The Progressive POPULIST

A Twice-Monthly Journal from the Heartland
September 1, 2015 -- Volume 21, Number 15


TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER/Robert Reich p. 1
A revolt against the ruling class

EDITORIAL p. 2
Progressives must make our own media

JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Marijuana: criminalization to legalization to celebration;
Corporate crime supported by legal favoritism;
Banksters: a story of crime and punishment;
Congress: meet your poverty-wage food servers;
Don’t TPP on me
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Civilian militias’ gospel of desperation

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
GOP ignores all services in Planned Parenthood

DISPATCHES p. 5
Fox asks GOP candidates about messages from God, but not 7 topics;
Trump unbowed;
Dems set 6 debates;
New proof Obamacare is working;
CBO: Ending sequester cuts could create 1.4M jobs;
Sanders' racial justice platform wins praise from black activists;
Nurses endorse Bernie;
Keystone XL backer mulls NAFTA lawsuit;
St. Louis County puts reporter on trial;
Voter ID restrictions may have decided Texas congressional race...

FROMA HARROP p. 6
Fighting climate change for real
Tom Sanzillo p. 6
Powder River coal becoming ‘stranded asset’
JILL RICHARDSON p. 6
Hidden hand in obesity
GENE LYONS p. 7
Donald Trump: supervillain of the GOP
KATRINA VANDEN HUEVEL p. 7
Jon Stewart’s progressive legacy
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
Wisconsin’s economic cautionary tale
Donald McCarthy p. 8
Bernie opened a new path to presidency
JOHN YOUNG p. 8
I do hope that doggie’s for sale

BOB BURNETT p. 9
Hillary Clinton’s economic plan

ROGER BYBEE p. 9
Wisconsin sends public bucks to Bucks
BOB CESCA p. 10
The truth about Planned Parenthood
LEO GERARD p. 10
Oil corporations to export our security

MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
‘Attitude’ poisons bonds of police, community
DEAN BAKER p. 11
Bernie Sanders, serious route to global equality
SAM PIZZIGATI p. 11
A victory for CEO-worker pay disclosure
DAVID DAYEN p. 12
Don’t look now, but TPP just hit a major snag
BILL SCHER p. 12
Obama’s climate plan: is it good enough?
JOAN WALSH p. 13
Jeb Bush, worst candidate ever
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 13
Jim Crow lives

GENE NICHOL p. 13
‘Current Conditions’ and the voting rights act

JESSE JACKSON p. 14
The assault on the Voting Rights Act
WENONAH HAUTER p. 14
EPA’s fracking study explained
JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 14
The country of origin labeling war

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Annals of greed, continued

EMILY SCHWARTZ GRECO p. 15
Corporate greed or healthy babies
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Donald Trump’s disasters

WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Score two for Wall Street

JOHN BUELL p. 16
A modern Greek tragedy

JUAN COLE p. 17
Cringe-worthy GOP foreign policy moments
KEVIN MARTON, PHYLLIS BENNIS p. 17
Supporters of diplomacy must speak up
JOHN KIRIAKOU p. 17
The sentence they don’t tell you about
JOE CONASON p. 18
Which ‘senior official’ smeared Hillary?
TINA DUPUY p. 18
Trump, rising from the GOP’s ashes
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
GOP support tax evasion by starving IRS
TED RALL p. 19
Conservatism with a heart? It’s socialism
THOM HARTMAN N p. 20
Rebooting the American Dream
SETH SANDROSKY p. 20
Restaurant workers demand dignity now

PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel p. 20
Social Security is part of progressives’ legacy
ERIC BOELHLERT p. 21
Press protects Koch donors’ anonymity
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
The water in Rio is full of sludge
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
70 years after the bombs were dropped
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
‘So long, ladies,’ Says GOP
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Creeping out of the foxhole
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
Gov. Walker on public unions

Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen


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