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COVER/Hal Crowther p. 1
Dark clouds gathering: homegrown fascists show their teeth
EDITORIAL p. 2
Docs flee red states
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Chicken Littles are now attacking public schools. How perverse is the GOP’s book-banning crusade? What? Progress in Mississippi? Seriously? Checking the price you pay for corporate food.
FRANK LINGO p. 3
Forest fires: Causes and solutions
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Televangelism reconsidered
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Good words from a new king
DISPATCHES p. 5
House GOP hellbent on tanking economy—one way or another.
Progressives call for swift confirmation of Anna Gomez to FCC.
Putin issues MAGA-approved sanction list.
Rail workers union wins ‘trailblazing’ paid sick leave deal with Norfolk Southern.
Big win for antitrust, as judge blocks JetBlue, American Airlines alliance.
Wind and solar energy saved Texans $11B, but Republicans want to curb it ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Donald Trump is not our type, believe me
ART CULLEN p. 6
Border crisis defies compromise
ALAN GUEBERT p. 6
USDA 2023 forecasts: Colossal crops, measly prices and little backslapping
GENE LYONS p. 7
CNN ‘Town Hall’ was anything but journalism
VERONICA AVILA and p. 7
MARIA MONTGOMERY
Gig work is getting dangerous
JOHN YOUNG p. 7
Pep rally for fascism on CNN
ELWOOD WATSON p. 8
Biden’s white supremacy comments hit the mark, and one republican senator
JOE CONASON p. 9
While one ‘scandal’ fizzles, another sizzles
DICK POLMAN p. 9
Trump says he’s ‘honored’ that his high court erased Roe v. Wade. But the abortion issue is his Achilles Heel.
TOM CONWAY p. 10
House Republicans mount personal attack on working people
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 10
The budget farce: A travesty in two acts
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
No more hoisting immigration woes on COVID — the end of Title 42
DEAN BAKER p. 11
Will Biden pull it out in the 14th?
SAM PIZZIGATI p. 11
To protect our children, tax the rich
SONALI KOLHATKAR p. 12
The game-changing promise of an OTC birth control pill
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 12
Is this the most dangerous right-wing think tank you’ve never heard of?
THOM HARTMANN p. 13
Trump couldn’t be a Russian asset ... could he?
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
It is now democracy vs. authoritarianism. There can be no compromise.
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Military prowess provides neither peace nor strength
DR. CINTLI p. 14
Death, dying and honoring those we love: Part 1
GENE NICHOL p. 14
The banner day in North Carolina
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Nursing homes, or pricing grandma
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Government can’t deliver to rural areas in frugal times
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Explaining America’s gun fetish
RICHARD D. WOLFF p. 16
The debt ceiling debate is a massive deception against the public
JUAN COLE p. 17
China and the axis of the sanctioned: How America’s divide-and-rule strategy in the Middle East backfired
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
Children: No shelter from storms of the ‘60s
BARRY FRIEDMAN p. 18
American faces
SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 18
Where eagles dare
RALPH NADER p. 19
The sadistic GOP’s debt limit ploy vs. the people
TED RALL p. 19
Bring back New Yor’s transit police
LAURA PRITCHETT p. 20
Guns have changed everything, especially childhood
KEN WINKES p. 20
The fever wanes but never goes away
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 20
Strike! Writers Guild of America west members stop work
FILM REVIEW/Ed Rampell p. 21
Hollywood blacklist: ‘Cloak and Dagger’ and the Hollywood blacklist
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Ron DeSantis’s anti-trans agenda exiles Dwayne Wade, NBA superstar and loving father
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Hiroshima’s nuclear lesson: The G7 must push for peace in Ukraine
BONNIE JEAN FELDKAMP p. 22
I’m no Martha Stewart. I just want to leave my vanity in the past.
DANA MILBANK p. 23
The day free-market Republicans became Soviet economic planners
ALEXANDRA PETRI p. 23
George Santos resign? That’s the last thing he should do!
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