The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
April 1, 2005 -- Volume 11, Number 6
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Farhad Manjoo
Bush's bait and switch

EDITORIAL
Big Money wins again

JIM HIGHTOWER
Preaching democracy, drifting to autocracy; Serving corporate power; GOP's fake reporter; W's toothless 'oversight'; Bush's bubble; GOP porn peddlers

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Hard science hits confined livestock

DISPATCHES
US nixes W agenda; Still two Americas; GOP punishes working poor; Fat cats fight minimum wage hike; Truth about Greenspan ...

SCOTT BONTZ
Flight to nowhere

SALLY HERRIN
Enviros must work with farmers

GEORGE NAYLOR
Bush budget boons corporate, not rural

CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs
Monsanto menaces again

GENE LYONS
Dean: Good fighter for Democrats

SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL
Bush's recycled rhetoric

LOU DUBOSE
Slower growth likely

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Shutting down the spigot

JOEL D. JOSEPH
Compromise on Social Security possible

HOLLY SKLAR
Is this your ownership society?

ROB RICHIE & STEVEN HILL
Achieve 100% voter registration by'08

HAL CROWTHER
Doughface nation

COURTNEY MABEUS
Lobbyists battle over bankruptcy reform

MUCKRAKER/Amanda G. Little
Heavy-metal madness

JESSE JACKSON
Bush thanks big business

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Parallel universe that is Washington, D.C.

DAVE ZWEIFEL
Private accounts a bust in Nebraska

REV. ALLEN BRILL
Will love drive our fear?

MOKHIBER & WEISSMAN
10 ways to save a corporate criminal

WAYNE O'LEARY
Democracy, Mesopotamian-style

JOHN BUELL
Obesity, the New Prohibition

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
A tale of two leadership styles

AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez
' But we brought chicken'

ALEXANDER COCKBURN
HST: Better than Kerouac, not Abbey

NATHAN NEWMAN
Privatization and the new spoils system

PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader
Bush botches safety

TERESA CHAMBERS
Gag orders are the norm

JOHN NICHOLS
Free speech needs more defenders

JAMES J. MURTAUGH
Movie-inspired 'euthanasia' debate absurd

TED RALL
Two rights make a wrong

MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon
Ex-presidents as pitchmen

ROB PATTERSON
Child's play in the music industry

MOLLY IVINS
Bad bill made worse; Return of Swift Boat Vets; Horror stories

DONALD KAUL
Steroids reach the White House

POET/Michael Silverstein
The personal privacy poem


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