The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
May 1, 2014 -- Volume 20, Number 8


TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Calvin and Christian Exoo p. 1
Supreme Court out of control

EDITORIAL p. 2
GOP wrong again on Affordable Care Act

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Let’s refund America; ­­Mobsters of Wall Street; School lunches vs. fat cat dinners; Caterpillar crawls offshore to hide profits in tax haven; To start a movement, start moving!
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
GILLES STOCKTON p. 4
Not so fast on Trans Pacific trade pact

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Try a digital detox

DISPATCHES p. 5
‘Obamacare’ critics, including Kochs, accept subsidies; Money lines up against minimum wage hike; On high court, former lobbyist guts campaign reform; Red-state voters want to expand Medicaid; Fracking earthquakes ...

FROMA HARROP p. 6
Dems shouldn’t run away from Obamacare
KRISTA LANGLOIS p. 6
Farm bill, decline of Monarch butterflies
JILL RICHARDSON p. 6
The great American experiment
GENE LYONS p. 7
Seven million reasons not to repeal ACA
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 7
Them that’s got shall get

DAVID SIROTA p. 7
Labor market double standards
ROBERT B. REICH p. 9
Slouching toward oligarchy
ROBERT WEISSMAN p. 9
McCutcheon ruling
RICHARD LONG p. 9
Progressive caucus stacks budget against Ryan’s
BRIAN BEUTLER p. 10
It’s all over, Obamacare haters
ERIC BOEHLERT p. 10
From ‘doomed’ to boom
WENDELL POTTER p. 10
Bush health secretary supports Obamacare
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Fred Phelps was argument against his cause
DEAN BAKER p. 11
Obamacare lets you quit your job, keeps wages up
DAVID DAYEN p. 12
The next financial crisis: Leveraged loans
DON ROLLINS p. 12
CVS tobacco ban contributes to common good

JOAN WALSH p. 13
Blood on GOP’s hands
BOB BURNETT p. 13
Accelerating use of renewable energy

DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 13
No one hires vets like the postal service
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
End the NCAA’s plantation economics
WENONAH HAUTER p. 14
Factory farms are no chicken Shangri-La

NORMAN SOLOMON p. 14
When hope turns rancid: LBJ and Obama
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Scrooge, a tea party revision

SAM URETSKY p. 15
Social-net cuts endanger middle class

JOHN YOUNG p. 15
When every sperm is sacred
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
The GOP’s war on Medicaid

JOHN BUELL p. 16
Giving voice to climate silence
WILL DURST p. 16
The Frigid Fracas
EDWARD McCLELLAND p. 17
Communism saved the American worker
JOE CONASON p. 18
Clinton urges Dems to embrace health reform
TINA DUPUY p. 18
A truce in moral superiority
GENE NICHOL p. 18
A Tar Heel manifesto

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Volunteer fire departments
TED RALL p. 19
Suicide kills more in US than gun violence
MARJORIE ELIZABETH WOOD p. 19
Lobbying to sustain inequality
THOMAS FRANK p. 20
Plutocracy without end
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 20
Disputing education reform

ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Has SXSW grown out of control?
POPULIST PICKS p. 21
‘Chicago PD’; ‘Nebraska’; ‘Vice’

EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Northwestern football union, NCAA death spiral
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Humans are baking the planet
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Money won; now what?
JASON STANFORD p. 23
‘Education spring’
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
A deeply religious corporation

Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen


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