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COVER/Robert Weissman p. 1
Wall Street’s best investment: Buying Washington
EDITORIAL p. 2
Beware faux populism
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
The sanctity of corporate contracts; Class bias in tax code; Bailed-out bank bails out bankers; Put public back in public safety; Stiffing workers, corporate welfare; Microchipping America
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Time for TV detox
DISPATCHES p. 5
Love and hate for bank fix; Say you want a revolution; Stop Wall St. loan sharks; Treasury aims tax money at mortgage wreckers; Palin’s poor timing; Pork carries superbug ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
‘Then it’s securities fraud’
ANDREA PEACOCK p. 6
Poisoned town gets shot at justice
NATE PEDERSEN p. 6
Vermont Progressives party on
GENE LYONS p. 7
Media’s guide to economic stupidity
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
Is GOP for or against competition?
ROBERT REICH p. 8
Obama’s Wall Street bailout failure
BOB BURNETT p. 9
Obama’s bank problem
JOHN BUELL p. 9
Obama’s political crisis
NICK TURSE p. 10
Food banks need bailout
ELLEN BROWN p. 11
Turning tables on Wall Street
MARGIE BURNS p. 11
What about ‘executive assassination ring’?
ROBERT BOROSAGE p. 12
Time to dog the dogs
DEAN BAKER p. 12
Granny bashers: Different facts, same policy
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 13
What if Jon Stewart interviewed Cheney?
JOE CONASON p. 13
Questions our health care debate ignores
STEVEN GDULA p. 14
Plowing the 40th floor
ANDREW LEONARD p. 14
Economists agree: Print. Money. Now.
RANDY UDALL p. 14
If island becomes energy independent ...
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Victory for the public good
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Hard times for health care
JESSE JACKSON p. 15
Invest in education, forgive college loans
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Zombie banks and zombie bankers
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 16
Momentum shift
JOHN NICHOLS p. 16
Don’t give prez power to veto earmarks
CHRISTOPHER COOK p. 17
The world is flat ... on its back
N. GUNASEKARAN p. 17
The myth called ‘corporate ethics’
AMERICAS/Roberto Rodriguez p. 18
40 years of youth liberation
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
How networks went into drug-peddling
DON ROLLINS p. 18
Thingification
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Justice on Wall Street
TED RALL p. 19
Change you can parse
JIM CULLEN p. 20
Just the facts at SXSW
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Jungle music
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Branded: the madness of March
MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon p. 20
Bumper stickers as antidotes to media
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Those hit the hardest get no bailout
GARRISON KEILLOR p. 22
Where’s my disability check?
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Health care system on life support
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
Magic circle—broken
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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