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COVER/Charlie Cray p. 1
Legacy of an Exxon CEO
EDITORIAL p. 2
Real energy reform; Fencing e-frontier
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Explosive new politics; Words to remember; Constricting high school; Telling picture; Who to be detained?; New horror from IRS
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Keep it simple, señor
DISPATCHES p. 5
Feingold stumps for prog populists; White House phone jamming link probed; Enviros like Chafee; Gasoline alley; Battling insurance industry; Dems try to keep it simple ...
JIM VAN DER POL p. 6
Community building should be con ideal
JIM FRENCH p. 6
Overhaul US farm policy
MARGARET MELLON p. 6
Let them eat grass
GENE LYONS p. 7
Not every crisis equals World War II
CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs p. 7
Workers need fair wages, not open borders
MOKHIBER & WEISSMAN p. 8
Wall Street vs. America
JOHN BUELL p. 9
Immigrants are coming!
MAX SAWICKY p. 9
What recovery?
SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL p. 10
‘I’m the decider’: Bush’s disdain for history
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 10
Fresh faces of ’06: Bolten, Portman, Rummy?
JOHN NICHOLS p. 10
Congress should probe Bush
MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon p. 11
Playacting diplomacy on road to war
JOHN SEAGER p. 11
People omitted from climate change equation
ART CULLEN p. 11
Free trade, except for labor
TOM ENGELHARDT p. 12
In the rubble: History ambushes Bush
JOE CONASON p. 13
Bush’s bluster
MUCKRAKER/Amanda G. Little p. 14
Air strike: EPA gives pols more say
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Duke accusations reopen old wounds
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Costing out health in developing world
DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 15
Band-Aid for health care
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Persistent liars
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
True price of globalization
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 16
Immigration reform
ADIL E. SHAMOO p. 17
Permanent US bases in Iraq are immoral
STEVEN HILL p. 17
Palestinian elections undemocratic
MARK WEISBROT p. 17
China is bigger than you think
AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez p. 18
The border on our backs
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
Courtroom bumps for the war on terror
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Rev. Coffin: Disturber of the peace
TED RALL p. 19
Don’t impeach Bush; commit him
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 19
Skilling on the stand
BYBEE & WINTER p. 20
Heretical interview with Kevin Phillips
ROB PATTERSON p. 20
‘Truthiness’ sets Colbert free
HECTOR GONZALEZ p. 21
Civil rights seen through Salvadoran’s eyes
JOHN WALKER p. 21
Lessons of self-appointed immigration agent
MIKE LAPHAM p. 21
Paying our fair share
MOLLY IVINS p. 22
Compare and contrast; ‘Huh?’-inducing news from Bushites; Subsidizing fish to swim
DONALD KAUL p. 23
DeLay made Congress much worse
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