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COVER/Stephen Markley p. 1
Obama rides the youth vote
EDITORIAL p. 2
Bring them home; The real conservative
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Vote American with your cash; Black-robed corporatists; Big-spending George; Bush’s hollow support for vets; Cashiering Charlie Prince; SweatFree communities.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Uphill climb in a flat world
DISPATCHES p. 5
GOP plans another Social Security attack; Dems dream of big gains; Need Iraq funding? Call Mitch; Pentagon duns wounded for bonuses; Debates duck New Orleans; Tumors and GOP; Stupidity theory confirmed; Aussies replace Buttinsky ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
When ‘personal virtue’ meets the market
PETE LETHEBY p. 6
Western water is petering out
DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 6
Forbidden to care for the home front
GENE LYONS p. 7
‘Blogger’ no longer a dirty word
WILLIAM A. COLLINS p. 7
Immigration is here — get used to it
ART CULLEN p. 8
Surprises often emerge from corn stubble
RANDOLPH HOLHUT p. 9
US squandered money, time in energy fight
JOHN NICHOLS p. 9
Impeachment timing makes difference
BILL SCHER p. 9
Shall we help Big Oil get bigger?
MAX BRANTLEY p. 10
The dark side of Mike Huckabee
RUSSELL MOKHIBER p. 11
Democracy, corpocracy, kleptocracy
MARK BENJAMIN p. 12
Corporate profiteers rule Iraq vets’ care
MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon p. 12
Good news — your wages are flat
JOE CONASON p. 13
Did Bush ask McClellan to lie?
DAVID SIROTA p. 13
Was Ross Perot right?
CHRISTOPHER HELLMAN p. 14
What America really spends on security
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Pundits ignore housing crisis
JOHN BUELL p. 14
Scapegoating public education
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Beyond ‘never’
RICK MOLTZON p. 15
Health insurance can kill you
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN p. 15
Keeping kids healthy shouldn’t be hard
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
The New Bourbons
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 16
Preponderance of evidence
MARTHA BURK p. 16
Women gypped in workplace again
GREG PALAST p. 17
Hillary’s Musharraf
ALIA MALEK p. 17
When did we become like Syria?
AMERICAS/Roberto Rodriguez p. 18
Verge of democracy collapse disorder
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
US hopes for coup to topple Hugo Chavez
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Is corporate greenmania for real?
TED RALL p. 19
Sign the pledge!
SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL p. 20
Goodbye, Mr. Bush
BOOKS p. 21
Holiday reading
BOOKS/Alvena Bieri p. 21
Interesting visits in history
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 21
‘PU-239’: Friendship, fatherhood, loose nukes
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Studs Terkel: Curiosity didn’t kill this cat
GARRISON KEILLOR p. 22
Why I didn’t invest in subprime mortgages
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Pakistan’s lawyers are superior to ours
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
The Shaven
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