The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
August 15, 2012 -- Volume 18, Number 14


TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Sara Robinson p. 1
The New Corporate Totalitarianism

EDITORIAL p. 2
No time for gun reform

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Consider the GOP’s health care plan; Hidden ugliness behind Romney’s gleaming smile; Who needs Wall Street giants?; Checking out corporate come-ons; Turning college students into free-market chattel
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Third parties win by losing

DISPATCHES p. 5
Why gun control is a non-starter; Flipping Wisconsin Senate mattered; Progs’ ‘Deal for All’ ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
The worst financial scandal yet?
ERIC WAGNER p. 6
Balancing fish and farms on an estuary
RYAN ALEXANDER p. 6
Drinking MOX-Laced lemonade
GENE LYONS p. 7
Romney finally has to explain
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
New standard for oxymoronicnewspeak
WILL DURST p. 7
The care less party
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 9
An eminently bad idea
DEAN BAKER p. 9
Righting underwater mortgages
JOAN WALSH p. 10
What’s hiding in Mitt’s taxes?
RANDOLPH T. HOLHUT p. 10
Making higher education available to all

DON ROLLINS p. 10
We still don’t know how to talk about sex

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 11
Citizens must unite to end Citizens United

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 11
Obama, Romney must tell compelling stories
ANDREW LEONARD p. 11
Norquist jumps the shark
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 12
Time for ‘banksters’ to be prosecuted
LEO W. GERARD p. 12
Casper the ghost can’t control Wall Street
BILL MOYERS and M. WINSHIP p. 13
Presto! The DISCLOSE Act disappears
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
The truth about Obama’s tax proposal
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Protect voting rights, don’t reject them
WENONAH HAUTER p. 14
ExxonMobil CEO rants against planet

BOB BURNETT p. 14
Mitt Romney: No there there

SAM URETSKY p. 15
Geezers vs. the real entitled

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Costing out the freedom to be stupid

MITCHELL ZIMMERMAN p. 15
‘Freedom’ to refuse health insurance
ART CULLEN p. 16
Why do we do this?

JOHN BUELL p. 16
Scorching weather and complacent media

WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
False Equivalence

N. GUNASEKARAN p. 17
Neolibs devastate Indian higher education

JOEL JOSEPH p. 17
We can make Olympic uniforms in the US

ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
The end of America’s armies
ROBERTO RODRIGUEZ p. 18
The face of ‘reasonable suspicion’
TINA DUPUY p. 18
Olympians represent best of our team efforts
RALPH NADER p. 19
Jolting the mind for action
TED RALL p. 19
Occupy Wall Street:?what comes next?
JIM CULLEN p. 20
Portable ’net players offer progressive lifeline

HEATHER SEGGEL p. 20
Lizz free or die

ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Out of sight

POPULIST PICKS p. 21
Real country music
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Don’t abolish Penn State football
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Pain in Spain falls mainly on plain (folk)
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
One American, one vote, every time
DONALD KAUL p. 23
The war on soda pop
SCOTT KEYES & ADAM PECK p. 23
Brands bankrolling right-wing attack ads
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
Save the banks??Why do we bother?

Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen


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