The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
October 1, 2004 -- Volume 10, Number 17
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Mark Engler
Republicans among us

EDITORIAL
Republican revisionism

JIM HIGHTOWER
American egalitarianism; Tricky George; Profiteering on GIs; Homeland Security insurance scam; Government's assault on dissent; Genuine Texas roadhouse

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Bring Dems out of the closets

DISPATCHES
Medicare costs jump with Bush; Modest job growth still falls short; Revisionist economics; Memories; GOP mocks wounded vets ...

DENNIS KEENEY
Our fragile food supply

LESLIE GLUSTROM
Western utilities beware: Coal risky business

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Citiu$, Altiu$, Fortiu$

TED RALL
9/11 victims remain unavenged

LANCE OLSEN
Cheney skipped the weather report

JIM CULLEN
Tight races for Senate take shape

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
The 'reformer with results' is back

JOHN BUELL
Economic insecurity

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Economic doldrums

MARK WEISBROT
Labor Day 2004: Not much to celebrate

JAMES CASTAGNERA
If Clarence Darrow were alive today ...

GENE LYONS
Consequences of catastrophic success

RANDOLPH HOLHUT
Gaffes and the future of labor

AMERICAN PROGRESS
President Bush: Flip-flopper-in-chief

REV. ALLEN BRILL
Guess who's coming to dinner?

MUCKRAKER/Amanda Griscom
If at first you don't succeed, go negative

JESSE JACKSON
Iraq's feast is Darfur's famine

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Stupidity wins: Polio spreads

PHIL TAJITSU NASH
Cradle to grave

DAVE ZWEIFEL
Would Canada go US? Not a chance

JOYCE MARCEL
If you're in labor, press 1

MARTY JEZER
Commander in chief

MARC UMILE
Bush Brothers Inc.

WAYNE O'LEARY
Keeping 'em scared

ROB RICHIE & STEVEN HILL
Losers take all this November?

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
A worker's handprints

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
The stench of doom

PUBLIC PRINTS/Charles Cullen
We're doomed, but have a nice day

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Don't wait for killer flu

FUTURE HOPE/Ted Glick
Four more months!

MARY MOUNTCASTLE
North Carolina cures predatory lending

SETH SANDRONSKY
March of a million American workers

GREG PALAST
Payoff in Bush Air Guard fix

CHRIS PEPUS
Working-class white men and the election

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Rove's brain and media manipulation

RECOVERY/Larry Kearney
Power grab shoves aside decency

JOHN NICHOLS
Springsteen can make election impact

MOLLY IVINS
Unmitigated gall; Did you sign up for this? Conservatives, repent!

DONALD KAUL
Bush family has history of smearing


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