The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
March 15, 2010 -- Volume 16, Number 5


TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Joseph B. Atkins p. 1
‘Toyota Way’ under recall

EDITORIAL p. 2
Finish the health bill

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Greed trophy up for grabs; Selling political love to Wall Street; Supreme Court’s next step; People speak, Congress fiddles; Sallie Mae’s sugar addiction
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Don’t write off Detroit

DISPATCHES p. 5
Health reform finals; Sometime Senate populists; Key states support public option; People don’t like what they don’t know; Who broke US jobs machine?; Bipartisan Band-Aid ...

CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 6
Every GI death merits presidential letter
MICHAEL I. NIMAN p. 6
Politics of snow

CARL POPE p. 6
Save winter, stop tar sands
GENE LYONS p. 7
Don’t give in to fatalism
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
Rogues gone wild
DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 7
More schemes from credit card firms
CHARLIE CRAY p. 8
Corporate death squads haunt multinats

JOHN NICHOLS p. 9
Manufacturing policy miscues haunt US
ROBERT REICH p. 9
Welfare for Wall Street, free markets for us
DEAN BAKER p. 9
Folks who missed bubble want Social Security
JANE ANNE MORRIS p. 10
Campaign money ruling is red herring

ROBERT WEISSMAN p. 10
Disadvantaged class? Corporate speech index

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 11
Tea Party 600: Canaries in the coal mine?
JOE CONASON p. 11
Bayh’s bye-bye; Top 400 income up, taxes down
ROGER BYBEE p. 12
Obama’s Wall St. dalliance demoralizes Dems

JOHN BUELL p. 13
Car culture and global conflict
BOB BURNETT p. 13
Can Democrats use rope-a-dope?

FROMA HARROP p. 14
Just where is the middle?
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Don’t let senators off hook on student loans
RICHARD ESKOW p. 14
End Dems’ magical thinking about ‘Cadillac tax’
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
E-cigarettes: health vs. business

SAM URETSKY p. 15
Funny papers

WENDELL POTTER p. 15
WellPoint’s heart-stopping rate hike
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Getting their crazy on
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 16
Nuclear costs raise questions

DON ROLLINS p. 16
Devil in a true guess

MARK WEISBROT p. 17
Answer to the people, not greedy elites
RAY RING p. 17
Supremes may rock even greater precedents
AMERICAS/Roberto Rodriguez p. 18
Guidance of Maria Molina
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
Only Dems can cut ‘entitlements’
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
No nukes
TED RALL p. 19
Hey, Tea Partiers, you’re leftists!
MAXWELL EPSTEIN p. 20
Cooperation instead of competition

BOOKS/Ryder Miller p. 20
Steinbeck felt wrath for ‘Grapes’

NATE PEDERSEN p. 20
Bad timing crushed Progressive Wallace

ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Great songs can change the world

POPULIST PICKS p. 21
Guilty pleasures

EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Who dat? Dat’s the Super Bowl champs!
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Nuclear option
GARRISON KEILLOR p. 22
Get busy, Democrats
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Palin’s Tea Party
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
None dare call it reform


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