The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
December 15, 2023 -- Volume 29, Number 22


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COVER/Reed Abelson, NYT p. 1
and Jordan Rau, KFF Health News
Facing financial ruin as costs soar for elder care
EDITORIAL p. 2
Steady Joe vs. Lyin’ Don

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
The billionaires behind school privatization. How things work: Congress’ revolving door. Astonishing: A trailer park story with a happy ending! Humanities humanize our society. So ‘kill ‘em,’ say right wingers.
FRANK LINGO p. 3
Mother trees: Wisdom of the forest

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
The modified servant model

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Too many people with too few resources fuel war

DISPATCHES p. 5
Trump mocks Jimmy Carter, continues fascist rhetoric, vowing to drive out the globalists.
Trump’s decline has flown under the radar.
‘No Labels’ is all grift.
UAW clinches record deals with Big 3, turns to organizing Tesla and foreign automakers.
Federal government is funded. What’s next?
Ohio GOP plans to gut constitutional amendment protecting abortion rights ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Actually, Biden is ‘polling’ really well
ART CULLEN p. 6
Food and peace
ALAN GUEBERT p. 6
Don’t just bury the CO2 pipelines; bury their very idea

GENE LYONS p. 7
Weather forecasters are right more often than political predictors
CHRISTINA JEMENEZ p. 7
I help seniors get health care. Shouldn’t I be able to afford my own?

JOHN YOUNG p. 7
Tongue-tied on reproductive rights

DICK POLMAN p. 9
Trump channels Adolf, vowing to ‘root out’ the ‘vermin.’ That’s Nazi talk. Wake up, America.

JOE CONASON p. 9
The mighty achievements of Joe Manchin

DAVID McCALL p. 10
Jobs today, jobs tomorrow

LES LEOPOLD p. 10
The UAW’s game changer: The right to strike over mass layoffs

BILAL BAYDOUN p. 10
How to make America more affordable

MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Insistence alone won’t erase the antisemitism of ‘From the river to the sea’
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 11
The next insulin scandal

THOM HARTMANN p. 12
Democrats can win by confronting crime

KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 12
Remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire
SONALI KOLHATKAR p. 13
Seeing through the economic bait and switch

ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
The Supreme Court’s new ‘code of ethics’ changes nothing
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
It is time to stop in Gaza
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
The case of home dialysis, or when money supports inertia

SAM URETSKY p. 15
Immovable force blocks military promotions

GENE NICHOL p. 15
Doing the impossible: Separating politics and race in North Carolina

WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
A tale of two motion pictures

JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 16
Plastic pollution is an existential threat to humans

JUAN COLE p. 17
Human-caused climate change cost U.S. $67 billion, produced hottest 12 months for 125,000 years

ROBERT C. KOEHLER p. 17
Militarism vs. our shared humanity

FARRAH HASSEN p. 17
Americans want a ceasefire. It’s our politicians who are out of touch.

JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
Washington diary watch: All’s not well

BARRY FRIEDMAN p. 18
If Biden loses, blame my wife

SETH SANDRONSKY p. 18
Private employers hire 113,000 new workers in October; pay growth slows

RALPH NADER p. 19
Worries from a major auto dealer about all electric cars

TED RALL p. 19
It’s not Biden’s age, stupids
ERNIE ATENCIO p. 20
Farewell to two radicals with a common goal — changing the West

ROB PATTERSON p. 20
A perfect song for our troubled times

SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 20
RobbieBot-1, Mike Johnson-0

ED RAMPELL p. 21
‘Rustin’ tells the full story of the March on Washington

EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
There is no space in the sports world to call for a free Palestine
ALEXANDRA PETRI p. 21
Congressional fight club is not a thing we need!
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
The undressed wounds of Gaza
BONNIE JEAN FELDKAMP p. 22
The hidden potential of a diamond in the rough
DANA MILBANK p. 23
The House is most definitely not in order

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