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COVER/Sonali Kolhatkar p. 1
How corporate food monopolies caused the baby formula ‘scandal’
EDITORIAL p. 2
Vote to stop the Court coup
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
From lame president to lame duck.
The health care industry’s medical debt rip-off.
Education is opportunity.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Christo-politics comes to the court
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Monitor right-wing media
DISPATCHES p. 5
Moderating wage growth means the Fed won’t need to raise interest rates further to contain inflation.
Rising minimum wages in 20 states and localities help protect workers and families against higher prices.
Biden signs executive order to protect abortion rights.
Michigan groups submit signatures to put abortion rights on the ballot.
Midterm generic ballot shows gains for Dems as indies move from Republicans.
US voters want Congress to expand—not cut or privatize—Social Security.
California will make its own insulin, creating competition in the pharmaceutical industry.
New calls to ban glyphosate after toxic herbicide found in 80% of US urine samples.
N.C. Republicans want state to destroy free EV charging sttions.
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Biden is, actually, doing well
ART CULLEN p. 6
We keep waiting for the signal
ALAN GUEBERT p. 6
Market forecast for summer: Cloudy with a chance of hardheadedness
GENE LYONS p. 7
Will the American people let the tyrannical minority rule?
SULMA ARIAS p. 7
To defend our rights, defend our democracy
JOHN YOUNG p. 7
What non-voters have wrought
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 8
A pattern of cruelty
MARTHA BURK p. 8
Most Americans support abortion rights. Do your leaders?
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 9
Seizing the opening for Democrats
DICK POLMAN p. 9
Catholic Ireland is more progressive than America about abortion. Think about that.
TOM CONWAY p. 10
Gouging Americans out of house and home
BOB BURNETT p. 10
The new Civil War: The 50-year conservative plan
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
From the heartland, the GOP launches a trial balloon
DEAN BAKER p. 11
‘Neoliberals’ do not like a free market, but they want you to think they do
FRANK LINGO p. 11
Supreme Court kneecaps EPA
MITCHELL ZIMMERMAN p. 12
We have a smoking gun — indict Trump
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 12
Prosecutorial reform will outlive Chesa Boudin’s recall
THOM HARTMANN p. 13
How Medicare Advantage scammers get away with it
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
The beginning of the end of regulation
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
The Supreme Court’s right-wing crusade
DR. CINTLI p. 14
Teotihuacan: City of the Gods — the city in the sky
BELLA DEVAAN p. 14
A pastor marches for a moral economy
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Misogyny redux: Guidelines for a post-Dobbs world
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Time for everything
JOE CONASON p. 15
On July Fourth, appreciation for the truly patriotic conservatives
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
The rise of autocratic capitalism
AARON RUPAR p. 16
Kristi Noem’s ghoulish Sunday TV tour showed how hard women’s lives will become in deep red states
JUAN COLE p. 17
The right-wing US Supreme Court is the new King George III
JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 17
What the US can learn from the Israeli Supreme Court
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
A pearl of hope for an unhappy birthday
BARRY FRIEDMAN p. 18
Blood and ketchup
PETER CERTO p. 18
An ugly new era of ‘states’ rights’
RALPH NADER p. 19
The continuing damages from corporate-managed so-called free trade
TED RALL p. 19
Supreme Court to progressives: Wake up
JAMES M. CULLEN p. 20
After 240 years in the background, matriarchy is due for a comeback, historian says.
ROB PATTERSON p. 20
Modern rock band Spoon makes music for these times & the ages
MOVIE REVIEW/Seth Sandronsky p. 21
‘Hustle’ never drags
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
A football coach’s prayer is not about freedom. It’s about coercion.
SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 21
Coup coup ca-choo, Mrs. Robinson
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
It’s past time to declare independence from assault weapons
BONNIE JEAN FELDKAMP p. 22
Who will help the women?
DANA MILBANK p. 23
Give Biden a break
GENE NICHOL p. 23
Originalist B.S.
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