The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
December 1, 2005 -- Volume 11, Number 21
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Michael Scherer and Mark Benjamin
Where do Libby’s lies lead?

EDITORIAL
Liars & enablers; Kick him again, Harry

JIM HIGHTOWER
Booms for whom? Economic disconnect; Extra burden on the poor; Revealing Wal-Mart; Lame on gas gougers; Best idea since sliced bread.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Blunt trauma

DISPATCHES
Pride, prejudice, insurance; Alito unifies ...

PAUL FREUNDLICH
Community workers improve health care
KRISTIN VAN TASSEL
What to take from the flood
ROCKY BARKER
Are we ready to learn lessons of fire, flood?
GENE LYONS
Too clever by half
CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
In pursuit of liberty and human progress

JOE CONASON
Libby takes the fall
SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL
Bush’s bunker strategy
JOHN PASSACANTANDO
Hurricanes spawn oil industry scams
JOHN NICHOLS
Democrats finally show some spine
MICHAEL SCHERER
Abramoff-Scanlon school of sleaze
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Bush: Of Mojo and MacBeth
JAMES O. CASTAGNERA
Fool me once, shame on you ...

GREG LeROY
Wal-Mart’s hidden subsidies
JASON LEOPOLD
Vice president lied to defuse inquiry
NATHAN NEWMAN
Wonks undermine anti-Wal-Mart campaign

MARK WEISBROT
Bernanke could face trouble
ROGER HICKEY
The wages of victory
MUCKRAKER/Amanda G. Little
Alito’s not-so-clean record
JESSE JACKSON
Alito nomination slaps Parks’ legacy
GEORGE BERES
Chicago Greeks bear awkward gift
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Santa stalled in Medicare-limbo

SAM URETSKY
Discounting health care

ROB RICHIE & RYAN O’DONNELL
Get absentee ballots to N.O. refugees
MOKHIBER & WEISSMAN
Ford’s toxic legacy
WAYNE O’LEARY
Creating a new bogeyman

RANDOLPH HOLHUT
How to avoid Iraqi civil war
ROBERT HAYES
Open season on seniors
AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Quiet wrath of three sisters
ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Alito nomination
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Students rise to challenge
TED RALL
Bigger than Watergate
ART CULLEN
Buyers’ remorse

BILL CULLEN
Pro-life politics should help families

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Growing opposition to PATRIOT Act

DAVE ZWEIFEL
Tax panel set for another fast one
JOYCE MARCEL
Some, not enough, karma comes home
MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
After Libby indictment, press acquits self
POET/Michael Silverstein
Faithful old retainer (Dick Cheney poem)
MOLLY IVINS
Blessed stubbornness; Escape from pickle factory; America needs old friends.
DONALD KAUL
Wheels coming off


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