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COVER/Robert Reich p. 1
The truth about the American economy
EDITORIAL p. 2
Voodoo vs. Can-Do
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
There’s nothing merry about Old King Coal; Three wrongs don’t make Big Oil right; GOP shucking and jiving on Medicare; Sneaking plutocratic agenda into state law; ALEC’s legislative bawdy house
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
KATE COLARULLI p. 5
Big Oil’s free ride
DISPATCHES p. 5
Koch, oil speculators drive gas price increase; Nobel laureate not good enough for Fed; GOP: Mediscare no big deal; 14th Amendment solution to debt ‘crisis’; Mass. health reform popular, but not among GOP ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Playing chicken with full faith and credit
KAREN HANSEN-KUHN p. 6
Volatile agenda on agriculture
JODI PETERSON p. 6
Local food, local loans
GENE LYONS p. 7
GOP works the Big Debt lie
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
Cutting kids’ health digs deficit deeper
DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 7
Full-time legislature keeps lobbyists working
CHUCK COLLINS p. 8
Decade of magical tax-cut thinking
ROBERT BOROSAGE p. 9
Will Obama win the future and lose present?
ROBERT SCHEER p. 9
Geithner and Goldman, thick as thieves
HAL CROWTHER p. 10
The triumph of Osama bin Laden
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 11
Lessons from Woolf and squirrels
RANDOLPH T. HOLHUT p. 11
Will China overtake US? Not yet
DAVE JAMIESON p. 12
Grocery workers’ hunger strike over wages
DEAN BAKER p. 12
Bernie Sanders’ clear thinking on drugs
ROGER HICKEY p. 13
Reject bad advice—defend Medicare
BOB BURNETT p. 13
Republicans have a problem. So what?
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Love our veterans; bring them home
CARL POPE p. 14
Seven billion and who’s counting?
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 14
The problem with Medicare
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Food is the new enemy
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Cons manipulate language to gain power
CARL GIBSON p. 15
Tax holiday would cheat American taxpayers
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Canada sips the tea
JOHN BUELL p. 16
Born on the Fourth of July
GREG PALAST p. 17
Strauss-Kahn screws Africa
MARK WEISBROT p. 17
Deposed president returns to Honduras
B. BRALEY & W. CLARK p. 17
Breaking the oil addiction
ROGER BYBEE p. 18
Court blocks Walker’s anti-union bill
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
America’s top hypocrites
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Contract peonage
TED RALL p. 19
Dems and Repubs control political landscape
CURTIS ROOSEVELT p. 20
When we can’t count on banks or Congress
ANDREW LEONARD p. 20
Three lies about taxes
BOOK/Seth Sandronsky p. 20
US security and civil liberties
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Innovation the difference between good, great
POPULIST PICKS p. 21
Good sports
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Lance Armstrong survives ‘60 Minutes,’ feds
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Vermont, land of healthy firsts
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Humanity unfolds, one status update at a time
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Israel’s third-rail borders
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
Debt ceiling Limericks
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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