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COVER/Dennis Bernstein p. 1
Who goes to jail? BP CEO or shrimper?
EDITORIAL p. 2
Deficit bamboozle; Wall St. fight goes on
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Create jobs, rebuild USA; Wimpy leaders ignore strong people; Return of Katrina trailers; Corporate reality of Carly and Meg; Dell’s deceptive ‘genius’
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Get to work, kids
DISPATCHES p. 5
GOP blasts Dems for sticking to GOP plan; Cost of post-9/11 wars tops $1T; More spooks, less results; Mass. health plan working; Tea Party motivated but not populist ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Democrats can avoid rout — it’s up to them
BEN LILLISTON p. 6
The war on antibiotics
JUDITH LEWIS MERNIT p. 6
He who buys the most names wins
GENE LYONS p. 7
Washington Post joins the Tea Party
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
Low taxes worsen slump
DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 7
Why would we give them back the keys?
MARK MANSPERGER p. 8
Drill Baby Drill and other disasters
MICHAEL BRUNE p. 8
After the BP oil disaster
DEAN BAKER p. 9
Treat reckless corporation like drunk driver
JOHN NICHOLS p. 9
Wall St. reform socialist? Socialists laugh
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 10
Our broken politics on full display
JOE CONASON p. 10
Obama talks green jobs with Clinton (finally)
PETER SHELTON p. 10
Monkey wrenchers keep on keeping on
JIM VAN DER POL p. 11
Farmers need fair prices more than broadband
ROGER BYBEE p. 11
Obama’s free trade embrace subverts democracy
CHRISTY CORP-MINAMIJI p. 12
Caught by the foreclosure crisis
ROBERT BOROSAGE p. 13
Who gets us out of the hole we are in?
ANDREW LEONARD p. 13
Why won’t the Fed come to the rescue?
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Congress needs to hear about the pain
JOHN BUELL p. 14
Fiscal policy, culture wars
ALICE SLATER p. 14
Let’s shelve new nuclear power initiatives
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Chinese drugs
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Ghost writers in the medical spin cycle
D.H. KERBY p. 15
Blowback threatens Wikileaks
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
BP and the perils of privatization
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 16
Be bold, be progressive
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 16
Move your big money
JOEL BRINKLEY p. 17
The real reason Afghanistan is a lost cause
N. GUNASEKARAN p. 17
Outrage against corporate anarchy in Bhopal
AMERICAS/Roberto Rodriguez p. 18
Crack law by any other name
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
The fall of Obama
BILL JOHNSTON p. 18
Why I’m not a Republican
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
2010 summer reading list
TED RALL p. 19
Help is not on the way
ROBERT REICH p. 20
Vanishing consumer, coming trade war
BOOK/Seth Sandronsky p. 20
North Star
DON ROLLINS p. 20
Baseball has been very good to me
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Play guitar, go to jail
POPULIST PICKS p. 21
Cable is home for quality TV
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Steinbrenner: bridge from baseball’s past to future
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
6 months after Haiti’s earthquake
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
LeBron gone, Cleveland still standing
DONALD KAUL p. 23
No drama, not even angry
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
Guns & butter = penury
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