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COVER/Mark Benjamin p. 1
What’s on John McCain’s mind?
EDITORIAL p. 2
Hunting Republicans; Vote Progressive
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
McCain’s new ethics rules; Blackwater’s reward; Aging agitators; Price of imported shrimp; Who benefits from cloning; Goofy in Baghdad
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Industry has plans for you
DISPATCHES p. 5
Presidential battlegrounds shape up; Dems coming home in California; McCain flunks vets support; Steelworkers, Mine Workers endorse Obama; Barr’s burr under McCain’s saddle ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Learning from the hangover
BEN BURKETT p. 6
Farm Bill 2008 wasted chance for change
JOHN NICHOLS p. 6
Don’t blame farmers for food crisis
GENE LYONS p. 7
Democrats who reject Barack Obama
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
Toward a new Washington consensus
DAVID TALBOT p. 8
Obama/Kennedy vs. McCain/Goldwater
WALTER SHAPIRO p. 9
Hillary: She’s in it to spin it
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 9
Clinton’s loss: Historic win
JOE CONASON p. 10
Lieberman: Ideological turncoat
GREG PALAST p. 10
Obama’s secret war profiteering tax
BILL SCHER p. 11
Channel your road rage
MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon p. 11
Blue collars, broad brushes
JOHN BUELL p. 11
Amber waves of ethanol
MORTON MINTZ p. 12
Pharmaceutical devils in the detail men
STEVEN KULL & DOUG MILLER p. 14
Let people lead on climate change
RICHARD RHAMES p. 14
Chain saws and snorkels: Losing Carbon 350
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Obama’s success reflects our growth
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
A mogul’s prayer
DON ROLLINS p. 15
Question of the day: Postmodern prayer
DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 15
Life gets shorter
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 16
Cost of war
DEAN BAKER p. 16
Low-income renters to pay for housing bailout
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Subprime meltdown: The players
RANDOLPH HOLHUT p. 17
Thanks to energy boom, Russia on the rise
JOYCE MARCEL p. 17
Taking a trip back in the USSR
AMERICAS/Roberto Rodriguez p. 18
Our America and the other America
ROB RICHIE p. 18
Multiple choices for president: Time for IRV
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
Obama’s luck
ROBERT WEISSMAN p. 19
Big business is not solution to global poverty
TED RALL p. 19
How the New York Times won ’04 for Bush
TED GLICK p. 20
Mazzochi, Speth and capitalism’s future
NJAMBI GOOD p. 20
‘Harold and Kumar’ not all make-believe
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Bourne again
POPULIST PICKS p. 21
Three girls make music
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Blogged down: Seduction of Buzz Bissinger
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
US targeted hotel housing journalists
GARRISON KEILLOR p. 22
Mutterings over soldiers’ graves
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Pretenders’ delight
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
Numbers fudging poem
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