The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
January 1-15, 2012 -- Volume 18, Number 1


TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Steve Kornacki p. 1
President Obama: Evolution of a populist

EDITORIAL p. 2
Time to walk the walk; Reasonable GOPers

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
The deep shallowness of Professor Gingrich; People must take on corporate power; Bug spreads happiness; How 1% can camp with 99%
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Rural people fight for rights in 2011

DISPATCHES p. 5
‘ObamaCare’ not so bad; ObamaCare bomb ticking; Romney lies about Obama ‘regulatory burden’; GOP targets Medicare — no lie!; Gingrich tax cuts balloon debt; Pointless payroll tax bill; Bill with better points has no chance ...
JIM GOODMAN p. 6
Occupy Wall Street embodies democracy

FROMA HARROP p. 6
Paper is more forever
JONATHAN THOMPSON p. 6
Southwest booms bite the dust
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
Celebrating the end of kids’ Wall St. dreams
JOHN NICHOLS p. 7
Gov. Walker used to like recalls
GENE LYONS p. 7
Gingrich candidacy not surprising
ELLEN BROWN p. 8
Pulling back the curtain on Wall Street
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 9
It’s accountability time for Wall Street
DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 9
Few corporations pay full 35% tax rate
HOLLY SKLAR p. 9
Corporations play repatriation con games
J. CAVANAGH & D. KORTEN p. 10
America needs a Main Street jobs agenda
ROBERT REICH p. 10
The rebirth of Social Darwinism
DAVID ELLIOT p. 10
Hardly working: Jobless face discrimination
ANDREW LEONARD p. 11
Blue chip corporations pay meager taxes
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 11
Gingrich can beat himself in 2012
DEAN BAKER p. 11
Online piracy act: class war in cyberspace
HAL CROWTHER p. 12
Otherwise Occupied: What price revolution?

RONNIE CUMMINS p. 13
Put fat cats on a diet: Food corrupted by agribiz
DANNY SCHECHTER p. 14
Occupy Wall Street interests media for now
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Broken health system is killing us
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Congress gets in poor families’ business

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
New tech alerts newborn heart disease

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 15
Court may force open health care debate

JOHN BUELL p. 16
What happens in Europe doesn’t stay there

WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Worshipping Steve Jobs

BOB BURNETT p. 17
Occupy Wall Street sees enthusiasm gap
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 17
California tax initiative targets 1%

DON ROLLINS p. 17
Occupy and the boomerang effect

TINA DUPUY p. 18
GOP occupied with amending Constitution
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
Obama plays T.R. card a little late
WILL DURST p. 18
Top 10 comedic news stories of 2011
TED RALL p. 19
Dems move to co-opt Occupy Wall St.
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Time to save the Post Office
PETER FUNT p. 20
Presidential campaigns are an open book
ROBERT BOROSAGE p. 20
Gingrich’s strategy: run vs. Bush/Obama
POPULIST PICKS p. 21
Bad Lip Reading makes light of political circus

ROB PATTERSON p. 21
‘Agitpop’ missing from music scene

EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
‘SI’ honors Duke’s Coach K, sick system
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
The ever-devolving Mitt Romney
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Listen to the people, not the polluters
DONALD KAUL p. 23
The rich are profiting like it’s 1929
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
2011 political season in haiku

Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen


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