The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
April 15, 2023 -- Volume 29, Number 7


TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Dick Polman p. 1
America’s tragedy: A pandemic of willful ignorance
EDITORIAL p. 2
The indictable man

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Get ready for roving bands of book-banners coming to your town.
How despicable are Big Pharma’s insulin price gougers?
Are the women in your state legislature properly attired?
Why the GOP should undergo remedial diversity training.
FRANK LINGO p. 3
Stop product testing on animals
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Big league baseball: You win some ... and might lose ‘em

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMIllen p. 5
Why would a lab in Wuhan be studying the COVID virus?

DISPATCHES p. 5
Former Texas governor led Reagan’s effort to sabotage Jimmy Carter’s re-election, urged Iran to keep US hostages.
Republican attacks on SNAP could take food aid from 10 million.
DeSantis threw Trump under the bus.
Repubs agree ‘hush’ payments are crimes ...

FROMA HARROP p. 6
Before DeSantis, Miami was fun
ART CULLEN p. 6
Politicians want to snuff the light of information and cast you in darkness

ALAN GUEBERT p. 6
‘Right to repair’ fight between farmers and machinery giants just getting started

GENE LYONS p. 7
March Madness and murder investigations shouldn’t mix
LINDA BENESCH p. 7
Inequality costs Social Security trillions. Here’s how we can fix it.

JOHN YOUNG p. 7
‘Woke’ phantoms behind school walls

JOE CONASON p. 8
What to do now about Fox ‘News’
THOM HARTMANN p. 9
Can we stop the greed-heads from their destruction of banking & more?

TOM CONWAY p. 10
Keep the DOL fighting for workers

ROBERT KUTTNER p. 10
There are worse things than mild inflation

MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
The empathy of a child informs the wisdom of a justice — Sonia Sotomayor
DEAN BAKER p. 11
This big bank bailout brought to you by Donald J. Trump
KAREN DOLAN p. 11
Biden’s budget would level the playing field and reduce the deficit
ROBERT C. KOEHLER p. 12
Staying woke: Revering life

KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 12
GOP has become the pro-child labor party
SONALI KOLHATKAR p. 13
Why student debt cancellation is reasonable, not radical

ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
Let’s talk about two big upcoming theatrical performances
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Selma’s mirror
DR. CINTLI p. 14
The 1524 Dialogues Part II

GENE NICHOL p. 14
North Carolina’s supreme transgression

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Dystopian health-speak: Medical freedom

SAM URETSKY p. 15
The rule of judges

JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 15
Silicon Valley Bank was killed by the Federal Reserve Board

WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
The great distraction

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 16
Eco-terrorism is real and driven by corporate capitalism

PAUL ARMENTANO p. 16
In the era of legal marijuana, the kids are alright

JUAN COLE p. 17
Boycotters of Israel were denounced as Antisemites, but now 225 US Jewish businessmen threaten to pull investments over Netanyahu’s plan to gut courts
N. GUNASEKARAN p. 17
A world free of hunger: Is it achievable?

PETER CERTO p. 17
20 years on, what did the Iraq war truly cost?

JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
Biden’s dilemma: To run with Harris again?
BARRY FRIEDMAN p. 18
In defense of Julian Assange

SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 18
Ron De Sanitization
RALPH NADER p. 19
Haass’s ten civic obligations need facilities to address abuses of power
TED RALL p. 19
Death to the greedheads of premiumization
JONATHAN THOMPSON p. 20
Chronicle of an abandoned oil and gas well — one of millions

ROB PATTERSON p. 20
‘Godfather of Harlem’ mixes fact and fiction with flair

ED RAMPELL p. 20
The best political movie since Z is runner-up for an Oscar

EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Banning trans athletes is just the beginning
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
20 years after the invasion of Iraq, Bush Administration lies still take lives
BONNIE JEAN FELDKAMP p. 22
My day in family court: Our lawmakers are focused on the wrong things
DANA MILBANK p. 23
Kevin McCarthy join the insurrection. Jim Jordan comes up empty — again.

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