DEPARTMENTS 5 EDITOR’S NOTE
by ALEXANDRA TEMPUS Hypernormal Hypnosis 6 COMMENT by RANN MILLER It ’s Morning Again in America,
but Will We Remain Asleep? 8 FURTHER COMMENT
by JOHN NICHOLS The United States Has a
Colony Problem 11 NO COMMENT 14 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 15 BLAST FROM THE PAST 16 ON THE LINE
by ENCARNI PINDADO A Burdened Mexican Immigration
System Prepares for Additional Pressure 38 ONE QUESTION Q: What Laws and Guardrails
Exist to Restrain Donald Trump? Bill Blum and Marjorie Cohn reply
55 INTERVIEW WITH
U.S. REPRESENTATIVE GREG CASAR by CHRISTOPHER D. COOK Can the Progressive Caucus Take
Democrats in a New Direction? 58 SMOKING GUN All the President’s Nativists 59 BOOK EXCERPT Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education by Jesse Hagopian 62 BOOK REVIEWS Murder the Truth: Fear, the
First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful reviewed by Bill Lueders Money, Lies, and God: Inside the
Movement to Destroy American Democracy reviewed by Eleanor J. Bader Dangerous Learning: The South’s
Long War on Black Literacy reviewed by Brian Gilmore 69 POEM by ANDRÉ NAFFIS-SAHELY The Regime of the Colonels
VOICES 12 FIRST-PERSON SINGULAR
by IFEOLUWA M. OLAWOLE Black Womanhood and
Hair as Resistance 20 MIDDLE AMERICA
by RUTH CONNIFF What U.S. Progressives Can Learn from European Farmers 22 SMART ASS CRIPPLE
by MIKE ERVIN Keeping the Profiteers Out of Home and Community-Based Services 24 WORK WON’T LOVE YOU BACK
by SARAH JAFFE Making Luigi Mangione Inevitable
28 FIRST THINGS FIRST
by BILL LUEDERS Defend the Press Against
Trump’s Attacks 65 HEMMING AND HAWING
by NEGIN FARSAD Ending Ever-Escalating
CEO Pay 66 ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA
by WAJAHAT ALI Welcome to the United States of ‘Broligarchy, Inc.’ 68 EDGE OF SPORTS by DAVE ZIRIN Jesse Owens and the Anniversary
We Should Remember 70 VOX POPULIST by JIM HIGHTOWER Jimmy Carter’s Light Exposes
Donald Trump’s Darkness and Making Work Work for Workers
ON THE COVER
Kendrick Daye is a multimedia artist and art director whose work imagines a future where Black queer life is prosperous, fully represented, and thriving. Daye is also the creator of the Black Queer Tarot, a seventy-eight-card deck that reimagines the traditional major and minor arcana with all Black queer figures.
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