The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
April 15, 2014 -- Volume 20, Number 7


TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Roger Hickey p. 1
The populist movement to restore democracy

EDITORIAL p. 2
Don’t skimp on climate

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Finding populism; Symbolism of one adjunct professor’s death; In death, Margaret Mary reaches out to the Pope; Spreading plague of antibacterial products; Mendacity of GMO purveyors
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Reuben Askew remembered

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Sustainable, responsible investing

DISPATCHES p. 5
Working mother dies of medical neglect in Fla.; Voters should know who’s holding up their health care; Dems push back on Senate forecast; Quarter of Miss. struggles for food ...

FROMA HARROP p. 6
The impossible case of Sandoval-Perez
PETER LAUFER p. 6
The tortoise is collateral damage in desert
JILL RICHARDSON p. 6
Cry a river over California’s drought
GENE LYONS p. 7
Paul Ryan misrepresents his Irish roots
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
Do companies have a right to track you?
JASON STANFORD p. 7
Equal pay and awkward pauses
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 10
Fixing the healthcare fix

WENDELL POTTER p. 10
Channeling Marie Antoinette
RYAN ALEXANDER p. 10
Highway robbery
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Congress hard at work at nothing at all
ROBERT BOROSAGE p. 11
Plutocrats take to the barricades
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 11
California crimes and punishments

MICHAEL LIND p. 12
Paul Ryan’s nightmare: The way to cut poverty
DEAN BAKER p. 12
Money in hyping the generational war story
JOAN WALSH p. 13
The stunning dishonesty of Charles Murray
WILL DURST p. 13
50 shades of cool
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
What Professor Barack Obama taught us
DAVID DAYEN p. 14
Apple, Google, high-tech bosses scamming US
WENONAH HAUTER p. 14
Natural gas is not geopolitical bargaining chip
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Springtime optimism

SAM URETSKY p. 15
Nothing to fear but trigger-happy gunmen

ROBERT B. REICH p. 15
The ‘you’re paid what you’re worth’ myth
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Toward world government, ready or not

JOHN BUELL p. 16
Whither the US welfare state?

JAMES MOORE p. 17
Here in the third world
RANDOLPH T. HOLHUT p. 17
Could Ukraine crisis spark global resource war?
ROBERT SCHEER p. 18
Feinstein vs. the CIA: A moment of truth
TINA DUPUY p. 18
The diminishment of religious persecution
BOB BURNETT p. 18
The war on democracy: The deep state
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
What Wall Street owes Americans
TED RALL p. 19
Is it any wonder that students turn to porn?
GENE NICHOL p. 20
Arizona, Catholics and freedom of religion
BILL JOHNSTON p. 20
Unions need to know workers to organize them
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Grace in the music business

POPULIST PICKS p. 21
Nashville 2.0; Bakersfield; Titanic’s Final Mystery
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
The NCAA’s house divided will not stand
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
US sailors allege radiation sickness
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Ohio GOP attempts to fix elections
JOHN YOUNG p. 23
One anecdote is all it takes
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
Bernie Sanders for president

Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen


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