Note: Some links from this page may take you away from the
Progressive Populist web site. To return to this page, simply
click the "Back" button or its equivalent on your web browser.
COVER/Edward McClelland p. 1
Sears is dying with the middle class
EDITORIAL p. 2
Open college to all
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
NSA spying is here to stay; Glossing over the job crisis; Pulling the curtain on anti-minimum wage front group; Fast food chains stealing from low-wage workers; Corporations shift their tax burdens to you.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
NRA leads Florida to zombie apocalypse
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Changing the world with your neighborhood
DISPATCHES p. 5
IRS targeted left groups more aggressively than teabaggers; Bundy’s ‘rights’ aren’t that ancestral; Texas A.G. wants his own range war with BLM; Senate still a tossup; Landrieu aims at ‘Jindal gap’; Right-wing talkers get payments from con groups ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Let there be light on health spending
ALLEN BEST p. 6
Lessons of Ludlow, 100 years later
JILL RICHARDSON p. 6
Let them eat rice
GENE LYONS p. 7
We devalued the ‘r’ word
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 7
Climate change is here — too late for pessimism
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
The Windy City’s way
JOHN YOUNG p. 8
GOP’s 17.2% solution
DEAN BAKER p. 9
End tax breaks for super-rich
SAM PIZZIGATI p. 9
Of high-speed fastballs and high-speed trades
JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 9
What’s wrong with General Motors?
DAVID DAYEN p. 10
How to make GOP pay for Medicaid nightmare
JIM NEWELL p. 10
The facts kill Obamacare haters
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Military chief’s plea: Put soldiers to work
BOB BURNETT p. 11
War on democracy: SCOTUS weighs in
MARK ANDERSON p. 11
American workers need to say no trade deals
ELIZABETH HAND p. 12
Saved by Obamacare
DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 12
Minnesota eats skinflint Wisconsin’s lunch
JOAN WALSH p. 13
The GOP’s shameful decline on race
LEO W. GERARD p. 13
GOP budget: Anti-Robin Hood spending plan
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
LBJ’s legacy: Honored and under assault
WENONAH HAUTER p. 14
Don’t rubber stamp exports of fracked gas
ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. p. 14
Restoring Louisiana’s democracy
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Smoking bans: They work
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Silence still doesn’t cure AIDS
ROBERT B. REICH p. 15
Distributional games
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Beware the ides of March
JOHN BUELL
Primal
fears, environmental politics
ERIC BOEHLERT p. 17
Shrinking newsrooms, billionaire donors
BOOK REVIEW/Seth Sandronsky p. 17
Much in common
JOE CONASON p. 18
Former lobbyist guts campaign finance reform
TINA DUPUY p. 18
The grim repo: Medi-Cal Estate Recovery Act
MARK SHIELDS p. 18
If hypocrisy were a felony
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Investors and savers need to recover
TED RALL p. 19
Schools should teach Nowology
NORMAN SOLOMON p. 20
We need media critics who are independent
MOVIE REVIEW/Juan Palomo p. 20
The journey of farm workers
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Check out the ladies’ detective agency
POPULIST PICKS p. 21
Inside Llewyn Davis; Booze Built US; Jobs
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Why is football coach playing union buster?
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
American tradition of violent white supremacy
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
A victim of unemployment: The family pet
JASON STANFORD p. 23
Blood moon ushers in the stupid
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
Three market limericks
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
You are welcome to check out these samples from our recent issue, but please consider subscribing to the genuine article. Only $39.95 for a full year (22 issues), will get you the choice of our regular newsprint edition or, if you prefer, a PDF facsimile of the newsprint edition delivered to your mailbox or email inbox. For details, see here
This page posted April 26, 2014