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COVER/Erica Ferencik p. 1
They shoot real estate agents, don’t they?
EDITORIAL p. 2
Blue skies, green jobs
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Boondoggle hurts students; Summers bails out financial cronies; Bailed-out banker creates jobs in India; Banksters get special break; Sen. Corker chokes on hypocrisy; Mockery of democracy
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Lessons for First Farmers
DISPATCHES p. 5
Brace for health reform fight; Single-payer advocates turn to states; Weak tea for GOP; How unpopular are Republicans?; Rush raises reds; Lights, camera, mayhem on border ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Like rats in a cage
JIM GOODMAN p. 6
In praise of peasants
DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 6
Church/state wall as essential as ever
GENE LYONS p. 7
The once and future newspaper
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
Questions about Columbine
POLLY CLEVELAND p. 8
Real estate bubble
DEAN BAKER p. 9
The need to tax the wealthy
STEVEN GDULA p. 9
Stimulus and national school lunch program
ART CULLEN p. 9
Taking on immigration
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 10
Here’s a switch: Good news about banking
ROBERT BOROSAGE p. 10
Taxing matters
MARY SANCHEZ p. 10
Militia report makes right-wingers see red
JOHN BUELL p. 11
Future of ‘inflexible labor markets’
MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon p. 11
Dispensing with unpleasant memories
HAL CROWTHER p. 12
High Noon: Where laws have failed
BOB BURNETT p. 13
Is the recession a teachable moment?
KATHARINE MIESZKOWSKI p. 14
The dirty green line
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Debt forecloses grads’ life choices
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Negotiating for survival
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Too big to succeed
BEN LILLISTON p. 15
Commodity speculation: It’s bankers again
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Progressive agenda
JIM FREEMAN p. 16
Ups, downs of Obama’s Czech visit
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 16
There is no good war
MARGIE BURNS p. 17
Tax day, tax havens: muddy waters offshore
AMERICAS/Roberto Rodriguez p. 18
Border walls: Et tu, Obama?
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
From Twin Towers to Twin Camelots
ROBERT WEISSMAN p. 18
No blank check for the IMF
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Bailout indignation
TED RALL p. 19
Every dogi has its day
JOHN NICHOLS p. 20
Congress needs some socialists
E. BOUSSIOS & S. COLE p. 20
Will Americans support war in Afghanistan?
JASON SALZMAN p. 20
Will we miss newspapers if they die?
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Songwriting beyond Dylan
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Shed no tears for the Spartans
POPULIST PICKS p. 21
Crossing the pond
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Pacifica at age 60: Sanctuary of dissent
GARRISON KEILLOR p. 22
Write a poem, get the girl
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Can’t believe anything anymore
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
The local taxing lurker
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This page posted April 22, 2009