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COVER/Andrew Leonard p. 1
GOP’s risky bet: repeal of healthcare reform
EDITORIAL p. 2
Keep up the fight but put down the guns
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Playing with economic dynamite; Whose side is Obama on?; Boehner’s people; Earmarks, schmearmarks; GOP gooberheads in action; A banker who gets it
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
‘Obvious’ reforms take long, hard work
DISPATCHES p. 5
Obama inaction on gun control doesn’t stop gun-rights alarms; Why so many mentally ill?; DeLay gets 3 years; Health repeal could kill 4M jobs; War against public sector unions ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Mystery of the missing millionaires
ARI LEVAUX p. 6
2010: The year of food politics
LINDSAY DAHL p. 6
Protect consumers from toxic chemicals
GENE LYONS p. 7
Not the death panels again
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
America’s snow-filled future
DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 7
Estate tax exemption is just too much
ANDREW LEONARD p. 8
‘The most monumental insanity’
MARTY KAPLAN p. 9
Vitriol is in our national bloodstream
ROBERT BOROSAGE p. 9
Job #1: Jobs
AMANDA TERKEL p. 10
Scalia: Women don’t have protection
BOB BURNETT p. 10
‘Person’ of the year: US Supreme Court
CORPORATE FOCUS/Robert Weissman p. 10
Corporate junk economics return
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 11
Will Boehner party like it’s 1995?
JOEL JOSEPH p. 11
New York taxis should be made in USA
JOHN BUELL p. 11
More concrete, less abstraction
ROBERT REICH p. 12
Stealth attack on American education
ROGER BYBEE p. 12
Man bites dog: U.S. firm moves jobs home
DEAN BAKER p. 13
Saving Social Security
JOHN NICHOLS p. 13
Progressive presidential challenger?
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
GOP goes after the weak
LAURA BASSETT p. 14
Loan scam bankrupting working parents
JOSH STEARNS p. 14
Protect public media
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
The petulant Americans
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Boomers ride to rescue Social Security
KAREN DOLAN p. 15
Not much to celebrate with tax deal
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Economics of slash and burn
TANYA SOMANADER p. 16
House GOP breaks pledges on first day BOOK REVIEW/Sandronsky p. 16
Spend more on climate, less on military
JOEL BRINKLEY p. 17
Gulf states should take DIY approach
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 17
A new START toward nuclear sanity
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
Honor the WikiLeakers
AMERICAS/Roberto Rodriguez p. 18
Creation in a time of resistance
TA-NEHISI COATES p. 18
Civil War: The root cause and the lost cause
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Big pharma’s fraud
TED RALL p. 19
Next: Digital totalitarianism
PAUL CIENFUEGOS p. 20
Yes we can challenge corporate rule
DON ROLLINS p. 20
Stiffer spines
MARGIE BURNS p. 20
Mortgage bundlers should pay fees
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Some fine music, if little politics, in 2010
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Goodell to NFL: ‘Drop dead’
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Step away from the corporations
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Some dreams refuse to die
DONALD KAUL p. 23
GOP: Man of the year
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
The new third rail
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This page posted January 14, 2010