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COVER/ProPublica p. 1
How Cigna saves millions by having its doctors reject claims without reading them
EDITORIAL p. 2
Fox ‘News’ will defame again
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
What if Democrats decided to campaign as real Democrats?
How many words does it take to say ‘class war’?
GOP ‘preemption’ is a euphemism for creeping autocracy.
Why isn’t the death of local news national news?
FRANK LINGO p. 3
Emperor of the Earth
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
When politicians do the hiring
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
College isn’t for everybody, but it works for a lot
DISPATCHES p. 5
Fox can claim tax writeoff for Dominion settlement.
Republicans move to block ballot initiatives on abortion rights.
Supreme Court allows states and cities to sue oil companies in state courts for climate damages.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he’ll challenge Biden’s re-election.
Montana Republicans tried to silence trans rep. They failed.
Republicans target Medicaid after failing to kill Obamacare.
Biden and voters agree: Raise the debt ceiling ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Do you worry that your bank is too liberal?
ART CULLEN p. 6
Cool the China rhetoric
ALAN GUEBERT p. 6
Coming up: Another round of the shameless, senseless SNAP fights
GENE LYONS p. 7
GOP’s hard lesson: You can’t legislate sexuality
KAREN DOLAN p. 7
A parents bill of rights for the rest of us
JOHN YOUNG p. 7
‘One dumb person’ doctrine at work
JOE CONASON p. 9
Why do Republicans lionize the leaker?
DICK POLMAN p. 9
What’s three quarters of a billion bucks anyway? For Fox News, it’s just the cost of doing business
SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 9
It’s all over now, baby blue
TOM CONWAY p. 10
Helping veterans navigate the homefront
LINDSAY KOSHGARIAN p. 10
Breaking down your tax bill
KALI DAUGHERTY p. 10
Don’t shed the safety net — expand it
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Our fear of mass shootings impacts our minds is surprising ways
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 11
Will the Fed wreck an improving economy?
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 11
Double trouble: Water and workers in California’s Imperial County
THOM HARTMANN p. 12
What’s behind GOP’s war against democracy?
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 12
Why do the richest Americans live a decade longer than the poorest?
SONALI KOLHATKAR p. 13
What I learned from Kevin Alexander Gray
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
How to become one of Clarence and Ginni’s dearest friends
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Blessed are the children
DR. CINTLI p. 14
Running and dancing: Traditions of endurance
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
A variation on the healthcare game of ‘gotcha’: The facility fee
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Getting old is serious business
NIJMIE DZURINKO p. 15
Medicaid cutoffs: An American horror story
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Joe Biden’s French lesson
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 16
Higher Ed organizing is part of the fight to transform work
JUAN COLE p. 17
Assault on religious freedom: Violent crackdown by Israeli police on Christian worshipers in Jerusalem
JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 17
Biden’s Blarney: What Joe Biden did not say to the Irish Parliament
MARK ANDERSON p. 17
Indies gather to proclaim ‘Both sides do it’
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
Missing ‘DiFi’ in the Senate: A dilemma for Democrats
BARRY FRIEDMAN p. 18
What if Democrats were Republicans?
MITCHELL ZIMMERMAN p. 18
Trump’s Al Capone moment
RALPH NADER p. 19
Be a Capitol Hill Citizen on your Congress
TED RALL p. 19
The unpersoning of anti-Biden Democrats
DAVE MARSTON p. 20
A Colorado reservoir gets ready for an epic snowmelt
ROB PATTERSON p. 20
Documentaries trace three Black lives that mattered
ChRISTOPHER HARRIS p. 20
Support librarians by rejecting book bans.
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Oakland A’s are moving to Vegas. Could the Yankees be next?
ED RAMPELL p. 21
‘More Completely Blacklisted’: Remembering John Howard Lawson
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
The gruesome death of Lashawn Thompson in the Fulton County Jail
BONNIE JEAN FELDKAMP p. 22
The slippery slope of the Second Amendment and what it means to bear arms
DANA MILBANK p. 23
Republicans follow their new leader — Marjorie Taylor Greene
ALEXANDRA PETRI p. 23
After the Dominion suit, things here at Fox will be different!
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