The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
September 15, 2023 -- Volume 29, Number 16 å


TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Hal Crowther p. 1
Apocalypse when?

EDITORIAL p. 2
Crime and punishment, eventually

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Why the GOP is becoming a clique of rabid political veterinarians.
Democrats should help Republicans publicize ‘Project 2025.’
Breaking news: New life for local newspapers.
It’s hot ... and Joe Biden has a website for that.
FRANK LINGO p. 3
Montana youths win major climate case

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Corporate personhood: A tale worth the telling

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Missouri joins states that discourage conscientious investors

DISPATCHES p. 5
House ‘Freedom Caucus’ is ready to force government shutdown.
Trump only cares about Trump. Trump voters only care about Trump. Trump co-conspirators are screwed.
Trump dominates Iowa, too. Republicans don’t care their guy might be a literal criminal.
Mississippi’s culture of cruelty shows itself again, and again post-Dobbs.
Shocking new data about Trump cult ...

FROMA HARROP p. 6
Trump’s nightmare: A prosecutor who can’t be baited
ART CULLEN p. 6
An attack on freedom in Kansas

ALAN GUEBERT p. 6
August reports show continued loss of export markets

GENE LYONS p. 7
Televise the trials
ROBERT C. KOEHLER p. 7
Water is life — for the privileged

JOHN YOUNG p. 7
No greater crime than this

GENE NICHOL p. 8
A course correction in North Carolina?

ED RAMPELL p. 9
All the way with RFK Jr.?

DICK POLMAN p. 9
Trump and his Georgia racketeers goose-stepped into the lives of Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman

TOM CONWAY p. 10
Essential safeguards for oil workers
SAM PIZZIGATI p. 10
The Tesla take on ‘sharing’ the wealth

JULIA CONLEY p. 10
UAW ramps up pressure on Biden to protect workers in electric vehicle transition

MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Barbie’s dreamland needs Ken after all
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 11
Will Biden have enough chips in 2024?
THOM HARTMANN p. 12
Why billionaires fund anti-trans & anti-Black-history political movements

KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 12
Cooperatives: Is this a form of capitalism progressives can embrace?
SONALI KOLHATKAR p. 13
The rise of private cops: How not to tackle homelessness
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
Revoke Trump’s release pending trial
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
The sensible, the mad and the missing
JESSICA CORBETT p. 14
After catastropic fire, locals fear Lahaina rebuild dominated by rich outsiders

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
When greed and cruelty collide: Amputations
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Handwriting becomes obsolete

JAKE JOHNSON p. 15
Sky-high US housing costs fuel record surge in homelessness

WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Stuck in neutral

LAURA CLAWSON p. 16
DeSantis takeover has left Florida’s New College in shambles as new school year starts

JUAN COLE p. 17
Trouble for Ambraham Accords: Saudis try to establish East Jerusalem consulate for Palestinians, but extremist Israeli government says, ‘No!’
WINSLOW MYERS p. 17
Lahaina and global reality

JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
Nixon vs. Trump: An adventure story
BARRY FRIEDMAN p. 18
Panting in Norway

SETH SANDRONSKY p. 18
California’s coastal rental costs highest in the US

RALPH NADER p. 19
Develop an exit strategy for the endless war in Ukraine

TED RALL p. 19
We came, we dithered, we died
SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 19
Sometimes a satellite is just a satellite
GREGORY MCNAMEE p. 20
Wildland firefighters need our support

ROB PATTERSON p. 20
Where’s the music to help inspire today’s much needed resistance?

ART CULLEN p. 20
Rockin’ with the Boss

FILM REVIEW/Ed Rampell p. 21
‘Walid’: Hot on the trail of the traffickers

EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Why the right wanted the USWNT to lose
OBITUARY p. 21
Roberto “Dr. Cintli” Rodrigues, R.I.P.

AMY GOODMAN p. 22
The climate conflagration rages, from Maui to Montana
BONNIE JEAN FELDKAMP p. 22
A good marriage is never a burden
DANA MILBANK p. 23
Republicans who fought Biden’s agenda now claim credit for it
ALEXANDRA PETRI p. 23
91 charges later, indictment fatigue is the Trump era in a nutshell.

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