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COVER/Hal Crowther p. 1
Voiding the social contract: Trump’s war of the weird
EDITORIAL p. 2
Snap out of it, Dems!
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Democrats need to choose between progressives and centrists.
How do the rich become uber-rich? Change is coming.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Food servers: Their times and troubles
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Don’t throw the personal campaigning out with the caucuses
DISPATCHES p. 5
Reneging on pledges (again), Trump would cut Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security to pay for tax cuts for rich;
Trump Medicaid rules would undermine rural health care;
Iowa caucuses slowly serve their purpose;
Plenty of Republican Senate targets;
Trump still ‘underwater’ in swing states;
Barr confirms he'll process Giuliani's anti-Biden claims;
Trump job creation still lags Obama’s last three years;
Trump makes taxpayers pay nearly $500,000 for Secret Service stays at president's properties;
Trump threatens to pardon Roger Stonne before dirty trickster is sentenced;
New data shows Texas' working class supports progessive economic policies;
'End Citizens United' and 'Let America Vote' join foces for combined voting rights group
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Iowa caucus results were very good for Michael Bloomberg
ART CULLEN p. 6
Iowa results seem to fall where everyone expected they would: Undecided
JAMES EGGERT p. 6
When Democrats vote ...
GENE LYONS p. 7
Sanders supporters can’t see the forest for the tree
JILL RICHARDSON p. 7
A cruel attack on the disabled
JOHN YOUNG p. 7
Donald Trump: Loser
PETER CERTO p. 8
There’s no ‘Great American Comeback’
NANCY J. ALTMAN p. 9
Trump is a brazen liar about Social Security
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 9
Election-year pessimism
TOM CONWAY p. 10
Trump gets an F from workers
TOM JOHNSTON p. 10
Clarifying prospects for US health care
SAM PIZZIGATI p. 10
Lies in the White House, cancer in our neighborhoods
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Once again, Trump shows his power at the expense of migrants
DEAN BAKER p. 11
Financial transactions taxes are no longer a “fringe” idea
MICHAEL WINSHIP p. 12
Donald Trump’s state of the mighty me
ROBERTO DR. CINTLI RODRIGUEZ p. 12
The end of truth: The triumph of lying
HEATHER DIGBY PARTON p. 13
Trump’s core philosophy: Get even. It’s going to get really ugly, folks
ROBERT REICH p. 13
The State of the (dis)Union
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Let us not censor Dr. King’s live even as we glorify him
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 14
It’s time to leave Iraq once and for all
BOB BURNETT p. 14
This is the way it ends, not with a bang but a whimper
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
The Fabulist-in-Chief takes on cancer
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Who can you trust in a liar’s world
SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 15
What will it take?
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Democrats, post-feud
JOHN BUELL p. 16
California fires and the search for home
MARK ANDERSON p. 16
Can Britain and EU disentangle
JUAN COLE p. 17
Arab League and Palestine slap down Kushner plan, as Palestine severs all relations with US and Israel
DAVID SCHMIDT p. 17
Crossing the border between reality and fantasy: The wild inaccuracies of ‘American Dirt’
JOE CONASON p. 18
Just the facts, Madam Speaker
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
A union broken with a senate surrender
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 18
Was impeachment a mistake?
RALPH NADER p. 19
Misleading categories and Trump’s swamps
TED RALL p. 19
Democrats’ wimpy impeachment makes Trump stronger
BOOK REVIEW/Heather Seggel p. 20
The toil and trouble of our time
ROB PATTERSON p. 20
Scorsese brings us along on his journeys
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 20
Mourning in America: Kobe and me
MOVIE REVIEW/Ed Rampell p. 21
#OscarsSoWhite meets #OscarsSoConservative
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
The political bombast of the Super Bowl
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
The Iowa fiasco rings the death knell of a failed 50-year experiment
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
What a state of our union
DANA MILBANK p. 23
This vulgar man has squandered our decency
FRANK LINGO p. 23
Butterfly protectors join toll of murdered environmentalists
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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This page posted February 15, 2020