Note: Some links from this page may take you away from the
Progressive Populist web site. To return to this page, simply
click the "Back" button or its equivalent on your web browser.
COVER/Shahien Nasiripour p. 1
Mortgage banks accused of fraud
EDITORIAL p. 2
Keep palaver palatable
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
What’s inside Big Oil’s head?; A morally untenable corporate system; A little less corporate political corruption; Who’s behind attempt to muzzle Mich. profs?; From regulating Comcast to joining it.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Corporate co-dependents
DISPATCHES p. 5
Medicare cuts open chasm under GOP; Dems might bail out GOP; Labor explores independence; Don’t ask about climate change ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
GOP: Try again on Medicare
JOEL GREENO p. 6
Making a statement with our tractors
RAUL A. REYES p. 6
Mitt Romney’s Mexican roots
GENE LYONS p. 7
GOP chokes on own Medicare Kool-Aid
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
New trade pact will kill jobs
DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 7
Don’t blame feds for lost rail dollars
ROBERT SCHEER p. 8
Lawman with guts to go after Wall St.
ELLEN BROWN p. 9
Feds to states: ‘Drop dead’
ROBERT REICH p. 9
Washington stalls on the economy
LEE FANG & TRAVIS WALDRON p. 10
Kochs fuel far-right academic centers
ROGER BYBEE p. 10
Corporations shift health costs to workers
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 11
Leaders fail to focus on jobs
MICHAEL B. KEEGAN p. 11
State budget battles weaken finances
R.J. ESKOW p. 12
Long-term care ‘crisis’ is really a choice
DEAN BAKER p. 12
Social Security good news and bad news
CHRIS KROMM p. 13
How conservative is the South?
STEVE BUNK p. 13
We’re not all right in Idaho
SAM PIZZIGATI p. 13
Deconstructing a Paul Ryan sound bite
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Separate and unequal once more
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 14
College graduates face the real debt crisis
DON ROLLINS p. 14
Philip Morris CEO says quitting is easy
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Technology makes a nation of snoops
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Scientists study what makes a conservative
BOB BURNETT p. 15
‘Cool’ returns to the White House
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Paul Ryan’s dreamtime
JOHN BUELL p. 16
Bin Laden dominates national politics
TA-NEHISI COATES p. 17
Going cold on bin Laden
ROBERT WEISSMAN p. 17
Chamber of Commerce lives in Wonderland
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 17
Capitalism left unchecked spreads disease
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
America celebrates bin Laden death
AMERICAS/Roberto Rodriguez p. 18
Recall Arizona from the 19th century
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Billionaires called to help working class
TED RALL p. 19
Liberal dissent stifled under Obama
BARRY ESTABROOK p. 20
Gas fracking threatens food supply
BOOK/Seth Sandronsky p. 20
America’s labor wars
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Music industry could use more informed critics
POPULIST PICKS p. 21
Documentaries outshine bleak features
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Santana booed for civil rights speech
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
‘Electronic brownshirts’ smear progressives
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Low wages, high expectations at nursing homes
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Congress plays debt ceiling Kabuki
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
Gunga Ben
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
You are welcome to check out these samples from our recent issue, but please consider subscribing to the genuine article. Only $37.95 for a full year (22 issues), will get you the choice of our regular newsprint edition, the full text by email or a PDF facsimile of the newsprint edition delivered to your mailbox or email inbox. For details, see here
This page posted May 27, 2011