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COVER/Robert Kuttner p. 1
Breaking up (with China) is hard to do
EDITORIAL p. 2
GOP’s ammosexual base
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Would Wall Street kill your granny for a little more profit?
Love to you from Valentine, Texas.
Who taught George Santos to be such a self-serving fraud?
Prevaricating for profit.
FRANK LINGO p. 3
Nature’s rights are coming soon
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Freedom of the press: A primer and mission
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMIllen p. 5
Too many kids lost to gun violence, with no relief in sight
DISPATCHES p. 5
GOP taking budget advice from Trump official who wants to cut $2 trillion from Medicaid.
Biden raises Social Security and Medicare awareness and makes GOP look like fools.
Amid Ohio nightmare, rail workers alliance urges labor to back railroad nationalization.
House Republican on Texas border says asylum bill ‘has 0% chance of getting signed.’
Gregg Abbott’s border photo op needs $460 million to get through the summer...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Politics and the Michigan mass shooting
ART CULLEN p. 6
The Iowa way is really a big corporate con using Jesus as a prop
ALAN GUEBERT p. 6
Biggest foreign owner of US ‘Ag Land’ isn’t who you think
GENE LYONS p. 7
Sarah Sanders’ ‘rebuttal’ had nothing to do with Biden’s address
EVETTE CLEMONS p. 7
Credit card holders get protection from fraud. Shouldn’t EPT users, too?
JOHN YOUNG p. 7
Biden bets on 21st century
MARK ANDERSON p. 8
Banking services return to the post office
DICK POLMAN p. 9
Are we really surprised that Joe Biden kicked ass?
JOE CONASON p. 9
Nobody can ever trust Fox News again
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 9
University of California and its union problem
TOM CONWAY p. 10
Knowledge and power
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 10
Union power requires an activist workforce
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Want to change police culture? Look to the sergeants
KAREN DOLAN p. 11
Biden presented a bold agenda. Can he back it up?
DICK POLMAN p. 11
The IRS is taking your calls. So much for that MAGA lie about ‘an army of 87,000 agents.’
THOM HARTMANN p. 12
Is the “Horse & Sparrow” economic scam returning?
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 12
Bullying librarians is for know-nothings
SONALI KOLHATKAR p. 13
Behold, the new GOP culture wars
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
How do we get democracy back into presidential elections?
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Automatic voter registration a sensible first step
DR. CINTLI p. 14
Breathing free, living free
BRETT WILKINS p. 14
Climate groups cheer bill to tax big oil windfall profits
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
The invasion of BIG E
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Keeping up with the infrastructure
FARRAH HASSEN p. 15
How the world can help after the Middle East earthquake
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Union Joe rides again
JOHN P. GEYMAN p. 16
Chaos with dysfunction and inequality: What could go wrong?
MEL GURTOV p. 16
More on the China balloon episode: Much ado about very little
JUAN COLE p. 17
Iran’s Raisi visits Beijing, signs 20 agreements, as Iranian Lion and Chinese ‘Yellow Dragon’ seek to outflank US pressure
DAVID SUZUKI p. 17
Humanity can no longer tolerate corporations that exist almost entirely to make money
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
Presidents Lincoln, Trump and confederates to this day
BARRY FRIEDMAN p. 18
Dahlia Lithwick’s 30 hours in Tulsa
REBEKAH ENTRALGO p. 18
Biden is right: You shouldn’t pay a higher tax rate than billionaires
RALPH NADER p. 19
Rescue our democratic society: Consitutionally render corporations unequal to humans
TED RALL p. 19
What police reform should look like
RICHARD KNIGHT p. 20
The West is an exploiter’s paradise
ROB PATTERSON p. 20
Keep funding Dick Wolf
SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 20
Beware the chatter
FILM REVIEW/Ed Rampell p. 21
Review: ‘Killing County’
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Why people don’t even trust the Super Bowl
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
A bomb train hits East Palestine, Ohio
BONNIE JEAN FELDKAMP p. 22
What’s more dangerous, a gang member or an activist?
DANA MILBANK p. 23
Yes, weaponization committee. We are all out to get you.
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