The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
December 1, 2013 -- Volume 19, Number 21


TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Michael Lind p. 1
The tea party is an anti-populist elite tool

EDITORIAL p. 2
Whose credibility gap?

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Say ‘no way’ to the NSA; Should there be a sanity test for Congress critters?; Subsidizing McDonald’s; Monsanto’s World Food Farce; Milk-carton campaign for ‘missing workers’
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 4
Kicking the poor to the curb

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Be concerned about food sovereignty

DISPATCHES p. 5
Dems: why not expand Social Security?; CBS botches Benghazi report; Dems gave Christie a pass; McAuliffe’s progressive campaign; JFK assassination: still unsolved ...

FROMA HARROP p. 6
California conquers its partisan chaos
ARI LEVAUX p. 6
Assault rifles: Not my weapon of choice
JILL RICHARDSON p. 6
Jack-o-lanterns illuminate luxury in our lives
GENE LYONS p. 7
Hard to run democracy with ignorant public
NORMAN SOLOMON p. 7
Why Snowden’s passport matters
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
Tax migration myth
BOB BURNETT p. 8
Politics of hate

JOHN YOUNG p. 9
That plastic outrage
DEAN BAKER p. 9
TPP: Trade agreement for protectionists
SAM CATHERMAN p. 9
Will Congress blow chance to propel green jobs?
ISAIAH J. POOLE p. 10
A better budget deal
JO COMERFORD p. 10
When government is too small
BRIAN BEUTLER p. 10
Huge victory for GOP’s ‘Whites-only’ coalition
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Imploding immigration reform is tea party’s goal
GENE NICHOL p. 11
Hapless Pat McCrory
DON ROLLINS p. 11
Duke Energy cashes in with no-nuke plan
BILL MOYERS & MICHAEL WINSHIP p. 12
Lies that will kill America
WILL DURST p. 12
Crashing, glitching bores
JOAN WALSH p. 13
The myth of Obama’s ‘incompetence’
WENDELL POTTER p. 13
Healthcare.gov mess a symptom of problems
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
GOP governors standing in hospital door
WENONAH HAUTER p. 14
Keep corporate poultry out of your house
MIKE LUX p. 14
The worst kind of government waste
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Low T: Disease, the gold mine

SAM URETSKY p. 15
Exceptional times

ROBERT REICH p. 15
Deep irony of GOP disapproval of Obamacare
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Stupid is as stupid does
JOHN BUELL p. 16
Political monsters, inner demons

DAVID BROCK p. 17
Hillary and Benghazi
MARK WEISBROT p. 17
Govts. should support Hondurans’ sovereignty
JOE CONASON p. 18
Will Christie juggernaut roll over Cruz and Paul?
TINA DUPUY p. 18
Tea party civics
ROBERT SCHEER p. 18
Congress owes Snowden a thank you
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Why the silence on Medicare for All?
TED RALL p. 19
May Palin’s stupid theory come true
JASON STANFORD p. 20
GOP: Women love jumping through hoops
SAM PIZZIGATI p. 20
Steer Rolls-Royce world onto a smoother road
BOOK REVIEW/Seth Sandronsky p. 20
Globalize this
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Finales don’t mean the end for actors

POPULIST PICKS p. 21
Chuck Berry; ‘Just Visiting’; ‘Masters of Sex’

EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Jock culture is rape culture
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Resistance to drone wars
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Crisis averted, but no reason to cheer
DONALD KAUL p. 23
This truce may not bring peace to Washington
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
No inflation redefined as income inequality

Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen


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