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COVER/Michael Scherer
The hammer falls
EDITORIAL
Hard rain falls on GOP
JIM HIGHTOWER
Finding Bush’s swagger; Rewards and punishments; Economic reality; Better business model; Meet gas-price gougers; Protect kids from Pentagon.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Sustaining our farmers
DISPATCHES
Dems see Senate opportunities; Health premiums up; Justice holds back bankruptcy hammer; Bankruptcy no bar to corporations ...
ART CULLEN
Fallacy of ‘free trade’
BILL McKIBBEN
What part of global warming don’t we get?
DAN OKO
From mountains to stormy seas
GENE LYONS
Autumn leaves
CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Winning starts at home
JOE CONASON
Rove’s nightmare
BOB BURNETT
More ‘rot at the top’
RANDOLPH HOLHUT
Myth of competence in Bush White House
JAMES K. GALBRAITH
Katrina and the public sector
MOKHIBER & WEISSMAN
Flood of fraud
MARC MORIAL
Poverty is plain; now what?
HOLLY SKLAR
Growing gulf between rich and rest
GREG TARPINIAN
Favored corporations win big with Katrina
SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL
Fall of the Rovean Empire?
LEE DRUTMAN
Democracy DeLayed
DAVE ZWEIFEL
Bush mismanagement worsens deficit
MUCKRAKER/Amanda G. Little
Organic no more
JESSE JACKSON
Eased out of the Big Easy
GENE C. GERARD
As in WW2, prez should limit oil profits
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Health insurance, moral hazard
SAM URETSKY
Health ethics
WAYNE O’LEARY
The gang that can’t shoot straight
JAMES O. CASTAGNERA
Things don’t evolve — they revolve
JOHN BUELL
Nightmares, dreams: Auto in US life
TIMOTHY LYNCH
Feds should run failing airlines
AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Diagnosing internalized oppression
ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Dems deeper into the ooze
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Democrats are still sinking
TED RALL
Night and fog revisited
MITCH KAIDY
US abandons Afghanistan
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Kafka does Iraq: Case of Younes Hussein
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Full-court press
JOHN NICHOLS
Bush takes Carter’s conservation cue
JOYCE MARCEL
Creative economy can create community
MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Torture and the arc of injustice
POET/Michael Silverstein
Pity the poor health insurer
MOLLY IVINS
Flim-flam and hoo-hah; Unification of church and state; DeLay goes too far.
DONALD KAUL
Let’s restore New Orleans on the cheap
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