The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
October 15, 2008 -- Volume 14, Number 18


TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Jim Cullen p. 1
Cleaning up after the conservatives

EDITORIAL p. 2
Slow the bailout mo

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Sarah Palin’s faux populism; Empty promise to vets; Banking jobs on the move; Another mess to clean up
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Masters of distraction

DISPATCHES p. 5
Who do you trust? McCain’s free-market health plan; Palins snub Alaska subpoenas; Stones thrown from glass houses on Fannie Mae bailout; Shallow reporting on deep drilling; Senators dispute FBI anthrax case ...

FROMA HARROP p. 6
McCain and the meltdown
STAN COX p. 6
Keep germ lab quarantined
ED QUILLEN p. 6
We’ve heard ‘drill now’ drumbeat before
GENE LYONS p. 7
With McCain, bombs away
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
No time for a minimalist
DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 7
Cash-starved gov’ts taking wrong road
ALAN WOLFE p. 9
Lying game
THOMAS I. PALLEY p. 9
The liquidation trap
JOHN NICHOLS p. 10
Presidential race tight, as expected
JOYCE MARCEL p. 10
Lipstick on which pig?
RICHARD RHAMES p. 11
Suburban renewal and other icky things

MARK WEISBROT p. 11
Take a second look at ‘free trade’ pacts
ROB RICHIE p. 11
Clearing Barr with instant runoff voting

DAVID TALBOT p. 12
Sarah Palin’s wasteful ways
JOHN BUELL p. 12
Home economics, Palin-style

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 13
Palin Doctrine: Why neocons are excited
JOE CONASON p. 13
Corporate financiers are wrong
ANDREW KORFHAGE p. 14
Three energy steps for a new president
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Two reasons to lend to carmakers
ANDREW GREELEY p. 14
Next chapter for far righ: Burn books
ART CULLEN p. 14
Our superior values

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Be afraid of this crusade

SAM URETSKY p. 15
Where are health pros?

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon p. 15
Rhetorical slugfests
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Deadly cargoes

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 16
Speaking in tongues

WILLIAM A. COLLINS p. 16
You say you got sick at the hospital?
KATIE HALPER p. 17
McCain’s Spanish snub explained
WALTER SHAPIRO p. 17
Money talks, Barack. Are you listening?
AMERICAS/Roberto Rodriguez p. 18
He has a tail ... and two horns
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
Even Swift couldn’t match McCain satire
BEN BURKETT p. 18
Free trade for ag is disastrous
ROBERT WEISSMAN p. 19
Financial re-regulatory agenda
TED RALL p. 19
The good, the bad and the editor
MARGIE BURNS p. 20
Insurance companies duck the Big One

JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 20
Dan Quayle’s legacy: Crony capitalism

ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Daniel Craig renews the Franchise
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
When bears die ...
POPULIST PICKS/Rob Patterson
Soul from across the pond

AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Wall Street socialists
GARRISON KEILLOR p. 22
Lighting out for the territories
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Making ‘more of the same’ sound like change
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
The bad bank


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