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COVER/Char Miller p. 1
Climate change keeps wildfires coming back
EDITORIAL p. 2
Trump botched the Afghan exit
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Trust us, we’re only spying on you. A Phoenix rises!
FRANK LINGO p. 3
Hell on Earth: Warming gone wild
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Remembering Trumka, labor champion
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Seek reconciliation, not revenge
DISPATCHES p. 5
Trump enablers try to rewrite their own Afghanistan history.
Who opposed helping US allies in Afghanistan?
Ending unemployment benefits early didn’t reduce unemployment.
Trump suggests vaccination, his cultists boo.
Pfizer vaccine gets full FDA approval.
Poll shows 81% welcome Afghan allies who helped us,
Report says Feds targeted Black Lives Matter protesters.
Saying crazy stuff all the time has consequences
...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Mission impossible was not possible
ART CULLEN p. 6
We will not be denied our freedom to consume ourselves
ALAN GUEBERT p. 6
Like a SNAP
GENE LYONS p. 7
Deniers and resisters and their attendant sorrows
JILL RICHARDSON p. 7
The GOP’s election lies are stale, but the stakes are high
JOHN YOUNG p. 7
‘COVID slide’ is the least of our concerns
JOAN McCARTER p. 8
Blue dogs find no support from leadership or among house democrats for infrastructure tantrum
JASON SIBERT p. 8
Curb chemical weapons
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 9
Biden’s 180-degree shift on trade policy
DICK POLMAN p. 9
On Afghanistan, can we all just take a chill pill?
TOM CONWAY p. 10
Keeping storms at bay
REBEKAH ENTRALGO p. 10
A chance to protect our essential workers
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 10
Contract this
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Dear President Biden: ‘The time is now for ambitious leadership to vaccinate the world’
DEAN BAKER p. 11
Cheap talk from the Fed on global warming?
BONNY GARDNER p. 12
Politics of loss and grievance: Why whites in the rural south support Donald Trump
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 12
Rather than focus on how the US got out of Afghanistan, focus on how it go in
THOM HARTMANN p. 13
Why conservatives want government to fail everywhere
ROBERT REICH p. 13
Guns, dangerous drugs and desperate migrants
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
President Biden gets it right
ROBERTO RODRIGUEZ p. 14
A triple code red for humanity
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Mark of sanity in health-news
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Developing killing machines
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 15
We’ve seen this movie before
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Bipartisan Joe
JOHN BUELL p. 16
Neoliberal hierarchies and Cuomo’s toxic workplace
MOVIE REVIEW/David Schmidt p. 16
‘New Order’: Dystopian Mexican film draws from the real-life horror of military dictatorships
JUAN COLE p. 17
The Biden doctrine and Afghanistan: Lean counter-terrorism and the end of bloated nation-building
JOE CONASON p. 18
The ugly truth about Afghanistan
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
The tragic march of 2021: Will it ever end well?
BARRY FRIEDMAN p. 18
Reinstatement day in America
RALPH NADER p. 19
‘Nobody is above the law’ — except the ‘Big Boys’
TED RALL p. 19
Celebrate the heroes who warned us that Afghanistan would be a disaster
BOOK REVIEW/Heather Seggel p. 20
Joining our struggles
JOSEPH B. ATKINS p. 20
Edwin Edwards, the last of the Louisiana populists?
SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 20
Cuomo 2.0
MOVIE REVIEW/Ed Rampell p. 21
Prometheus unbound: ‘Not going quietly’ is an ode to activism
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
and Jules Boykoff
Despite the ban, protest emerges at the Olympics
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
After decades of war, Afghans deserve peace
BONNIE JEAN FELDKAMP p. 22
Therapy is a valuable parenting resource
DANA MILBANK p. 23
We can’t let the terrorists rewrite the history of Jan. 6
GENE NICHOL p. 23
North Carolina untroubled by high child poverty
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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