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COVER/Walter Shapiro p. 1
Barack Obama’s breakthrough
EDITORIAL p. 2
Making change
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Paying price for NAFTA; Foreclosing on renters; Facts on health care; Giving away Appalachia; Gaping economic divide; My ‘Order of Merit’.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Life lists
DISPATCHES p. 5
Reporters love McCain, hate Edwards; High school politics; ‘Fair Tax’ doesn’t add up; Senate GOP most obstructionist ever; McGovern urges impeachment; UK living standard surpasses US; Every American deserves CheneyCare; 9/11 probe ‘obstructed’ ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Will Arizona’s immigration law work?
KRISTIN VAN TASSEL p. 6
Seeing in the dark
MARY FLITNER p. 6
Ranching still has a place on public lands
GENE LYONS p. 7
Bipartisanship is bunk
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
We’ve won already
ART CULLEN p. 8
The long road from a small town
JOE CONASON p. 9
Barack delivers, Hillary disappoints
ANDREW LEONARD p. 9
Economic consequences of Huckabee
ROBERT WEISSMAN p. 10
Victories in 2007
RANDOLPH HOLHUT p. 10
Vermont swims against free-market tide
MARK WEISBROT p. 11
A lesson from the last, and next, recession
MARGIE BURNS p. 11
What else was on those CIA videotapes
HAL CROWTHER p. 12
Knights of the living dead
JOHN NICHOLS p. 13
Wexler profile rises on impeachment talk
CARL POPE p. 14
2007 was green; make 2008 greener
FRANK O’DONNELL p. 14
Holy Roller at EPA
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
King message leads to justice
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Tidbits from the ‘Just say no’ files
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN p. 15
From the school yard to the prison yard
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Profits in misinformation
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Progressive choice
DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 16
Alas, days of great spit shines are over
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 16
Feet to the fire
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 17
Conventional wisdom wreaks havoc on US
JOHN BUELL p. 17
Compounding NAFTA’s woes
AMERICAS/Roberto Rodriguez p. 18
Silence of the 999 monkeys
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
Disaster for Hillary, Mitt
DON ROLLINS p. 18
Leave Bible-thumping to the Republicans
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Freezing out the poor
TED RALL p. 19
Iron fist in a velvet glove
ISAAC PEARLMAN p. 20
Globalization, development and poverty
POPULIST PICKS/Rob Patterson p. 21
Audio-visuals for the new year
DAVE ZIRIN p. 21
Taking baack sports in ’08
MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon p. 21
Forecast for 2008: Bad media weather
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Surviving a CIA ‘black site’
GARRISON KEILLOR p. 22
Just follow the map
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Not called silly season for nothing
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
America’s workers more productive
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