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COVER/Greg Palast p. 1
Tokyo Electric to build US nukes
EDITORIAL p. 2
New Populist moment
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
America’s leadership crisis; Democracy to plutocracy; Downward mobility in rising economy; Bank robbers on the loose; Don’t mess with librarians; War on cold medicine
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Walker bankrupts family farmers
DISPATCHES p. 5
Teabaggers target wounded vets; NYT to digerati: Reporting costs money; Public prefers military cuts over health, retirement trims; Michigan, Ohio voters have regrets ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Mother Nature defeats best-laid plans
JESS HUNTER-BOWMAN p 6
Free trade loses in Latin America
TOM CARTER p. 6
Coal business comes to Kane County
GENE LYONS p. 7
GOP looks stupid next to President Obama
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
Mad science in the labs of democracy
DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 7
Walker cuts transit funding
ROBERT L. CAVNAR p. 8
Adult conversation on nuclear power needed
JUSTIN ELLIOTT p. 8
Crisis casts doubt on nuke industry PR
NORMAN SOLOMON p. 9
Nuclear power madness
P. BREER and K. DONOHOE p. 9
GOP increases burden on working families
RJ ESKOW p. 10
Corporations gain control in Wisconsin
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 11
My mother taught success
RANDOLPH T. HOLHUT p. 11
Persistence of fascism and fight to stop it
DEAN BAKER p. 12
Key to rebuilding workers’ power: unrig rules
ROBERT BOROSAGE p. 12
Whistling past the ruins: ‘education moment’
JOHN NICHOLS
Creating a new politics for Wisconsin
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 13
The continuing mortgage mess
BOB BURNETT p. 13
US treats children poorly
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Walker rolls back social protections
BILL McKIBBEN p. 14
Why Congress doesn’t care about climate change
RANDY TURNER p. 14
The failure of American teachers
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
States cut budgets of working-class aid
SAM URETSKY p. 15
GOP counts on failing memories
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Passing the buck on deficits
ROGER BYBEE p. 16
Wisconsinites still plot recall
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 17
Zealots grandstand across the pond
B. MOYERS & M. WINSHIP p. 17
NPR: the saga continues
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
The other side of the Ring of Fire
AMERICAS/Roberto Rodriguez p. 18
Brown people not welcome
BOOKS/Seth Sandronsky p. 18
Socialists ponder repeated capitalist crises
RALPH NADER p. 19
Public media leans to the right
TED RALL p. 19
Potential Tajik flood dwarfs crisis in Japan
JIM CULLEN p. 20
Documentary fans in luck at SXSW Fest
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Some crime-show acorns fall far from tree
POPULIST PICKS p. 21
Likeable lawyer
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Press release that redefined chutzpah
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Japan recalls nuclear bomb
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Children learn hard in Great Recession
DONALD KAUL p. 23
US spends too much on military
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
Never too old to work
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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