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COVER/Jeff Sharlet p. 1
Sex, power and the ‘C Street’ Family
EDITORIAL p. 2
Stop corporate terrorism
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Look out! Circus has come to town; USDA perverts meaning of ‘organic’; Big Oil powers up in D.C.; Cato gets wonky; Why support corporations that don’t support us?
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Got mock?
DISPATCHES p. 5
‘Death panels’ already here; Satire impossible; ‘Teabaggers’ disrupt town-halls; ‘Deathers’ aren’t rocket scientists; Right smears health adviser; House will get single-payer vote ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
‘Ca-ching’ for Detroit
JIM GOODMAN p. 6
Agribusiness is the problem
JIM VAN DER POL p. 6
Farmers need strong unions, too
GENE LYONS p. 7
Beer summit’s over, back to real issues
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
The me-first, screw-everyone-else crowd
DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 7
Brain tumor ad just propaganda
DEAN BAKER p. 9
Stimulus works, give us more!
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 9
Opportunity cost of the bank bailout
MICHAEL I. NIMAN p. 10
Felony charge for cutting in line while black
GREG PALAST p. 10
The day the President turned black
ELLEN BROWN p. 11
How we can beat Wall St. at its own game
ROBERT BOROSAGE p. 12
Time to go all in for healthcare reform
JOE CONASON p. 13
Clinton derangement syndrome relapse
ROBERT REICH p. 13
Republicans won’t defeat healthcare reform
CARL POPE p. 14
Coal remains as malevolent as ever
JOHN NICHOLS p. 14
Dr. Kagen’s Rx for small-business ills
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Beer summit falls flat
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
America: fat, fatter, fattest
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Why Wyoming?
KENT PATERSON p. 15
Mexico’s showdown with democracy
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 16
Step up the fight for single-payer
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Compassionate conservative
HOLLY SKLAR p. 16
Minimum wage stuck in the 1950s
MARGIE BURNS p. 17
Declassify the Jose Padilla interrogations
MICHAEL SILVERSTEIN p. 17
Future of city finance on your windshield
AMERICAS/Roberto Rodriguez p. 18
Obama opposes yet sanctions profiling
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
‘A damned Murder Inc.’
JOHN BUELL p. 18
Jobs and our political future
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Purloining the property of the people
TED RALL p. 19
‘At will’ laws unproductive, barbaric
ROGER BYBEE p. 20
Media steer around worker roadkill
JOAN WALSH p. 20
More GOP crazy: ‘Town hells!’
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Rock’n’roll still has the riffs
POPULIST PICKS p. 21
Liberty in retreat
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
The reality of Michael Vick’s return
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Coup for White House lobby
GARRISON KEILLOR p. 22
The call of the highway (from a cell phone)
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Race always gets in the way
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
Recovery
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This page posted August 13, 2009