The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
May 15, 2013 -- Volume 19, Number 9


TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/James Moore p. 1
Atlas has shrugged: West, Texas

EDITORIAL p. 2
Treat terrorists like common criminals

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Saving our ravaged planet ... and ourselves; Putting your neck on the line; Exxon covered in praise as it covers Mayflower in oil; Gagging on ag-gag laws; Sen. Sanders makes sense on Social Security
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR; LETTER FROM THE DEVIL p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Look out: Corporations promote ‘right to farm’

DISPATCHES p. 5
GOP refuses to negotiate on budget; Flight delays get Republicans’ attention; Baucus retirement raises progressive hopes; Perry still touts Texas’ lack of regulation ...

FROMA HARROP p. 6
Immigration fix for real
ARI LEVAUX p. 6
Roadkill: It’s what’s for dinner
AMY DEAN p. 6
Left and right agree: Time to break up banks
GENE LYONS p. 7
Barack Obama negotiates with himself
JOHN YOUNG p. 7
Pot and crime
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
The value of silence
ALEX PAREENE p. 8
Whoops! Turns out debt doesn’t ruin economies
DEAN BAKER p. 8
Corporate governance and CEO pay
RANDOLPH T. HOLHUT p. 9
Time for Congress to focus on jobs and growth
JASON STANFORD p. 9
National backlash against test-crazed education
BOB BURNETT p. 9
The future is coming: What’s the US plan?

DAVID DAYEN p. 10
The Fed messed with the wrong senator
TED KAUFMAN p. 10
Obama’s big bank opportunity
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 11
The job crisis: Broken news
WENDELL POTTER p. 11
CEO pay, not premium rates, should outrage
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 12
Tortured debate

DAN FROOMKIN p. 12
New torture report blames Obama, media
JOAN WALSH p. 13
The education of Joe Manchin
ROBERT REICH p. 13
Where democracy works and where it doesn’t
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Baptist church victims deserve reparations
WENONAH HAUTER p. 14
Corporate ownership of our natural resources
JOSEPH B. ATKINS p. 14
By the handful

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Medicaid expansion

SAM URETSKY p. 15
All that glitters isn’t a good investment
MICHAEL BRUNE p. 15
ExxonMobil’s Mayflower mess
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Labor’s orphans in the storm

JOHN BUELL p. 16
Capitalism’s moral blinders

MARK WEISBROT p. 17
Maduro wins narrowly on Chávez record
NORMAN SOLOMON p. 17
Orwellian warfare state of carnage, doublethink
JOE CONASON p. 18
What Margaret Thatcher meant to the world
TINA DUPUY p. 18
Illegal abortion and ‘The Way of the World’
RAUL REYES p. 18
Nixing the I-word
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Minimum wage needs an upgrade
TED RALL p. 19
Lose your house, collect $300
ANDREW O’HEHIR p. 20
Boston exposes dark post-9/11 bargain
ERIC BOEHLERT p. 20
Boston and right-wing media collapse
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
‘Zero Dark Thirty’: Controversial film

POPULIST PICKS p. 21
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
The Boston Marathon: All my tears. All my love.
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Peace activists and patriots at Boston bombing
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
In praise of oh-so-human journalists
DONALD KAUL p. 23
No progress on gun control to report
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
Unbalanced beltway budgeting

Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen


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