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COVER/Walter Shapiro p. 1
DeLay exterminated by greed
EDITORIAL p. 2
Immigrants come home
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Replace the reformers; Ashcroft resurfaces; Corporate Pentagon; Cookies into armor; For love of nature; Stealing local authority
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Nurture thought
DISPATCHES p. 5
Dems fill House races; Progressive Dems on tap; DeLay thugs wreck event; Radio ’winger urges shooting migrants; Immigration numbers; E-vote bigger risk than slots ...
JOHN E. PECK p. 6
Biotech crops hurt farmers, worsen energy
CHARLES BURCH p. 6
Get serious about hydrogen
PAUL LARMER p. 6
Thank you, Gale Norton
GENE LYONS p. 7
No news good enough for right wingers
CALAMITY HOWLER/A.V. Krebs p. 7
Cattle futures in Hillary’s past
ROBERT L. BOROSAGE p. 8
The Hammer is nailed
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 8
John McCain’s Faustian bargain
JOHN NICHOLS p. 9
Bush tosses Bill of Rights
HOLLY SKLAR p. 9
Wanted: A high-road economy
EARL OFARI HUTCHINSON p. 10
Old civil rights groups MIA on new rights
JOHN BUELL p. 10
Scapegoating immigrants
JEFF FAUX p. 10
Deal with Mexico
STEWART ACUFF p. 11
Globalization and US labor
LABOR TALK/Harry Kelber p. 11
Labor split over immigration reform
HAL CROWTHER p. 12
Fatal balance: Ice Age on the newsroom
JOE CONASON p. 13
The lie Bush can’t spin
MUCKRAKER/Amanda G. Little p. 14
Better Escalade than never
JANE SLAUGHTER p. 14
Getting labor off the defensive
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Clawback time
LEE GUELFF p. 15
California ‘health care’ dreaming
JESSE JACKSON p. 15
Wage war on poverty, not immigrants
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Free trade agonistes
DAVID SIROTA p. 16
Wall Street Dems undermine progressives
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 16
Feingold’s brave stance
N. GUNASEKARAN p. 17
Is Asia falling out of empire’s orbit
MARK WEISBROT p. 17
French labor ‘reform’ unsupported by facts
AMERICAS/Gonzales & Rodriguez p. 18
Remedies for the movement
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
Narrow the degrees of separation
GREG PALAST p. 18
No more cheap oil, says Chavez
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Impeachment is too good
TED RALL p. 19
Laissez-faire liberation
SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL p. 20
Bush’s Card trick
MOKHIBER & WEISSMAN p. 20
Two anchors
MEDIA BEAT/Norman Solomon p. 21
When war crimes are impossible
BOOKS/Alvena Bieri p. 21
Take it back
MOLLY IVINS p. 22
Not kicking him when he’s down; Immigration 101; Death of newspapers?
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Oil discovered on Capitol Hill
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 21
Lacking the knack in Iraq
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