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COVER/Kirsten Weir p. 1
Global boiling
EDITORIAL p. 2
The new civil war; First among rivals
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Good wages are good for America; Thain’s blue Christmas; Pirate ethics; Lobbyists change their stripes; Bush OKs environmental grotestqueries; Diminishing stench in Congress
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR p. 4
Roll with us
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Making everything valuable
DISPATCHES p. 5
Nixon’s ‘treason’; Bush linked to detainee homicides; Workers win in sitdown strike ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Booze or drugs, prohibition senseless
ED QUILLEN p. 6
Welcome to hard times
WENDY WILLIAMS p. 6
Water: Buying message on a bottle
GENE LYONS p. 7
No tears, no regrets
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
Told you so
DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 7
Car dealers once toast of the town
ANDREW LEONARD p. 8
Obama’s pick to solve energy crisis
MIKE MADDEN p. 9
Obama mania grips the capital
JOAN WALSH p. 9
Obama handling Blago mess just fine
STEVE EARLY p. 10
Labor and Obama: honeymoon over?
WALTER BRASCH p. 10
Media fuel fires of anti-unionism
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 11
Rewarding those who got it right
ALAN KESSELHEIM p. 11
Here comes change
DANIEL M. SMITH p. 11
Senate’s quiet struggle with the Pentagon
BOB BOROSAGE p. 12
Hoover time
ROGER BYBEE p. 12
Can’t survive exporting cardboard
DEAN BAKER p. 12
If GM were Canadian it wouldn’t need help
ROBERT WEISSMAN p. 13
Nasty class, anti-union bias
JOHN BUELL p. 13
If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich?
KENT PATERSON p. 14
Latinos flex political power
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Bail out Main Street workers
JOHN NICHOLS p. 13
Obama’s stimulus needs to go further
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Shifts of right and wrong
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Need bailouts at the bottom
DAVID WALLINGA p. 15
Ramping down the toxins we eat
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 16
If it sounds too good to be true ...
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Goodbye to all that
JOE CONASON p. 17
Hunting of the president resumes
MARGIE BURNS p. 17
McClellan: Bush OK’d leaking classified info
AMERICAS/Roberto Rodriguez p. 18
Bring down the walls!
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
Honeymoans from the left
MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon p. 18
Rhetoric goes just so far
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Crisis and opportunity
TED RALL p. 19
Smells like Bob Dylan
JULIE HOLLAR & PETER HART p. 19
Corporate media love corporate appointees
ANDREW LEONARD p. 20
Krugman’s depression economics
POPULIST PICKS p. 20
Chat worth a listen
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
What’s left in music ’08
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Burress and the Bloomberg
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Chevron in the White House
GARRISON KEILLOR p. 22
Christmas in New York: merry & muscular
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Can retreads get us out of this mess?
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
Too small not to fail
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