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COVER/Lou Dubose p. 1
Paint Creek native runs for president
EDITORIAL p. 2
Perry’s ‘Texas miracle’
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
‘Gov. Supercuts’ for president?; Corporate mule vs. FAA workers; Your job, Mr. President, is jobs; Gov. eaten up by corporate ideology; Living in luxury—with Glenn Beck
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Creating deserts in the Midwest
DISPATCHES p. 5
Obama’s job push; Cantor rejects stimulus; Economists call for tax increases; Progs protest job inaction; Dems win Wis. recalls; Sanders demands oil spec limits ...
AMANDA HITT p. 6
Truckers play key food safety role
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Letting states make policy
ARI LeVAUX p. 6
Food safety is a matter of power
GENE LYONS p. 7
The bully the GOP?has been waiting for
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
Collateral damage in war on anonymity
DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 7
Get ready for coming culture wars
JAMES MOORE p. 8
Rick Perry plays a Christian
MOLLY IVINS p. 8
Molly can’t say that about Rick Perry, can she?
MATT YGLESIAS p. 9
Ten weirdest ideas in Perry’s ‘Fed Up’
JAMES McCARTY YEAGER p. 9
Bachmania foreclosed by Perry
SAM STEIN p. 10
Progressives unveil ‘Contract’
REBUILD THE DREAM p. 10
Contract for the American Dream
TINA DUPUY p. 10
Forget Rick—Mitt Romney is perfect for GOP
ROBERT REICH p. 11
Fix health care law with Medicare for All
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 11
Empathy needed to reconnect nation
DEAN BAKER p. 11
The S&P downgrade myth
ELLEN BROWN p. 12
Market has spoken; austerity bad for business
BOB BURNETT p. 12
Why did capitalism fail?
ROBERT BOROSAGE p. 10
Washington caves as jobs crisis continues
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
America can’t be saved from the top
ROGER BYBEE p. 14
Corporations push offshore tax breaks
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Quality, schmality
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Government is not the enemy
MARK ENGLER p. 15
Starving Uncle Sam
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Under Wall Street’s thumb
JOHN BUELL p. 16
From markets to crony capitalism
N. GUNASEKARAN p. 17
China’s dream
MARK WEISBROT p. 17
US and Europe: Slow strangulation ahead
CHRISTOPER COOK p. 17
Burying Jiri’s ashes
DONALD ROLLINS p. 18
Missing Amy Winehouse
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
Riots and the underclass; view from US
ELISE FOLEY p. 18
Latinos to Obama: Change on immigration
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Ray Anderson: Enlightened CEO
TED RALL p. 19
Down and out at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave
MICHAEL MOORE p. 20
30 year ago: Day the middle class died
BILL JOHNSTON p. 20
Unions: Lots of deer vs. oncoming trucks
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Sorting out sports
POPULIST PICKS p. 21
Burned by ‘tort reform’
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
London Olympics and the London riots
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
San Francisco’s BART pulls a Mubarak
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
It’s your war, too
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Can’t anybody here play this game
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
The great Social Security scam
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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