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COVER/Ray McGovern p. 1
Bowing to the police state
EDITORIAL p. 2
No hurry on immigration reform
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Keeping watch on you; Health care morality; Bush blows with the wind; Rick ‘The Slick’ Santorum; Remember Afghanistan; Granny peace brigade
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Summer reading
DISPATCHES p. 5
Rove hunt; More GOP seats in play; Wal-Mart increases poverty; Bush raises tax on teens; NSA stays probe-free ...
STAN COX p. 6
The lawn racket
GINA KNUDSON p. 6
Fishing ban makes us forget salmon
SHARON SALISBURY O’TOOLE p. 6
Wyoming town that never seems to die
GENE LYONS p. 7
Beware the dark-eyed stranger
CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs p. 7
Dems: lost in the political desert
KIM ZETTER p. 8
NSA is on the line — all of them
MARGIE BURNS p. 9
Surveillance, open borders, misdirection
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 10
Cracking the Hillary Code
PAUL WALDMAN p. 10
Democrats’ Dixie problem
WALTER SHAPIRO p. 11
Listening in on Hayden
JOHN NICHOLS p. 11
Bush team’s spying should jolt reporters
MOKHIBER & WEISSMAN p. 12
Ten worst corporations of 2005
DEAN BAKER p. 12
Welfare kings
SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL p. 13
GOP begins to implode
AMY TRAUB p. 13
Bush’s half measures on immigration
MUCKRAKER/Amanda G. Little p. 14
Gauge match
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Time to call Bush on lawbreaking
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Royalties in a democracy
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Disabling the disabled
DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 15
Citizenship fosters readership
JASON SALZMAN p. 16
Story of war at home wins Pulitzer
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 16
Cleaning up the mess
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Agony of immigration
RANDOLPH HOLHUT p. 17
Put rail service on the fast track
ROB RICHIE p. 17
Will Louisiana lead the nation?
AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez p. 18
What about ‘illegal’ don’t you understand?
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
Rosenthal’s ‘Times’
DAVID SIROTA p. 18
Court helps corporations fleece taxpayers
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Corporate socialism hurts students
TED RALL p. 19
Little Brother is watching you
JOHN BUELL p. 20
Democratizing telecommunications
JAMES O. CASTAGNERA p. 20
Oil crises are recurring phenomena
MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon p. 20
Corporate media, advocacy journalism
JOYCE MARCEL p. 21
Nothing new under the sun
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
West Winging away
BOOK/Alvena Bieri p. 21
Laboratory of democracy
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 21
Convictus
MOLLY IVINS p. 22
Wreckage of the Bush administration; Hookergate’s got it all; Developments of the Internet frontier
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Good intel: whatever boss wants to hear
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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