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COVER/Kim Zetter p. 1
Spooks on the Net
EDITORIAL p. 2
Time for truth; The immigration dodge
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Rise of American plutocracy; Congress does it again; Nardelli model; Corporatizing the border; Indelible stain of Gitmo; Ad creep advances.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Invest in energy independence
DISPATCHES p. 5
GOP agenda emerges; Premature cut-n-runners? Americans support good wars ...
THOMAS D. ROWLEY p. 6
Slashing Medicaid hurts rural areas most
REBECCA CLARREN p. 6
Health is casualty of fast-track gas drilling
TOM MINTER p. 6
Voting rights reflexes
GENE LYONS p. 7
Confronting country-club Napoleons
CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs p. 7
Whose WMDs endanger us most?
ART BRODSKY p. 9
Net neutrality diversion
MOKHIBER & WEISSMAN p. 9
Overthrow
GREG PALAST p. 10
Black voters scrubbed by secret GOP hit list
STEVE ROSENFELD p. 10
Jim Crow GOP
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 11
You can’t take Fox News out of the man
JOHN NICHOLS p. 11
Even GOP splits on marriage amendment
BETSY LEONDAR-WRIGHT p. 11
Income game stacked in whites’ favor
SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL p. 12
Surrealpolitik
BILL QUIGLEY p. 13
Feds to N.O. poor: F(ind) yourself (housing)!
MUCKRAKER/Amanda G. Little p. 14
Labor gains
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Big Oil has had its way much too long
DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 14
Voters are ready to send a message
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Sex, disease and zealots
HOLLY SKLAR p. 15
Congress should value workers
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Keep an eye on the doughnut hole
JOHN BUELL p. 16
Beyond ‘just say no’ and ‘just do it’
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Iraq: the three-state solution
N. GUNASEKARAN p. 17
Empires love monarchy
MARK WEISBROT p. 17
Latin American populism doing well
ANDREW LEONARD p. 17
Cocaine and free trade
AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez p. 18
The right to be anywhere on this continent
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
The Left and the blathersphere
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Money draws politics right
TED RALL p. 19
Irrelevant war on terror
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 20
Turning tide
MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon p. 20
Up Rove’s sleeve, ‘family values’ cards
REL DAVIS p. 20
Bush vs. God
BOOKS/Alvena Bieri p. 21
‘American Theocracy’
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
To ‘country’ DJs’ chagrin, Chicks rise again
MOLLY IVINS p. 22
Way to go, Bush!; GOP snakes’ nest; Eye to eye in Iraq.
DONALD KAUL p. 23
We need to bleed a bit more in Iraq
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
Higher rates
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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