The Progressive POPULIST

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December 15, 2009 -- Volume 15, Number 22


TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Michael Lind p. 1
Can Democrats reclaim their populist roots?

EDITORIAL p. 2
Come home Dems; Make the war pay too

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Worthiness of banker charity; Two good ideas for banking reform; New signs of sanity at EPA; Embracing the world with our arms; Hiding worker injuries from OSHA
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Repair the whole body

DISPATCHES p. 5
Backing into election; Analysts: Health bill cuts premiums; Misplaced priorities; Dems push ‘entitlement reform’; Fine ones to talk; Hightower Puffin up; Canadians wary of Amy ...

CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 6
Reproductive health is not a social issue
TIM LYDON p. 6
Old friends are melting away
STAN COX p. 6
Unnatural gas
GENE LYONS p. 7
Beastly treatment for beauties
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
Colbert conservatism
DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 7
Restore law, split up banks
JIM VAN DER POL p. 8
Give me that old-time populism

HOLLY SKLAR p. 9
Change Wall Street can believe in
DEAN BAKER p. 9
Budget deficit crisis blame is bipartisan
WILLIAM McCARTNEY p. 9
Not fixing health care would be moral failure
EVAGGELOS VALLIANATOS p. 10
Obama’s environmental emergency

JOHN BUELL p. 10
Bad times could get worse for Obama

JOEL. D. JOSEPH p. 11
How we can create jobs in USA

JOHN NICHOLS p. 11
Reid’s deeds trump Palin’s tweets
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 12
Will unemployment be Obama’s Katrina?
DON ROLLINS p. 12
Health care for the unlucky

ROBERT BOROSAGE p. 13
Jobs, jobs, jobs — finally
FROMA HARROP p. 14
Insane debate over wasted med spending
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Uncle Sam can’t be a tightwad now
BOB BURNETT p. 14
Why can’t Democrats grow a spine?
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
The vegetable in the health reform pot

SAM URETSKY p. 15
Health care games

ROBERT REICH p. 15
Whatever did happen to the public option?
D.H. KERBY p. 16
Torture whistleblowers commended

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 16
Personality crisis

ART CULLEN p. 16
Cheney will visit Iowa

ROBERT WEISSMAN p. 17
Maniacal deregulation
MARGIE BURNS p. 17
Bin Laden was Bush talking point, not target

AMERICAS/Roberto Rodriguez p. 18
Lying and ‘clear conscience’ of war policies
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
It’s show trial time!
BOOKS/Jim Cullen p. 18
Molly Ivins reconstructed

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Challenging China
TED RALL p. 19
America on trial
ELLEN BROWN p. 20
We need a tax on financial speculators
F. JONES, P. SOBOCINSKI, R. PERRY p. 20
No more tax money for new hog farms
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Moral judgments

POPULIST PICKS p. 21
Political music resonates

EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
The NFL’s concussion conundrum
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Books, not bombs
GARRISON KEILLOR p. 22
The dinner of all dinners
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 22
Really good Germans

DONALD KAUL p. 23
Republicans want economy to fail
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
In praise of a Wall Street tax


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