The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
October 15, 2021 -- Volume 27, Number 18


TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Hal Crowther p. 1
‘The Gates of Hell’ — swinging wide?
EDITORIAL p. 2
Democrats are on their own

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Work, sweat die: The price of really hot jobs.
We should look back for our future.
FRANK LINGO p. 3
Plastic is poisoning the planet

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Best defunding model we’ve never heard of

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Finding the consequences in pesticides
DISPATCHES p. 5
Trump campaign knew Big Lie was baseless, memo reveals.
Coup plan called for Pence to declare Trump winner by leaving out 7 states.
Violence from far right anti-vax/anti-maskers keeps ratcheting higher.
Supreme Court brief gives away the right’s aborion game.
COVID cases, deaths rising among children across the US.
Media still plays down Afghanistan evacuation.
Hacker group 'Anonymous' spills secrets of extreme right. ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Republican excesses bring new hope to Democrats
ART CULLEN p. 6
Conservation agriculture buoys an Iowa farmer through drought

JOHN YOUNG p. 6
Requiem for an anti-vax evangelist

GENE LYONS p. 7
What’s next? Leeches?
JILL RICHARDSON p. 7
Spreading vaccine misinformation is dangerous and wrong

ALAN GUEBERT p. 7
The old economics of new agriculture: Drive or be driven
DICK POLMAN p. 8
For at least one day, MAGA was reduced to MehGA

ROBERT KUTTNER p. 9
Biden’s build back better plan is first and foremost a jobs plan
CHUCK COLLINS p. 9
The simplest, most effective, and popular way to fund the jobs bill
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 9
Crisis? What crisis?

TOM CONWAY p. 10
Course correction in labor relations
RICHARD D. WOLFF p. 10
Understanding the basics of 21st-century democracy, autocracy and capitalism
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Biden is acting no better toward migrants
DEAN BAKER p. 11
Cost disease socialism: The Niskanen Center’s unnecessary fight
REBEKAH ENTRALGO p. 11
Unemployment insurance isn’t holding back the economy. Inequality is.
THOM HARTMANN p. 12
Why threats of violence are epidemic in America

KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 12
It’s time to break up the military-industrial complex
SONALI KOLHATKAR p. 13
With Texas abortion ban, only privileged get access to reproductive care
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
What happened to the GOP that stood for limited government?
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Immigration rules should be clear and the playing field even
DR. CINTLI p. 14
A Denny’s experience

SATIRE/Rosie Sorenson p. 14
The nose knows

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Vaccines: Beyond mandates

SAM URETSKY p. 15
Wonder drugs for COVID leave scientists wondering

GABE BANKMAN-FRIED p. 15
Prepare for the next pandemic today

WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Southern discomfort
JOHN BUELL p. 16
Secrecy’s deadly toll

JASON SIBERT p. 16
We need to prioritize security needs

JUAN COLE p. 17
At UN, Biden pivots from 20-year war to global alliance against the climate emergency
N. GUNASEKARAN p. 17
‘Inequality virus’ strikes Asian poor
JOE CONASON p. 18
Hands off Gen. Milley
JAMIE STIEHM p. 18
Biden faces a long fall with chill winds
BARRY FRIEDMAN p. 18
Trump on Tulsa time

RALPH NADER p. 19
What gives with newspapers’ graphic artists?
TED RALL p. 19
Taliban cops aren’t as bad as American cops
BOOK REVIEW/Heather Seggel p. 20
Not both, but all

ROB PATTERSON p. 20
Ali, soul of the sweet science

BOB BURNETT p. 20
What did we learn from the California recall?

MOVIE REVIEW/Ed Rampell p. 21
New Muhammad Ali docuseries chronicles the life of ‘The Greatest’ athlete and activist

MARK ANDERSON p. 21
Can you count on your digits in a cashless society?

SETH SANDRONSKY p. 21
Protecting workers and communities

AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Haitians fleeing ‘unacceptable misery’ greeted by whips and shackles at US border
BONNIE JEAN FELDKAMP p. 22
Breastfeeding moms need support to succeed
DANA MILBANK p. 23
Leaderless Republicans rush headlong toward default
GENE NICHOL p. 23
Reminding Texas that it is part of the United States

Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen


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