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COVER/Jim Cullen p. 1
Dems hope to paint the town blue
EDITORIAL p. 2
Rethink trade; Cons go Green; Weakness ...
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Protecting us from fair drug prices; Another Bush front group; Bush’s backfire; Locking down our right to know; IRS goes after poor folks; Where’s Osama?
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Save the planet whichever way you can
DISPATCHES p. 5
Dems unveil ‘New Direction’; Health care proposals, Bush broke two dozen laws ...
STAN COX p. 6
Cooling the mall, heating the planet
THOMAS D. ROWLEY p. 6
‘Mobile’ home owners need help
ROB SHAUL p. 6
Booming anger
GENE LYONS p. 7
No problem here
CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs p. 7
Transportation policy runs off the rails
SAM WARDLE p. 9
Waiting for change in North Carolina
JOE CONASON p. 10
When cowards attack: GOP vs. Murtha
ART CULLEN p. 10
Edwards seeks to restore Dems’ backbone
RANDOLPH T. HOLHUT p. 10
World War III: GOP’s trump card
JOHN BUELL p. 11
Democrats and the new axis of evil
MOKHIBER & WEISSMAN p. 11
Signs of the times
ART CULLEN p. 11
Obama weighs in
LUCKY DOG p. 12
Katrina Diary: ‘They are not coming’
SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL p. 13
Neocons’ next war
MUCKRAKER/Amanda G. Little p. 14
The gas menagerie
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Bush’s NAACP speech only a start
DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 14
Banking on Wal-Mart
BOB BOROSAGE p. 15
Bush’s Miami vices
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
General Motors assumption, revisited
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Imagine affordable drugs
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Bringing on the rapture
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 16
Specter’s schizophrenia
KENT PATERSON p. 17
Mexico’s moment of truth looms
CHARLIE CRAY p. 17
Halliburton’s good deal
AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez p. 18
War, lies, immigration and scapegoating
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
Hezbollah’s top ally in Israel
MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon p. 18
Measuring Bush’s credibility gap
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Taking greed to a new level
TED RALL p. 19
When you care enough to do the very least
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 20
Gibson apology: take 2
ROGER BYBEE p. 20
Frank Zeidler’s remarkable legacy
LABOR RESEARCH ASSOCIATION p. 20
Backtracking on equal employment
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
MTV and the damage done
JOYCE MARCEL p. 21
Are you the maker or the tool?
MOLLY IVINS p. 22
No guts, no grace; Reality-based candidate; Politics as comic relief
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Opposing stem cells is sophistry
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
Condi goes forth to save Lebanon
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