The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
February 15, 2005 -- Volume 11, Number 3
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/David Corn
Fog of phony war

EDITORIAL
Dems need to rebrand

JIM HIGHTOWER
Leadership gap on trade; What's behind 'tort reform'; Jobs, mergers and you; Credit card nastiness; Whacking libraries; Glass houses of right-wing moralists

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Tsunamis hit prairies too

DISPATCHES
WTO fails to deliver; SSI privatizers fumble ...

MATT JENKINS
BLM sets up drive-through barbecue

THOMAS D. ROWLEY
Crying need for rural housing

DeETTE HUFFMAN
Make Arkansas River run true

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Never was heard a discouraging word

GENE LYONS
Getting the best of the hobgoblins

JOE CONASON
All the president's fantasies

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
More money for Iraq? Not so fast

JOHN NICHOLS
Congres shirked its duty on Ohio vote

GLORIA A. TOTTEN
Building the next Paul Wellstone

NATHAN NEWMAN
Evolution and cultural backlash

MARK WEISBROT
Who wants to cut Social Security benefits?

STEVEN WOLFSON
New tax cuts Social Security

DAVE ZWEIFEL
Social Security's 'Socialism' Saved Many

SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL
Regime change starts with Social Security

ARVONNE FRASER
Social Security not just for retirees

BRIAN GILMORE
Blacks would lose in Bush plan

WAYNE O'LEARY
Ripping up the third rail

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Crisis? What crisis?

MUCKRAKER/Amanda G. Little
Rightward lurch

MOKHIBER & WEISSMAN
Kennedy on Fascist US

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Valentine's Day prescription

SAM URETSKY
Medicaid savings result in costs

PHIL TAJITSU NASH
Questions surround vote ... again

JOHN BUELL
Reflections on global catastrophe

MARGIE BURNS
Reducing complexity in tax code

EDITORIAL/Capital Times
Grand words, empty words

MARA VOUKYDIS
What would MLK do?

JESSE JACKSON
King's dream abandoned

HOLLY SKLAR
Dreaming of decent wages

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
Reconstructing inequality

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Will America quit Iraq?

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Bush's bigotry against justice

TED RALL
Legal, safe and common

KENT PATERSON
Yet another turning point in Mexico vote

REV. ALLEN BRILL
Why keep salt in the shaker?

SAM SMITH
On the west side of the Capitol

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Shadows of losers

MARTY JEZER
Question assumptions

BOOKS/Danila Oder
Stormy weather

MOLLY IVINS
Henhouses overstaffed with foxes ...

DONALD KAUL
Does this AG reflect America?

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