The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
March 1, 2014 -- Volume 20, Number 4


TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/CJ Werleman p. 1
GOP civil war is only going to get uglier

EDITORIAL p. 2
Food fight fizzles; Pete Seeger R.I.P.

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Congress critters can be lovable for a price; McDonald’s uses MLK Day to whitewash its labor record; Rick Perry struts his stuff in Davos; US Postal Service selling out workers; For mercy’s sake, Mr. Perkins, go away
DEAN BAKER p. 4
The attack of the robots: Economists’ fantasies
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Monsanto plows ahead with GMOs

DISPATCHES p. 5
GOP blocks Medicaid for 6M; Thousands will die from Medicaid opt-out; Uninsured rate drops; Dems call Boehner’s bluff on immigration; Battle for Senate shapes up ...

FROMA HARROP p. 6
Politics vs. immigration reform
SARAH GILMAN p. 6
Natural gas industry needs to come clean
JILL RICHARDSON p. 6
This is what climate change looks like
GENE LYONS p. 7
Big Brother is not retreating to 18th century
CHARLES CULLEN p. 7
Letters from the eye of the Snowpocalypse
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
Don’t pity the billionaire
RICHARD ESKOW p. 8
The new populist moment
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 9
Changing what is possible
JIM VAN DER POL p. 9
Entitled vs. totalitarians

EMILY SCHWARTZ GRECO p. 10
The Unaffordable WeDon’tCare Act
MITCHELL ZIMMERMAN p. 10
It’s health care, not software
WENDELL POTTER p. 10
Massachusetts tackles health care reform
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
The death penalty has become a game of chess
BOB BURNETT p. 11
Obama comes out fighting

JOAN WALSH p. 11
GOP is melting down: The real SOTU story
DAVID DAYEN p. 12
The quiet war on Social Security
ELIZABETH WARREN p. 12
Coming to a post office: Loans you can trust?
JAMES MOORE p. 13
The river has never divided us
MICHAEL BRUNE p. 13
Keystone XL: Set to reject
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Civil Rights made the Super Bowl possible
WENONAH HAUTER p. 14
Email shows USDA cowering to industry

GENE NICHOL p. 14
Poverty and education
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
‘Lean on me’ — heavily

SAM URETSKY p. 15
Admit trickle-down failure

ROBERT B. REICH p. 15
No outcry over inequality
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Up the down staircase

JOHN BUELL p. 16
‘Free trade’ as the bankers’ Trojan horse

JOHN YOUNG p. 16
GOP has a terrible niche it must scratch
N. GUNASEKARAN p. 17
Snowden’s effect: Inspiring whistleblowers

MARK WEISBROT p. 17
China has good reason to help Latin America
JOE CONASON p. 18
Universal pre-K? Ask Grover Norquist
TINA DUPUY p. 18
The GOP psyche: An explainer
DON ROLLINS p. 18
Searching for disappearing protest song

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Fukushima secrecy syndrome
TED RALL p. 19
End the death penalty
ROBERT SCHEER p. 19
The Super Bowl of war
DANNY SCHECHTER p. 20
Pete Seeger as media maker and critic

BOOK REVIEW/Seth Sandronsky p. 20
Labor struggles in and out of unions

ROB PATTERSON p. 21
The content of one’s entertainment

POPULIST PICKS p. 21
‘Blue Bloods’; ‘October Sky’; ‘When It Was a Game’

EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
The Super Bowl’s military fables
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
From Putin and the plutocrats to Pussy Riot
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Hold on, Hillary
JASON STANFORD p. 23
Holding Arne Duncan to a higher standard
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
Koch Brothers Valentine to the tea party

Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen


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