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COVER/R. Hickey and E. Warren p. 1
Populist agenda — in Elizabeth Warren’s words
EDITORIAL p. 2
Congress heads for trouble; College affordability
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Populist proposals won in 2014; America’s ongoing rebellion for fairness and justice; Citigroup becomes its own self-serving lawmaker; Cannabis: America’s common sense crop; Corporate power grab underway
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Happy New Year, ye fellow sinners
EMILY SCHWARTZ GRECO p. 5
Tilting at turbines
DISPATCHES p. 5
Dems push populist tax plans;
Lame-duck ‘Cromnibus’ showed bipartisan splits;
What Dems got out of the 'Cromnibus';
Repubs aim to repeal immigration orders;
Boxer retirement shakes up Cal politics;
Postal Service cuts deliverty standards;
New rule streamlines union elections;
House votes to gut financial reforms;
Warren, progressives sink Obama Treasury nominee;
Legislators look at increasing wages;
Bad bills stand out as Congress debuts;
Wind generates 98% of Scot home power
...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Behold, the magic kingdom of dynamic scoring
MARK TRAHANT p. 6
Four reasons why Keystone is a goner
JILL RICHARDSON p. 6
End the Cuban embargo for good
GENE LYONS p. 7
Veronica Rutledge and our country’s gun cult
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 7
Scalia: Torture’s not torture unless he says it is
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
How states are redistributing the wealth
MICHAEL LUX p. 9
2015: A year of opportunity for progressives
ELIAS ISQUITH p. 10
GOP’s new attack on Social Security
HEATHER DIGBY PARTON p. 10
New Congress may be worse than you think
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Our duty in Afghanistan continues
DEAN BAKER p. 11
Don’t believe what you hear about US economy
JASON STANFORD p. 11
Uber’s surge pricing is price gouging
LEO W. GERARD p. 12
Ensuring the uninsured suffer
WENDELL POTTER p. 12
Good news on health care in 2014
NORMAN SOLOMON p. 12
Sterling deserves support as whistleblower
JOAN WALSH p. 13
Scalise must go
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
Why the TPP is a pending disaster
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
The hope deficit
JIM VAN DER POL p. 14
Ferguson another divide-and-conquer episode
WENONAH HAUTER p. 14
New Congress, more problems
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
The Medicaid gap: A variation on Jim Crow
SAM URETSKY p. 15
A shining citizen on the hill passes
BOB BURNETT p. 15
Five presidential candidates
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
The deliberate stupidity of austerity
JOHN BUELL p. 16
Race, class and police militarization
N. GUNASEKARAN p. 17
Privatization drives in Asia; brisk, but brutal
STEPHANIE HILLER p. 17
Non-nuclear nations take lead at conference
JOE CONASON p. 18
GOP should stop making excuses for Scalise
TINA DUPUY p. 18
We’re a nation of laws
MARK ANDERSON p. 18
IRS faulted for scrutinizing right-wing ‘nonprofit’
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
How birth year legacies can better our country
TED RALL p. 19
Obama won’t bring torturers to justice
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 20
Myth of post-racial America
BOOK REVIEW/Seth Sandronsky p. 20
Climate justice movements
DARYL CAGLE p. 20
France cartoonists and murder
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Hail the mayor of MacDougal Street
POPULIST PICKS p. 21
It’s a mystery
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Stuart Scott was my strength
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Climate deniers thrive
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Je suis Charlie
WILL DURST p. 23
Bushes 3, United States 0
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
A sure (and sad) New Year’s prediction
Cover illustration by Kevin Kreneck
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This page posted January 17, 2015