The Progressive POPULIST

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January 1-15, 2011 -- Volume 17, Number 1


TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Dean Baker p. 1
The great deficit con

EDITORIAL p. 2
Tax and spend, liberals!

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Redistribution of America’s wealth to the few; Concerned Wall?Street bankers; Story behind the DeLay conviction; Victory for truth in labeling; Do apples need biotech remake?
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Lifestyle choice can make financial sense

DISPATCHES p. 5
GOP challenge of insurance mandate backfires; Epic tax cut ‘Berniebuster’; States slash Medicaid services; Court nominee backlog; Repubs to 9/11 rescuers: drop dead ...

FROMA HARROP p. 6
American dream is not all about money
P.J. HILL and SHAWN REGAN p. 6
Great Plains is the latest new frontier
NANCY LORD p. 6
This isn’t Sarah Palin’s Alaska
GENE LYONS p. 7
Tax deal: Obama bought himself time
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
The high cost of low price
DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 7
As Feingold leaves, courage leaves too
JAMES K. GALBRAITH p. 8
Casting light on ‘The Moment of Truth’

THE PROGRESS REPORT p. 9
The progressive plan for deficit reduction
BOB BURNETT p. 9
Who should pay to fix the economy?
ANDREW LEONARD p. 9
How starving the beast makes us fat
ROBERT BOROSAGE p. 10
Bad deal, wrong direction
NANCY ALTMAN p. 10
The end of Social Security
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 11
WikiLeaks cables may cause a big idea
ROBERT SCHEER p. 11
From Jefferson to Assange
JOHN NICHOLS p. 11
Sarah Palin vs. Julian Assange
ROBERT REICH p. 12
American jobs emergency requires action
MICHAEL WENGER p. 12
The people who need this deal
ROGER BYBEE p. 13
Obama punts on third down
DAVE WHEELOCK p. 13
Go get ’em, Bernie
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Give tax cuts to the needy
CARL POPE p. 14
Is America the new Becky?Sharp?
JOHN BUELL p. 14
Romance of small business

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Medical credit cards: The new sirens

SAM URETSKY p. 15
Look for made-in-the-USA logo

BILL JOHNSTON p. 15
A failure to plan

WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Austerity vs. infrastructure

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 16
A deficit of creative thinking

MIRIAM PEMBERTON p. 16
Spend more on climate, less on military
JOEL BRINKLEY p. 17
The world’s problem child
NORMAN SOLOMON p. 17
A hollow bomber jacket

MARK WEISBROT p. 17
Illegitimate election is a setback for Haiti
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
The empire strikes back
DAN GILLMOR p. 18
Online, censors scoring big wins
JASON HINKLEY p. 18
What builds a progressive movement?

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Institutional insanity
TED RALL p. 19
Conning the Taliban
BEN IKENSON p. 20
Arizona pounces on homebuilder lending

SETH SANDRONSKY p. 20
World debt with context

ROSIE SORENSON p. 20
Blowing bubbles in North Korea

EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 20
Cam Newton and the ‘neo-plantation’
NATE PEDERSEN p. 21
When socialists cleaned up Milwaukee

DON ROLLINS p. 21
Good law, better food

AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Cancun, climate change and WikiLeaks
COURTNEY WHITE p. 22
Ranchers can fight climate change
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Invertebrate president
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
Three corporate cheers for recessions


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