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COVER/Joan Walsh p. 1
‘Populist’ Obama makes centrists nervous
EDITORIAL p. 2
War spreads to public education
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Citizens United gang takes over Washington; Mitt Romney’s gang of highway robbers; Mad Hatter of GOP’s Tea Party; J.R. Simplot’s two-headed trout; Worker taxes siphoned off by their bosses
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Kids need to learn about Big Ag
DISPATCHES p. 5
‘News’ reports aside, Social Security is strong; Momentum grows to overturn ‘Citizens’; Vatican seeks to rein in nuns, attacks Obama, but doesn’t like GOP budget either; ‘Cap and trade’ states grow faster while cutting pollution; Ron Paul backers take Iowa ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Why good factory jobs go begging
STEPHANIE PAIGE OGBURN p. 6
Sodbusters plow up the northern prairie
SAM PIZZIGATI p. 6
Inequality and the pothole nation
DON ROLLINS p. 7
Castro claims another exile in Miami
GENE LYONS p. 7
The ‘science’ on conservative thinking
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
The end of ‘shut up and play’
DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 8
Real thugs pick fights with unions
ROBERT REICH p. 8
Fairness is essential for economic growth
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 9
D.C. consensus leaves out income inequality
JASON LINKINS p. 9
Journalism sows Social Security confusion
ROGER BYBEE p. 10
Ask laid-off public workers why recovery feeble
DEAN BAKER p. 10
War on public sector workers
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 10
Crazy talk from ‘Motor City Madman’
STEVE KORNACKI p. 11
GOP beats Buffett rule
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 11
Military families need gratitude—and action
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 12
You’ve come a long way, Ben Bernanke
MARK ENGLER p. 12
Tax day doesn’t belong to the Tea Party
JOHN NICHOLS p. 13
A Lincoln/La Follette Republican
DANNY SCHECHTER p. 13
Another battle for Occupy’s soul
RAUL A. REYES p. 14
Rubio’s false promise
BOB BURNETT p. 14
Obama vs. Romney: class warfare
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
US youth under siege
ROBERT WEISSMAN p. 15
Corporate greed or healthy babies
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Digestive rumba
SAM URETSKY p. 15
What the wealthy dream of doing
JONATHAN BERNSTEIN p. 16
Is Obama no better than GOP?
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Fannie & Freddie: parable of privatization
ANDREW LEONARD p. 17
California withholds $90M student aid
MARK WEISBROT p. 17
Argentina’s critics get it wrong again
JOHN BUELL p. 17
The next crisis?
WILL DURST p. 18
Angrier birds
TINA DUPUY p. 18
The paradox of mobility in America
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
Farewell gastro-porn
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Sensationalist media miss the mark
TED RALL p. 19
Why are Americans killing more cops?
HEATHER SEGGEL p. 20
Cook’s tour of our food industry
MARK YZAGUIRRE p. 20
Texas Dems shouldn’t rely on Latino tide
BILL MOYERS and M. WINSHIP p. 20
I’m Big Bird and I don’t approve this message
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Marketing rules at music fest
POPULIST PICKS p. 21
‘Luck’ runs out
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Ozzie Guillen, free speech, Loretta Capeheart
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Long, hot march of climate change
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Romney strategy: use women to woo men
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Breathing while black
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
And then they come for you
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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This page posted April 26, 2012