The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
June 15, 2005 -- Volume 11, Number 11
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Farhad Manjoo
Identity crisis

EDITORIAL
Keep the kick

JIM HIGHTOWER
Madness of globalization; Scottie ballistic on ‘Newsweek’; Humble servant, Tom DeLay; United stiffs retirees, taxpayers; Iron grip on Iraq democracy; Chevy’s revolting revolution
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Coalitions make a difference

DISPATCHES
Health care crisis coming?; GOP eyes permanent campaign; R’s look to paid court majorities; NARAL snubs R.I. Dems; Texas dereg no help for ratepayers; Fox News free fall; Mayors embrace Kyoto rules ...

TIM McFEELY
Living wage politics
GEORGE NAYLOR
Ag subsidy cap not an answer
THOMAS D. ROWLEY
Rural faithful and enviros need to merge
CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
The enemy within

GENE LYONS
Convenient furor
TED RALL
Stupid inhuman tricks
JILL LANCELOT
A $15 billion Big Business bonanza
JOHN NICHOLS
Hersh sees democracy in peril in US
JOHN BUELL
Passing the buck

MARY WILDFIRE
A home undermined

JASON LEOPOLD
Quiet oil spills in Alaska
NATHAN NEWMAN
Union in every workplace

LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber
Militant nurses cut Arnold’s popularity
MARK WEISBROT
Media fails again on Social Security
HAL CROWTHER
Shame is for sissies

REBECCA CLARREN
Rush to security put Americans at risk
MUCKRAKER/Amanda G. Little
It was just my ecomagination
JESSE JACKSON
From ignorance comes growth
HOLLY SKLAR
CEO pay still on steroids
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Hollywood does drugs
DAVE ZWEIFEL
Airline pension woes waiting in wings
STEVEN HILL
Why Dems will keep losing
WAYNE O’LEARY
Politics of theology

MOKHIBER & WEISSMAN
All fall down
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Using our voices
AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Hate contagion
ALEXANDER COCKBURN
The decline of the Left
MARTY JEZER
Handicapped spaces
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Sticking with the unions
CHRISTOPHER COOK
Bush in the shadow of the old USSR

ERIC BOEHLERT
Making PBS as ‘fair and balanced’ as Fox
MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
News media and madness of militarism
ROB PATTERSON
Selling out to the big boys

GREG PALAST
‘Newsweek’ cowardice in journalism
MOLLY IVINS
They lied to us; Don’t blame ‘Newsweek’; Don’t give up on our schools
DONALD KAUL
Republicans seem smarter than the rest
POET/Michael Silverstein
The debt song of the Potomac


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