The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
May 1, 2009 -- Volume 15, Number 8


TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Mike Madden p. 1
Would you buy used car co. from this man?

EDITORIAL p. 2
Step back from the brink; We’re not Gitmo

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Watchdog with some bite; Scandalous payments; Reactivating CCC for national recovery; Iraq vets stand up to corp. giant; Springtime hope; Obama’s third Afghan surge
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Return of the nukes

DISPATCHES p. 5
Budget shows progressive values; MSNBC adds lib talker Schultz; ‘Marriage Mecca’ boom ...

FROMA HARROP p. 6
Socialism for any occasion
JANET KAUFFMAN p. 6
How to starve, or feed, a river
JONATHAN PARKINSON p. 6
Enviros: Compromise better than nothing
GENE LYONS p. 7
Poor Wall Street types
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
Truth on drugs ... any questions?
DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 7
Good news on biofuel front
ROBERT WEISSMAN p. 8
What if Obama treated Detroit like Wall St.?
BOB BURNETT p. 8
Nationalizing Citi

DEAN BAKER p. 9
Geither plan taxes Main St. to enrich Wall St.
MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon p. 9
Media themes in Obama age
TRISHA MIECHUR p. 10
What happened when I talked about a union
MARGIE BURNS p. 10
Fitzgerald sought Blago’s dirt on Obama

JOHN BUELL p. 10
Corporate power and employee choice

ROBERT BOROSAGE p. 11
We need a grand inquest on financial crisis
JOE CONASON p. 11
AIG chump change—find hidden billions
POETRY/Glenn Beck p. 11
Time to believe
GREG PALAST p. 12
Exxon Valdez lie: Stick your hand in it
ROBERT REICH p. 12
It’s a Depression
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 13
Summers: Brilliant mind, toxic ideas
JONATHAN THOMPSON p. 13
Tent cities and what they tell us
CARL HIASSEN p. 14
Paying higher taxes not fun but necessary
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Pell Grants fall behind in college-cost battle
CARL POPE p. 14
Right budget for a bright, green future
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Brutal lesson in economics of health care

SAM URETSKY p. 15
Paradox of thrift

DON ROLLINS p. 15
Airport sermon

WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Obama’s Kipling moment
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 16
More than overhaul needed on health care
JOHN NICHOLS p. 16
Campaign aims to ‘Bring Guard home’
ANDREW LEONARD p. 17
Remember the Great Oil Shock of 2008?
JOAN WALSH p. 17
Right-wing Catholics vs. Obama
AMERICAS/Roberto Rodriguez p. 18
Face of the new American bigot, Part II
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
Obama’s fall guy
ANDREW LEONARD p. 18
Crusade against oligarchs of Wall Street
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Paying for the deficit
TED RALL p. 19
Why we hate banks
DONALD GUTIERREZ p. 20
Patriotism and country vs. state

EDWARD McCLELLAND p. 20
It really was my father’s Oldsmobile
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
The next big thing

POPULIST PICKS p. 21
Political hits in my house

EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
‘Like we were dogs’: Story of Ryan Moats
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Lessons of the Exxon Valdez
GARRISON KEILLOR p. 22
The real American dream
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Sometimes Congress isn’t constructive
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
Father Dollar

Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen


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