
Which senators appear vulnerable heading into 2020?
Trump sees Florida changes shrink;
Workers pay as GE freezes pensions;
72% of rural hospital closures are in states that rejected Medicaid expansion
...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Which America speaks to Hong Kong?
ART CULLEN p. 6
Trump impeachment might shake up Senate
BEN LILLISTON p. 6
Trump’s Japan deal another win for global meat
GENE LYONS p. 7
If there’s one thing Americans understand, it’s a mob shakedown
JILL RICHARDSON p. 7
Why does Trump keep doing this?
JOHN YOUNG p. 7
Look who’s ‘trying to destroy the Republican Party’
JOSUE DE LUNA NAVARRO p. 8
How fossil fuels pollute STEM education
MICHAEL WALLIS p. 8
My patients deserve Medicare for All
NANCY J. ALTMAN and SEAN MCELWEE p. 9
How far are Americans willing to go to overthrow the power of big pharma?
WENDELL POTTER p. 9
Why the private health insurance industry faces an existential crisis
TOM CONWAY p. 10
US government lets employers target union organizers with impunity
ERIC BOEHLERT p. 10
The press has a Rudy Giuliani problem
LAUREN WORTH p. 10
How local communities can tackle ‘death gap’
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
What have we learned about sexual assault from the Kavanaugh case?
DEAN BAKER p. 11
Donald Trump’s plan for winning the China trade war: Lying
THOM HARTMANN p. 12
If we want democracy back, we must undo the attack on middle class launched by Reagan
OLIVIA SNOW SMITH p. 12
Wall Street is killing local newspapers
HEATHER DIGBY PARTON p. 13
Yes, it’s this bad: Conspiracy hunter Bill Barr is roaming the globe under Trump’s orders
ROBERT REICH p. 13
Integrity of 2020 election must be protected
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Senate standing in the way of needed reforms
EOIN HIGGINS p. 14
‘Unacceptable’: Family farms, ag advocates hit back after Sec’y. Perdue says small dairy farms destined to die
BOB BURNETT p. 14
Ready or not, here comes impeachment
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Vaping: Now that we know, or derailing addiction from the start
SAM URETSKY p. 15
‘Moscow’ Mitch McConnell — a hard man to like
BOOK REVIEW/Heather Seggel p. 15
Ladies first
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Random thoughts on democratic dissonance
JOHN BUELL p. 16
O Canada: Race and class north of the border
JUAN COLE p. 17
On Khashoggi murder anniversary: Trump’s other dangerous conversations
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 17
What the godfather of modern whistleblowing can teach us now
NORMAN SOLOMON p. 17
MoveOn’s phony new campaign for ‘protecting whistleblowers’
JOE CONASON p. 18
Smearing Joe Biden, 2016 style
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
Trump knows: Beware the power of Pelosi
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 18
Warren vs. Sanders: Progressive non-aggression pact won’t hold much longer
RALPH NADER p. 19
Trump — will he implode with lies before he is impeached?
TED RALL p. 19
Left, center and right, we’re all in denial about climate change
ELWOOD WATSON p. 20
Yes! Many millenials are plagued with racism!
ROB PATTERSON p. 20
Opinions are like smartphones; everybody’s got one
SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 20
Going, going, gone but not forgotten
MOVIE REVIEW/Ed Rampell p. 21
Roy Cohn and the art of mean
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
California will let NCAA athletes get paid for their labor
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Snowden knows exactly why no one wants to be a whistleblower
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
An annual reminder: It’s your divorce, not your children’s
DANA MILBANK p. 23
Trump’s impeachment defense is all gators and snakes
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 23
Privileging white skin
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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This page posted October 11, 2019