The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
March 1, 2013 -- Volume 19, Number 4


TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Andrew Leonard p. 1
Did I kill the post office?

EDITORIAL p. 2
Save the Postal Service

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
A common sense crop for America’s good; Outlawing exposes of factory farm horrors; Good retail jobs would be good for America; Monsanto vs. Mother Nature: Guess who’s winning?; Who’s feeding Bush puppy?
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
ROBERT SCHEER p. 5
It’s good to be Goldman
DISPATCHES p. 5
Tea Party puts brakes on immigration reform; Naturalization helps everybody; Move to overturn ‘Citizens United’; D.C. Circuit loses fourth judge; Move to legalize marijuana; Bad faith behind Benghazi inquiries; No drones over Charlottesville ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
‘Baby bust’ baloney
JIM HARKNESS p. 6
The end of the farm bill?
SHARLENE LEURIG p. 6
Big water projects make Westerners queasy
GENE LYONS p. 7
Modern-day know-nothings take control
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
The Santa Clausification of Dr. King
BOB BURNETT p. 7
Chuck Hagel: Obama’s hatchet man?
NORMAN SOLOMON p. 8
Verbal tics and political routines

DON ROLLINS p. 8
Obama, race and a moment in time

ROGER BYBEE p. 9
Discounting votes via redistricting

LEO W. GERARD p. 9
Immigration reform prevents employer abuse
GEORGIA LOGOTHETIS p. 10
What you may not know about gun violence
JONATHAN THOMPSON p. 10
Which way will the west go on guns?
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 11
Clinton can help us all be ‘untired’
WENDELL POTTER p. 11
Why Americans pay so much for health care
DAVE JAMIESON p. 11
Court’s recess appointment ruling
ROBERT BOROSAGE p. 12
Warning: Deficit delusions endanger your job
ROBERT B. REICH p. 12
The non-zero-sum society
IAN MILLHISER and ZACH BEAUCHAMP p. 13
5 practical ideas to rein in presidential power
PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel p. 13
No more playing footsie with banksters?
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Chicago’s cry
WENONAH HAUTER p. 14
The nuclear family is about to get radioactive
AMERICAS/Roberto Rodriguez p. 14
Remanding migrants ‘to the end of the line’
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Obamacare spurs hospital quality

SAM URETSKY p. 15
New retirees depend on Social Security
JOHN YOUNG p. 15
America’s new separatists
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Tax policy flimflam

JOHN BUELL p. 16
Liberalism’s uncertain future

MARK WEISBROT p. 17
Media hate fest for Venezuela keeps keepin’ on
DEAN BAKER p. 17
Tax games and redistributing income upward
JOE CONASON p. 18
Benghazi hearings: Capitol Hill’s angry little men
TINA DUPUY p. 18
Dear GOP, Cubans are not Mexican
MARK ANDERSON p. 18
‘Anti-union’ machine targets middle class

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Low serious news from mainstream media
TED RALL p. 19
Weird times
NINA BURLEIGH p. 20
Who really wins the war on women?
NATHAN NEWMAN p. 20
Should we tax content providers?
BOOK REVIEW/Seth Sandronsky p. 20
Locked up and locked out
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Golden age of imported TV

POPULIST PICKS p. 21
‘Ted’; ‘Magic Mike’; ‘The Invention of Lying’
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
The blackout bowl
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Brennan and Kiriakou, drones and torture
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Praise be — I’m liberal, and just like you
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Obama’s Battle Hymn of the Republic
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
Davos dreaming

Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen


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