The Progressive POPULIST

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


TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Steve Kornacki p. 1
Tea party psy ops drive GOP

EDITORIAL p. 2
Beat a rigged game

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Wall Street devil gets religion ... and an apt epitaph; GOP is galloping away from conservatives; America’s incredibly meek media; Protecting political insiders from First Amendment; Counter ALEC with ALICE
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Corporate hogs throw their weight around
DISPATCHES p. 5
Slow recovery calls for ‘Prosperity Economics’; Vast potential for green energy in West; Mendacious Mitt says ‘trust me’ on taxes; Sadler up in try to turn Texas purple; Alternate parties lining up ...

FROMA HARROP p. 6
Drought nation heads for dry well
ALLEN BEST p. 6
Global climate change: We need to talk
ARI LEVAUX p. 6
Megadrought, the new normal
GENE LYONS p. 7
Climate change is real — just ask my cows
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
Gold medalists in fake outrage
JOE CONASON p. 7
Fear and loathing in Romney campaign
JOHN NICHOLS p. 8
Polish union wants no part of Mitt’s politics
JAMES MOORE p. 8
What happened in Texas
ROBERT B. REICH p. 9
Terrible economy and anti-election
HOLLY SKLAR p. 9
Raise minimum wage to raise America
BILL JOHNSTON p. 9
Labor day 2012: Unions still in trouble

MARK ENGLER p. 10
Student debt crisis: It’s time for a jubilee

SAM PIZZIGATI p. 10
Marching toward greater inequality
JESSYE WEINSTEIN p. 10
Your labor rights or your life
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 11
Why is running for president diminishing?
ROGER BYBEE p. 11
Romney challenged to debate offshoring
GENE NICHOL p. 11
Invisible North Carolina
MICHAEL LIND p. 12
Education reform’s central myths
DEAN BAKER p. 13
CEOs plan to steal your Social Security
BOB BURNETT p. 13
Renewing democracy: Shifting paradigm
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Police chiefs’ guidance on weapons
WENONAH HAUTER p. 14
We can’t put a price on nature

WENDELL POTTER p. 14
Health costs bankrupt shooting victim
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Arc of cyberspace: Consumers ascendent

SAM URETSKY p. 15
If you can’t vote your hopes, vote your fears

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 15
Foreclosing a solution

PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel p. 16
Cops know it’s time to close loophole
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Austerely yours, Mitt and Angela

JOHN BUELL p. 16
We must respond to climate change
MARK WEISBROT p. 17
ECB controls fate of world economy
MARK ANDERSON p. 17
Rev. Pinkney vs. ‘austerity brigade’
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
Barclays and the limits of financial reform
TINA DUPUY p. 18
‘Always opposite of Obama’ is tricky
WILL DURST p. 18
The presumptive tax dodger
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Debating the prison-industrial complex
TED RALL p. 19
Gun control talk is cheap. Mental health is not
MICHAEL MOORE p. 20
It’s the guns, but we all know it’s not really
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 20
California offers mortgage relief
POPULIST PICKS p. 21
Two new HBO series and Smither’s new CD

ROB PATTERSON p. 21
War is good for documentaries
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Oscar Pistorius and the ‘Dignity of Risk’
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
US gun laws guilty by reason of insanity
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Mayer hasn’t danced feminist fandango
DONALD KAUL p. 23
My broken heart
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
The health cost merry-go-round

Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen


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