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COVER/Paul Kiel p. 1
Loan modification scams are booming
EDITORIAL p. 2
Health reform reaches playoffs/Nobel Prize
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Goofing up health care reform; Obama must get going on jobs; Chicken war; New signs of sanity at EPA; Hyatt blindsides housekeepers
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Obama’s done some good, if you’re scoring
DISPATCHES p. 5
Insurance industry strikes back; Insurance won’t cover baby fat; GOP Sens. defend gang rape coverup; 51% made tough med choices; Health care depends on location; ‘ACORN standard’ applied to defense firms; Innocence no bar to Texas executions ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Health care reform helps all generations
JIM GOODMAN p. 6
Common sense could promote food safety
JONATHAN THOMPSON p. 6
Cult of canning exposed
GENE LYONS p. 7
Is Obama man or mouse, asks punditocracy
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
Zombie zeitgeist
DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 7
Profiteers squeezing dairy farmers
CAPITAL TIMES p. 8
Yes, let’s end America’s health care holocaust
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 9
Stressed homeowners lack legal help
JIM VAN DER POL p. 9
Pretty speeches only take us so far
ART CULLEN p. 10
Cut carbon, build heartland
JANE ANNE MORRIS p. 10
Corporate ‘personhood’ must be challenged
BOB BURNETT p. 10
The problem with capitalism
K. OZER & M. ISHII-EITEMAN p. 11
Obama caves in to agribusiness
JOHN BUELL p. 11
The politics of morality
CHUCK COLLINS p. 11
Neighbors join up in tough times
ROBERT BOROSAGE p. 12
Beck isn’t blocking health care reform
DEAN BAKER p. 12
The recovery: Can you feel it yet?
JOE CONASON p. 13
Time for media to fess up
JOHN NICHOLS p. 13
Moore exposes Ryan’s bank bailout bluster
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 14
One soldier dies; another mother prays
ROGER BYBEE p. 14
Dixie media vs. unions
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Derrion tragedy sign of much bigger illness
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Pat on the back for Big Brother
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Disregard deficit hawks
HOLLY SKLAR p. 15
Medicare for all: Yes, we can!
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
States’ rights — and wrongs
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 16
Passing reform moment
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 16
Victory: Chicago loses Olympics
MARK WEISBROT p. 17
G-20 doesn’t offer much reform
DAVID SCHMIDT p. 17
The many shades of interventionism
AMERICAS/Roberto Rodriguez p. 18
Health, war-peace hypocrisy and taxes
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
The booster
NORMAN SOLOMON p. 18
Starting another year of war in Afghanistan
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Cash or credit conundrum
TED RALL p. 19
Rebuild Afghanistan, then leave
MICHAEL LIND p. 20
An interview with the late Adam Smith
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Where are the artists on health care reform?
POPULIST PICKS p. 21
Two Grams to take you back
EMANUEL BOUSSIOS p. 21
America in crisis? 9/11, recession, H1N1 flu
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Watch what you tweet
GARRISON KEILLOR p. 22
I was so wrong ... cons deserve health care, too
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Leaning against Afghanistan war
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
The age of austerity
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