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COVER/Sid Blumenthal p. 1
Imperial presidency crushed
EDITORIAL p. 2
Sic semper tyrannis; Dump party pooper
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Epidemic infects Dems; Bush’s windfall for drug makers; Bush’s constant war cry; Ignoring news of people; War numbers; Axing our national parks.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
JIM KLEINSCHMIDT & MARK SMITH p. 5
Make biofuels profit farmers, not agbiz
DISPATCHES p. 5
Elections shape up; Arizona gets voter-verified elections; Social Security privatizers bide their time; More trade deals ...
MATT SINGER p. 6
Overpaying for jobs
JULIA OLMSTEAD p. 6
Biofuel illusion
LINDA M. HASSELSTROM p. 6
Good news about garbage
GENE LYONS p. 7
NYT’s maligned exposé revealed little
CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs p. 7
Revisit progressive reforms
ANYA KAMENETZ p. 9
Beyond college debt
DEAN BAKER p. 9
Can progressives do arithmetic?
ANDREW GREELEY p. 9
Cheney really wants US dictator
JOSEPH RICHEY p. 10
Border for sale
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 11
‘Times’s true loyalties lie with public
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 11
No freedoms without a free press
BILL QUIGLEY p. 12
Gutting New Orleans
MARK WEISBROT p. 12
Fed on thin ice as housing bubble weakens
JOE CONASON p. 13
Reckless Bush threatens Social Security again
STEWART ACUFF & S. FRIEDMAN p. 13
Lawless workplaces
MUCKRAKER/Amanda G. Little p. 14
Ag reflex
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
To defend freedom, defend voting rights
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Battle of S 1955
LAURA CARLSEN p. 15
Start over on immigration
RYAN O’DONNEL p. 15
Lost: true majority
DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 16
A nation of spoiled, extravagant deadbeats
JOHN BUELL p. 16
Sweat-free procurement
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Games the GOP plays
MARK ENGLER p. 17
Mexico’s democratic transition incomplete
GREG PALAST & M. PASCARELLA p. 17
Stealing it right in front of your eyes
ART CULLEN p. 17
Patriot in any language
AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez p. 18
‘We are farmers, not gardeners’
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
War in Iraq a dreadful mistake
MOKHIBER & WEISSMAN p. 18
Ralph’s ‘criminal’ grocery
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Corporate demons
TED RALL p. 19
Planting the seeds of disaster
NATHAN NEWMAN p. 20
Ulysses Grant: our greatest president?
MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon p. 20
Do Founding Fathers benefit from media bias?
JOYCE MARCEL p. 20
Where’s Jesus when you need Him?
BOOKS/Roger Bybee p. 21
Chomsky’s ‘Failed States’ exposes Bushocracy
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Law + order = progress
MOLLY IVINS p. 22
Prejudice and apple pie; Justice, fairness and flipping; Try a slingshot.
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Conserving wetlands doesn’t interest cons
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
Bummer summer
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