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COVER/Roger Bybee p. 1
Walker declares war on workers
EDITORIAL p. 2
Unite and conquer
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Congress critters; Budget-cutting immorality; Out-of-whack budget whackers; Billionaire bullies; Corporate patriots steal from government; Blankfein rakes in cash.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/McMillen p. 5
Mubarak is gone; Coke stays
DISPATCHES p. 5
GOP makes poor, middle class pay for corporate tax breaks; Wisconsin GOP?mulls sale of state power plants; DC pundits forget jobs; Dam shame; Fiscal compromise elusive ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Don’t buy simple talk on budgets
ARDEN TEWKSBURY p. 6
Farmers work against traders
NATHANIEL HOFFMAN p. 6
Government fertilizes local food craze
GENE LYONS p. 7
What the right won’t admit about Reagan
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
Submerged state
DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 7
‘Pro-lifers’ forget life after birth
JOHN NICHOLS p. 8
Never prouder of my state, workers, unions
THINK PROGRESS p. 9
Chamber wields dirty tricksters
JOHN NICHOLS p. 9
Vets protest National Guard threat
RICHARD TRUMKA p. 9
Deficit hawks assault budgets
ROBERT REICH p. 10
Republicans debate over nothing
JIM VAN DER POL p. 10
Making lemonade out of the economy
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 11
Two parties hurt US government
DEAN BAKER p. 11
Greenspan does ‘heckuva job’
ROBERT BOROSAGE p. 11
Congress slashes education
WENDELL POTTER p. 12
Insurers reveal agenda for change
BOB BURNETT p. 12
Republicans renew war on women
ELLEN BROWN p. 13
Citizens push for state-owned banks
HARRY SHEARER p. 13
Census shows New Orleans ethnic cleansing
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Republicans massacre social services
RANDOLPH T. HOLHUT p. 14
Vermont takes on corporate personhood
MARK WEISBROT p. 14
Yes, we can reduce unemployment ...
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Physicians question gun safety
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Fear makes conservatives happy
DON ROLLINS p. 15
The poor pay the rich
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Following the money
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 16
Obama’s bad budget math
NORMAN SOLOMON p. 17
‘Good’ dictator goes bad
JOEL BRINKLEY p. 17
Bush inflates democracy agenda
BOOK/Seth Sandronsky p. 17
Dead ideas walking
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
Reagan wasn’t that great
JAMES K. GALBRAITH p. 18
Deficit argument becoming tired
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Time to topple corporate dictators
TED RALL p. 19
Pirate this book
DAVID ELLIOT p. 19
States grapple with spending
‘MARK’ p. 20
When hope runs out on long-term jobless
MICHAEL MCCARTHY p. 20
Peace Corps becoming gentleman’s club
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Cons can’t stand public broadcasting
POPULIST PICKS p. 21
Real-life fantasy
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Packers sound off against Gov. Walker
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Obama budget freezes poor
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Republicans propose to wipe out NEA
DONALD KAUL p. 23
My favorite Republican
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
The evil public service unions poem
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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