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COVER/Sarah Jane Tribble p. 1
What mobile clinics in Dollar General parking lots say about health care in rural America
EDITORIAL p. 2
Chaos rules the House
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Look who’s behind the know-nothing ‘no labels’ party.
Bribery, bad — campaign donations, good?
Let’s get real: Billionaires are nuts!
A thundering herd of bankers robbing Oklahoma City taxpayers.
FRANK LINGO p. 3
Commander’s side of the story
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
In defense of scrap culture
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Debt before dishonor
DISPATCHES p. 5
UAW wins protection for GM battery plant workers in concession. Members strike at Mack Trucks facilities after rejecting deal.
Media works hard on spinning good jobs numbers into bad economic news.
Texas attorney general files criminal complaints against impeachment managers.
Trump boasts support from Hannibal Lecter.
Guns now leading cause of accidental deaths for kids.
RFK Jr. siblings denounce independent run ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Bring back locked mental facilities
ART CULLEN p. 6
Give me a home where the buffalo roam
ALAN GUEBERT p. 6
Fake meat is mostly a fake-out for now
GENE LYONS p. 7
Silencing scientists, doctors in the name of ‘freedom’
DENISE KOHR p. 7
The price of Amazon’s ‘Prime’ business model is our bodies
JOHN YOUNG p. 7
Court-adjudicated as baloney
SAM PIZZIGATI p. 8
Time for a general strike on Dollar General
DICK POLMAN p. 9
Burning down the house: Purging their own speaker is another chapter in the long saga of Republican dysfunction
JOE CONASON p. 9
What the Biden impeachment inquiry has proved
SHAILLY GUPTA BARNES p. 9
A wake up call on poverty
TOM CONWAY p. 10
Fighting killer dust
LES LEOPOLD p. 10
The inside story of how Wall Street fleeced GM autoworkers and taxpayers
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
What Taylor Swift can do for football
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 11
The EU’s tough new rules for tech
THOM HARTMANN p. 12
The GOP’s ‘Red Caesar’ plan marches forward
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 12
Want to know how far-reaching the right-wing movement against free expression in schools is?
SONALI KOLHATKAR p. 13
Kids shouldn’t have to pay for school lunches
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
Is the Trump fever starting to break?
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Public education is vital to a democracy
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Sweet charity: A hospital’s take on the virtue
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Does a college education pay off?
FARRAH HASSEN p. 15
Suing for a livable planet
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Labor’s moment
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 16
Taking to the streets to get homeless into houses
JUAN COLE p. 17
EVs selling like hotcakes: 1 million sold in US during past year — which is why UAW workers deserve Green New Deal
MEL GURTOV p. 17
Alarm over Kim Jong Un’s Russia trip
JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 17
Seize Starlink from Elon Musk
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
In defense of elders in politics
BARRY FRIEDMAN p. 18
A jury of my peers (part one)
GENE NICHOL p. 18
Race and the NC Supreme Court
RALPH NADER p. 19
Good news — big opportunities on the horizon
JEFF COHEN and p. 19
NORMAN SOLOMON
Shifting 2024 strategy further reveals RFK Jr. is no friend to progressives
DAVE MARSTON p. 20
Goats can be a forest’s best friend
ROB PATTERSON p. 20
Peter O’Toole’s thespian greatness
SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 20
We’ve evolved, why haven’t they?
ED RAMPELL p. 21
Filmmaker connects dots between fugitive slave law and modern-day ‘Karens’
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
How DeSantis is using sports to hijack a Florida college
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
This is not a test: Domestic Violence Awareness and Prevention Month
BONNIE JEAN FELDKAMP p. 22
Banned books show us how terrified parents really are about sex education
DANA MILBANK p. 23
McCarthy’s gone. Republican dysfunction is here to stay.
ALEXANDRA PETRI p. 23
I, Matt Gaetz, have done everything right!
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