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COVER/Laura Pritchett p. 1
Our border with Mexico teems with contradictions
EDITORIAL p. 2
Ukraine: Send in the Treasury
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Corporations win Olympic gold in “downhill ethical backflip.”
Give nature a seat at the governing table.
FRANK LINGO p. 3
Judge restores wolf protection
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
BASAV SEN p. 4
Three hopeful stories of environmental activism
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Why road trips aren’t fun anymore
MATT WITT p. 5
Alternatives to bigger jails don’t have to be a partisan issue
DISPATCHES p. 5
Inflation and price-gouging: The case for an excess profits tax. New poll throws major wrench into storyline on Glen Youngkin and education. California bill would let citizens enforce assault weapons ban. Child poverty skyrocketed 41% as child tax credit expired. Latest Fox News Trump conspiracy theory about Hillary Clinton draws mockery—and a warning ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Is the virus really over? We each get to decide
ART CULLEN p. 6
Zoom bomb takes malignant position in our civic square
ALAN GUEBERT p. 6
Smarm, snarl and snark can’t replace facts, honesty and ideas
GENE LYONS p. 7
Simple answers aren’t always easy to accept
REBEKAH ENTRALGO p. 7
Unions can prevent workplace disasters
JOHN YOUNG p. 7
Social justice isn’t microwavable
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 8
What happened, Ms. Yellen?
DICK POLMAN p. 9
Trump’s own financial accountants have now informed Trump: ‘YOU’RE FIRED!’
JOE CONASON p. 9
Investigating Trump’s document destruction
TOM CONWAY p. 10
Exploiting young workers
ELI HAGER p. 10
Welfare is no substitute for a child tax credit
DEAN BAKER p. 10
Thoughts on inflation after the January CPI
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Oh Canada, how the US encouraged a few disgruntled truckers to spin into a movement
THOM HARTMANN p. 12
All the GOP has left is racism & that’s a lie, too
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 12
A path out of the Ukraine crisis
SONALI KOLHATKAR p. 13
Fossil fuel companies and their mouthpieces offer net-zero logic on climate change
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
The fed is about to shaft American workers
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Republicans sink to new low
DR. CINTLI p. 14
Eliminating offensive mascots, the tomahawk chop and denigrating ‘war cries’
JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 14
The Republican party is no longer the party of Abraham Lincoln
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Mercury: A victory for this administration
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Have gun will rattle
JAKE JOHNSON p. 15
Physicians slam industry push to ‘fix’ — not end — Medicare privatization scheme
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
The promise
ERIC BOEHLERT p. 16
How Trump gets away with shredding everything
JUAN COLE p. 17
What Israel is doing to Palestine just as bad as what Russie is doing to Ukraine, but US doesn’t care
SAMANTHA GARCIA p. 17
We shouldn’t have to rely on the National Guard for basic services
ENNEDITH LOPEZ p. 17
We’ll keep fighting to protect our bodily autonomy
PETER CERTO p. 18
Media, take note: The GOP is now openly aligned against democracy
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
Biden’s perfect pick is in the house
BARRY FRIEDMAN p. 18
Yuri Andropov, Mitch McConnell and the search for humanity
RALPH NADER p. 19
Ezra Klein and his vast inner space
TED RALL p. 19
How do you feel about Sarah Palin? It shouldn’t matter
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 20
Fierce urgency of now
ROB PATTERSON p. 20
When rock-and-rollers grow up
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 20
Unfair labor practice strike at California art college
ED RAMPELL p. 21
Melancholy danes: A Scandinavian Sunset Blvd.
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Was the Super Bowl Halftime Show a “missed opportunity”?
SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 21
Manchurian Candidate, 2.0
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Stop gun violence: A Valentine’s Day plea from the heart
BONNIE JEAN FELDKAMP p. 22
Arrested? How making bail determines your experience with our justice system
DANA MILBANK p. 23
Sixty years later, right-wingers join the counterculture
GENE NICHOL p. 23
The problem with Democrats
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