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COVER/Jeff Bryant p. 1
Striking teachers are fighting for much more than paychecks
EDITORIAL p. 2
Rule of law overrules lies
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
How Trump’s poverty subsidy enriches the rich.
The plutocrats’ most effective secret weapon is the US tax code.
FRANK LINGO p. 3
Progressive propaganda, please
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Vaping: When kids become lab experiments
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Try new things in the new year
DISPATCHES p. 5
Middle-class Americans getting crushed by health insurance costs;
Southern governors say Dems can win if they stick to kitchen-table issues;
Kentucky GOP moves to strip new Dem governor’s authority;
Polls show close races in key states;
Trump starts sending refugees to Guatemala;
Company behind Keystone pipeline lowballs leak;
‘Pro-life’ group embraces death penalty;
AOC calls on solar company to rehire workers fired after unionizing;
Arizona jury acquits migrant rescuer;
Latino voters hope to flex numbers in California primary;
Justice Department empowers monopolists in media & entertainment
...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Do US carmakers want us to like them?
ART CULLEN p. 6
Yovanovitch reminds us of decency
ERIC BOEHLERT p. 6
Roger Stone and the media’s shame of 2016
GENE LYONS p. 7
The weird make-believe Ukraine of Trump and Giuliani
JILL RICHARDSON p. 7
Explaining Trump’s racism
JOHN YOUNG p. 7
If another president did (even one of) these things
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 9
Furor over Medicare for All ignores a key question
LINDSAY KOSHGARIAN p. 9
It’s our choice: Medicare for All, or endless war?
ANDREA FLYNN p. 9
What breast cancer taught me about health care
TOM CONWAY p. 10
Corporate spies keep an eye on organized labor
BOB BURNETT p. 10
Ranking the Democratic candidates
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Years after agreeing to tackle cartels, US and Mexico are doing little
DEAN BAKER p. 11
A bold plan to strengthen and improve Social Security is what America needs
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 11
Not all politics is national
KEVIN ROBILLARD p. 12
Democratic voters aren’t confident their presidential candidates will get much done
NEGIN OWLIAEI p. 12
Time for a billionaire ban
HEATHER DIGBY PARTON p. 13
Bill Barr’s fascist manifesto: Is this man the real threat to American democracy?
ROBERT REICH p. 13
Warren’s plan to address inequality rattles the establishment
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
The right to vote is fundamental to any democracy
JIM VAN DER POL p. 14
Two farm crises
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Cassandra on the status quo
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Antibiotic resistance: The superbugs are fighting back
PAUL ARMENTANO p. 15
Americans love CBD, but it’s a wild west
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
The Bernie blackout
JOHN BUELL p. 16
How’s that individual responsibility working for you?
HEATHER SEGGEL p. 16
PSPS, I don’t love you
JUAN COLE p. 17
GOP slammed Vindman as immigrant: But many Founding Fathers and Constitution framers were foreign-born
KENT PATERSON p. 17
Two clashing visions for El Paso’s future
JOE CONASON p. 18
The witnesses we still need to hear
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
A voice heard all over the world
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 18
A bogus takedown of Warren’s wealth tax
RALPH NADER p. 19
The most impeachable President vs. the most hesitant Congress. What are the Democrats waiting for?
TED RALL p. 19
Billionaires and corporations love anti-SLAPP laws. Why does John Oliver?
DAVID SCHMIDT p. 20
The Left got “Joker” dead wrong: A progressive defense of the film
ROB PATTERSON p. 20
Escaping into the Hollywood view of Washington
BOOK REVIEW/Seth Sandronsky p. 20
Abolish this
MOVIE REVIEW/Ed Rampell p. 21
Pacino, Paquin and the Gangs of New York are all here: Mean seats
SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 21
Ahead of his time
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Colin Kaepernick refused to bend to Roger Goodell’s will
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Ending the epidemic of transphobic violence
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Calling all Patriots
DANA MILBANK p. 23
Trump-friendly judges run out the clock on impeachment
JAKE JOHNSON p. 23
Evo Morales urges United Nations to ‘denounce and stop this massacre’ as Bolivian military guns down protestors
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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This page posted November 29, 2019