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December 1, 2009 -- Volume 15, Number 21


TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Robert Borosage p. 1
Obama’s first year: No crystal staircase

EDITORIAL p. 2
Time for ‘The Chicago Way’

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Healthcare hypocrites; Bankers gone bonkers; Economic indicators for real people; Rich worry about you; Airline innovations
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Buy local

DISPATCHES p. 5
Progs bailed on single-payer; House reforms would start soon; Is a flawed health bill better than no bill?; Don’t make like Texas; Dem gains in GOP split; Lessons from off-off-year election; Cons still hunting ‘RINOs’ ...

FROMA HARROP p. 6
Teabaggers were carpetbaggers
JIM GOODMAN p. 6
Corporate agribusiness divides farmers
JEFF WELSCH p. 6
Phosphate mining continues toxic tradition
GENE LYONS p. 7
Keyboard kommandos want Obama tough
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
We are what we trade, how we trade it
DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 7
Credit card firms squeeze consumers
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 8
Audacity of winning vs. timidity of governing
ANDREW LEONARD p. 9
Peak oil? Obama’s on the job
MIKE LAPHAM p. 9
Three steps to save Wall Street
DEAN BAKER p. 10
Stimulus and jobs: We can do better
BOB BURNETT p. 10
Reform we can believe in
DON ROLLINS p. 10
Tailgatin’ for Jesus

KENT PATERSON p. 11
N.M. GOP victory hard lesson for Dems

GREG PALAST p. 11
Taliban = 9/11? Afghanistan by hypnosis
JOE CONASON p. 12
Ask Lieberman’s wife why no health reform
ROBERT REICH p. 12
Blue Dog Dems in danger
MICHAEL LIND p. 13
Why Dilbert is doomed
CARL POPE p. 13
Clean energy jobs bill will benefit all of us
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 14
Suddenly we care about others’ sick leave
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
No need to hesitate on health care bill
SAM URETSKY p. 14
Wise Latina welcomed on the Court

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Making do sans insurance

NORMAN SOLOMON p. 15
Health care apartheid
ROBERT WEISSMAN p. 15
The Medicare-for-All moment

WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Blowback in health care

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 16
Blow back in the Senate

JOHN BUELL p. 16
Reflections on the evils of capitalism

MARK WEISBROT p. 17
Ecuador, Bolivia stand up for rights and win
N. GUNASEKARAN p. 17
‘Revolutionary’ turn in Japanese politics

AMERICAS/Roberto Rodriguez p. 18
My ‘susto profundo’
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
Blow-up
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Rhetoric and reality
TED RALL p. 19
Obama’s real death panels
HARRY KELBER p. 19
Steelworkers work with world’s largest co-op
ART CULLEN p. 20
Get health insurance off our backs!

MIKE MADDEN p. 20
Bachmann’s army marches on Washington
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Who’s eating whom?

POPULIST PICKS p. 21
Law-and-Order liberal

EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
The coming labor war in the NFL
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Tortured logic continues
GARRISON KEILLOR p. 22
Time to move on from Afghanistan
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Worry of trivia overload, not Fox News
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
The ballad of Hamid Karzai


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