The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
August 1-15, 2003 -- Volume 9, Number 14
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Jamin B. Raskin
Liberals win culture war! Populists up next

EDITORIAL
Get on your horse and ride

JIM HIGHTOWER
Dishonoring America's troops; George, the truth deflector; Centralization of news; Librarians defend liberty; Plan for DeMarcracy; Teaching commercialism.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Building our own pyramid

DISPATCHES
Homeland security nabs Irish grandma

FRANCIS THICKE
Naturally, hogs don't stink

PAUL D. JOHNSON
Save landmark farm conservation program

REBECCA CLARREN
Cheap salmon, hidden costs

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Farmers, don't whine, organize!

TED RALL
Crack in Bush's facade

MARGIE BURNS
The pens of August

MARK ENGLER
Beyond the war on terror

MOKHIBER & WEISSMAN
Bush administration causing repetitive stress

JOHN BUELL
Half a loaf or worse

DAVE ZWEIFEL
Despite naysayers, government works

NATHAN NEWMAN
Loss for gay rights

J. MILCHEN & J. KAPLAN
Saving corporations from themselves?

SHERYL FRED
Chamber takes a chance on lawsuit 'reform'

MAX SAWICKY
Going flat

BERNARD WEINER
Re-lighting the torches of America's soul

SR. JOAN CHITTISTER
Does anything matter?

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Africa's Saddams bely Bush's rhetoric

JOE LERSKY
Words fail us in wartime

JESSE JACKSON
Issues that transcend race

GENE LYONS
Does Gen. Clark have the hunger?

JOHN NICHOLS
Dean wins momentum

ROB PATTERSON
RIAA their own worst enemy

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
The future of the Supreme Court

WAYNE O'LEARY
Opening Iraq for (big) business

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Big money touts centrist Democrats

ROB RICHIE & STEVEN HILL
Re-redistricting is an ugly power grab

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Sacred spaces, sacred sites

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
The enemy within

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Drug coverage a Christmas present

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Big malpractice 'reform' lie

FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
Dump Bush, build independent politics

SEN. ROBERT BYRD
Coverup is the road to ruin

CHARLES LEVENDOSKY
Court shucks duty to check executive power

BOOKS/ALVENA BIERI
Flat broke with children

MOLLY IVINS
Presto-change-o; Supreme tantrums; Happy birthday USA!

DONALD KAUL
Iraq not Vietnam, yet


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