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COVER/Jim Hightower p. 1
The power of an Acorn
EDITORIAL p. 2
Mandate single-payer; Nader’s back
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Bank-robbing bankers; Home-loan hucksters keep coming; Scoundrels in Iraq; Monsanto seeks to ban truth; How to get kids involved; Flaunting law, flying flag.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Bailing out the big boys
DISPATCHES p. 5
Romney waits for stumble; Big Mac attacks; GOP national security bluff; Edwards’ next act ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Schemes we have seen
RICHARD RHAMES p. 6
High cost of cheap food
ALAN BERNHOLTZ p. 6
Mining reform matters to all of us
GENE LYONS p. 7
Is Obama guilty of the ‘P’ word?
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
Clinton’s trade transformation
RICHARD RHAMES p. 9
C’mon boots, start sloggin’
DON ROLLINS p. 9
An inconvenience truth
WALTER SHAPIRO p. 10
Quest for universal health care
MARGIE BURNS p. 10
Insurance bad faith
ROBERT WEISSMAN p. 11
Reclaiming economic freedom
DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 11
Payday loan sharks circle the vulnerable
GREG PALAST p. 12
Will voter ID laws pick next president?
MARK WEISBROT p. 12
This recession may be a doozy
JOE CONASON p. 13
McCain: reformer or phony?
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 13
Right strengthens hold on McCain
SAM PIZZIGATI p. 13
Dubya’s fiscal swan song
DONALD GUTIERREZ p. 14
America’s twilight
FRANK O’DONNELL p. 14
Environmental déjà vu
DEAN BAKER p. 14
Does Ben Bernanke have to go?
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Of shoes and insurance
SAM URETSKY p. 15
When all else fails, try the obvious
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Strangling democracy
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 16
What straight talk?
JOHN BUELL p. 16
Whose stimulus?
JUAN COLE p. 17
Pakistan turns scary for Bush’s terror war
AMERICAS/Roberto Rodriguez p. 18
War and state of journalism
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
Mushrooming clouds hang over McCain
JOHN NICHOLS p. 18
Obama touts change on Cuba
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Stop importing bad drugs
TED RALL p. 19
How do sleazy senators get away with it?
NATHAN NEWMAN p. 19
States can’t protect consumers, court says
JEROME DOOLITTLE p. 20
John F. Kennedy, plagiarist?
MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon p. 20
From media past, echo of TV invective
ROSIE SORENSON p. 20
With liberty and phonics for all
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Wired and inspired
POPULIST PICKS p. 21
What’s new
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
When paint is not enough
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Lessons of internment
GARRISON KEILLOR p. 22
Zero visibility on Highway 52
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Economy another conservative screw-up
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
American peon
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