The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
March 15, 2012 -- Volume 18, Number 5


TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Chris Kirkham p. 1
States get cash for prisons

EDITORIAL p. 2
Breaking up is hard to do

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Money governs America; Take a ride in Rick’s head; Newt’s revealing dance around the L-word; Polishing the Apple; The rich also suffer
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Don’t worry, eat your ‘transgenic’ food

DISPATCHES p. 5
Billionaire Romney donor threatens critics; Payroll tax cut bill includes work sharing; Loss of tax credits threaten wind energy; US gas goes overseas; GOP wrecks the vote; Why did single-payer health fail in Calif.? ...

FROMA HARROP p. 6
Missiles target Social Security and Medicare
JODI PETERSON p. 6
Ranchers get alternatives to grazing war
BILL JOHNSTON p. 6
President needs to exercise power

DAVID SIROTA p. 7
Frugality enters public square debate
WILL DURST p. 7
Mitt Romney’s tone-deaf tin ear
GENE LYONS p. 7
GOP joins Catholic bishops in power play
JOHN NICHOLS p. 9
Walker ‘courage’ is catering to the Kochs
NICK PENNIMAN p. 9
Private prisons create incarceration incentives
KAREN DOLAN p. 10
Populism, belt tightening in Obama’s budget
MIKE LUX p. 10
Challenge fraudulent mortgage practices
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 11
‘Culture war’ matters little compared to jobs
DEAN BAKER p. 11
First-time homebuyer tax credit botched
BILL MOYERS & M. WINSHIP p. 12
1% seek to control 2012 election
ROBERT REICH p. 12
Factory jobs aren’t coming back; do better
ALYSSA BATTISTONI p. 13
GOP, greens spar over Keystone pipeline
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 13
Drilling industry SNAFU

DON ROLLINS p. 14
Obama promotes education as equalizer

JOHN BUELL p. 14
Global climate change lessons from Southwest

JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Republicans enjoy health care they deny us
TED RALL p. 15
Time for a maximum wage
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Romneycare improves health in Mass.

SETH SANDRONSKY p. 15
Wealth extraction sparks Mexican revolutions

TINA DUPUY p. 16
Republicans get ‘severely conservative’
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Primal scream of the GOP
DAVID SCHMIDT p. 17
Mexican town embodies NAFTA

ROBERT WEISSMAN p. 17
Moves to prevent Congressional insider trading
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
Some words need to be retired
SAM URETSKY p. 18
Santorum crusades to rewrite history

ROGER BYBEE p. 19
Church mobilizes sheep against Obama
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Democrats can landslide Repubs
CHRISTOPHER COOK p. 20
Workers rank behind social issues

JIM VAN DER POL p. 20
Small farmers keep economy moving

ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Whose ‘Homeland’ is it?

POPULIST PICKS p. 21
Ruthie Foster returns to folk roots

EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Whitney Houston’s voice permeated 1980s
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Chrysler ad hits home in Ohio
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
America’s pro-choice majority speaks out
DONALD KAUL p. 23
March of un-presidential primaries
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
Markets, banks and Germans

Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen


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