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COVER/Reynard Loki p. 1
If we don’t protect the natural world by 2030, Earth may be unfit for life
EDITORIAL p. 2
Republicans obstruct truth
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
The plutocrats cry — People cheer. Shameless monopolies and makers
FRANK LINGO p. 3
Methane menace: It’s a gas gas gas
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Meritocracy: The pain and the hope
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Who will take care of people?
DISPATCHES p. 5
House Republicans call for raising Medicare, Social Security eligibility to 69.
Vaccination data suggests COVID spreading among Republicans.
Resuming in-person learning at Texas schools last fall accelerated COVID-19, study says.
Extremists seeking political office identify as Republicans, confident the base is on their side.
Republican governors cutting federal unemployment benefits for 4 million.
Decision to cut off federal unemployment benefits in Texas could backfire.
Their guy lost in 2020. Now they're running for statewide
election posts to wreak havoc in 2022 and 2024.
Last days of Trump administration were bedlam.
Biden plans big increase in IRS funding, staffing to crack down on rich tax cheats.
Wage theft is a huge problem that requires a creative solution.
Bill would end Postal Service's crippling pre-funding mandate.
FROMA HARROP p. 6
The 2022 midterms might surprise us
ART CULLEN p. 6
Drought a sign of a new reality
ALAN GUEBERT p. 6
Ag groups make a united, hollow call on meatpackers to play nice
GENE LYONS p. 7
Get vaccinated now, mask up sometimes — and keep using common sense
JILL RICHARDSON p. 7
The bigger picture in Israel-Palestine
JOHN YOUNG p. 7
Gun lobby’s divide & conquer strategy
JOHN L. MICEK p. 8
Republicans and the return of class warfare
THOM HARTMANN p. 9
GOP is raising the next racist generation of right wing crackpots
DICK POLMAN p. 9
Hannah Arendt is long dead, but she’s hip to the lying Republican cultists
TOM CONWAY p. 10
America’s thirst
JOSEPH B. ATKINS p. 10
Republican governors put the squeeze on the unemployed
BOB HERTZ p. 10
‘Creeping Socialism’ would be good for America
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
America is moving on from Trump’s divisive hype
DEAN BAKER p. 11
Hot tip for the NYT on vaccines: There are these two countries called Russia and China
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 12
China and Republican economic populism
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 12
Democrats can claim the ‘family values’ mantle with paid leave and affordable child care
SONALI KOLHATKAR p. 13
The PRO Act is a game-changer for labor and the economy
ROBERT REICH p. 13
Strongmen are losing the fight against COVID-19
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
COVID-19 is a risk to humanity
ROBERTO Dr. CINTLI RODRIGUEZ p. 14
How to teach race in Brown
TARAH HEINZEN p. 14
Factory farms are a deadly nuisance
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Costing out love, or the economics of filial duty
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Respect that puppy mama
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 15
Work to die for: COVID-19 and US labor
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Working the middle
JOHN BUELL p. 16
TRIPS and the future of Big Pharma
JASON SIBERT p. 16
What about arms control?
JUAN COLE p. 17
Israel’s Pyrrhic victory: It razed some buildings, but reinforced Palestinian national identity in latest conflict
TRACEY L. ROGERS p. 17
Palestinian lives matter
JOE CONASON p. 18
The party of surrender to tyranny
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
Daddy’s girl: Liz Cheney, me and history
JOHN FEFFER p. 18
America’s immigration solution
RALPH NADER p. 19
NPR at 50 — straying from its civic mission?
TED RALL p. 19
No more false equivalence: Israel chooses war over peace
BOOK REVIEW/Heather Seggel p. 20
Know it don’t thrill you, hope it don’t kill you
BOB BURNETT p. 20
What happens next?
SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 20
Regrets, she has a few
MOVIE REVIEW/Ed Rampell p. 21
Masterpiece cinema: BFI player classics streams 200-plus British movies
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
The IOC is now daring Olympic athletes to protest
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Joe Biden’s hit and run on the Palestinian people
SUSAN ESTRICH p. 22
Scaredy-cats eat their own
DANA MILKBANK p. 23
The Trumpy right violates everything our children are taught
GENE NICHOL p. 23
North Carolina critical race theory bill forces schools to lie
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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