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COVER/Thomas Schaller p. 1
Just how bad off is the GOP?
EDITORIAL p. 2
Stimulus saboteurs; Obama’s work in progress
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Why America needs a truth commission; Is Geithner really the best there is?; Upside to downsizing; Deregulation killing us; Money deal taints ‘Times’; Horse and sparrow economics
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Resistance to change
DISPATCHES p. 5
Exulting in obstruction; GOP spinners outnumber Dems on TV; GOP tries to penalize ACORN; Truth commission proposed; Reich: GOP hopes for worst; Stimulus bill includes $50B for nukes; Shop at thrift stores, lose your credit ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Raining scams in the Sunbelt
JIM HARKNESS p. 6
Vilsack could learn from Henry Wallace
RAY RING p. 6
Don’t trust windy Texas billionaire
GENE LYONS p. 7
Just fix the economy
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
Team of zombies
DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 7
Hold bankers’ feet to fire
JOHN NICHOLS p. 8
Dirty trickster is new chair of GOP
JOAN WALSH p. 9
The leaderless GOP
ANDREW LEONARD p. 9
Cure for Wall Street: Dose of socialism
ROBERT REICH p. 10
Real fight starts after stimulus is enacted
NORMAN SOLOMON p. 10
Truth comes in various forms
ROBERT BOROSAGE p. 11
Bank on it no more
JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 11
Why ‘Buy American’ belongs in stimulus bill
LEO W. GERARD p. 12
America needs economic patriots
RICHARD RHAMES p. 12
Jobs is a four-letter word
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 13
Don’t jump halfway across a chasm
CARL POPE p. 14
Green economic recovery? Wow!
PROGRESS REPORT p. 14
Shutting out Solis and organized labor
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Congress must act on Obama’s recovery plan
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Health reform optimism, or H&L redux
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Neo-Feudalists
BOB BURNETT p. 15
Grading Obama
GREG PALAST p. 16
Obama is two-faced. Aw-RIGHT!
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 16
Senatorial discourtesy
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Bipartisan chimera
MARGIE BURNS p. 17
End does not justify the means
DON ROLLINS p. 17
Liars’ Hall of Fame
AMERICAS/Roberto Rodriguez p. 18
Fear along the border: R.I.P.
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
Clouds in dawn of Obama-time
MARK ENGLER p. 18
The end of the ‘End of America’
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Tax the speculators
TED RALL p. 19
Obama is scarier than George W. Bush
JEFFREY DECKER p. 20
Celebration instead of conflict at inauguration
JOE CONASON p. 20
Michael Phelps: Dope fiend!
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Looking after Dylan
POPULIST PICKS p. 21
Rush job
STEVEN GDULA p. 21
On the president’s plate
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Foreclosure? Don’t leave
GARRISON KEILLOR p. 22
Bereft
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 22
All hail the Recession Bowl
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Inauguration in perspective
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
Financial haiku
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