The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
September 15, 2005 -- Volume 11, Number 16
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Joan Walsh
Mother of all battles

EDITORIAL
Cowardly lyin’; Progressive agenda

JIM HIGHTOWER
Cindy Sheehan takes a stand; Truth about bumpersticker; Bush’s economic draft; March on Washington!; Make Democrats be Democrats; Go kiss a king.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Bean dicks afield

DISPATCHES
Senate up for grabs; Bush popularity lower than Nixon’s; Fuel economy finishes last ...
JULIA OLMSTEAD
Our reckless chemical dependence
DAN HAWKINS
States shred safety net
RHONDA CLARIDGE
Nuclear is neither clean nor solution
CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
UFW and Farm Aid landmarks

GENE LYONS
Hey cowboy: get a horse
FARHAD MANJOO
After Cindy Sheehan
ROBERT BRYCE
The hollow man
SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL
The vacationer
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Howell Raines redux at the ‘Times’
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Bringing the war home

ADAM GRAHAM-SILVERMAN
Big Pharma’s free ride
JASON LEOPOLD
Cheney + Pakistan = Iran

JOHN NICHOLS
Progressives launch PLAN for statehouses
MUCKRAKER/Amanda G. Little
Broken Reid lets flawed energy bill pass
JESSE JACKSON
Johnson built empire that inspired
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Grade inflation at the CDC

SAM URETSKY
Drug war shreds privacy

DAVE ZWEIFEL
National healthcare would save jobs
WAYNE O’LEARY
At sea with Mr. Roberts

STEVEN HILL & ROB RICHIE
Life term for Roberts, life sentence for us?
MATTHEW ZIMMERMAN
Debugging the e-vote
DANIELLE BRIAN
Excessive secrecy won’t make us safe
N. GUNASEKARAN
Battling for UN Security Council

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Truth about truth
ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Can Cindy Sheehan end the war?
LEW MALTBY
What next for labor?
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Speculators need some humanity
TED RALL
Sacrifice? Count me out
NATHAN NEWMAN
Border is the new color line

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Blaming the antiwar messengers
BOOK/Alvena Bieri
American revelation
ROB PATTERSON
Air America Radio flies high
JOYCE MARCEL
Assembly line of death
MOLLY IVINS
Speak out, prepare to be sued; Book exposes ‘new economy’
DONALD KAUL
Struggling to hide the reasons for war
POET/Michael Silverstein
Longer term oil fears


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