Sunday, January 15, 2012

Selections from the February 1, 2012 issue

COVER/Matt Duss
Neocon hawks learned nothing from Iraq

EDITORIAL
Fear strikes home


LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Support your local dairy

DISPATCHES
Romney leads flight south;
Romney twists job creation stats;
Mitt’s mendacity monitored;
Huckabee chides GOP Obamania;
Santorum’s most outrageous statements;
Medicare still more efficient than private insurance;
Boeing reneges on Kansas jobs in tanker deal;
Romney tax plan hits working poor, middle class;
What if Republicans sweep?;
Some rights for detainees in defense bill;
GOP presidential tax plans favor richest 1%;
Heating assistance cut in time for winter;
Wall Street helps Scott Brown raise funds against Warren;
'Progressive' label OK with Americans;
Ariz. city candidate faces English test;
Alternate party status ...


JIM GOODMAN
Occupy should target food system


DON ROLLINS
End of Iraq reminiscent of Vietnam


ROBERT WEISSMAN
‘Citizens United’ downs Newt, and us

MARK ENGLER
Occupy movement rebels on Internet


SAM URETSKY
Repubs court Jewish vote with little success

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Contraception vs. laissez-faire economics


JOHN BUELL
1% market fake American dream

WAYNE O’LEARY
The uses and misuses of history


N. GUNASEKARAN
Women fill lesser roles in Asian businesses


JIM VAN DER POL
Honesty in short supply in Washington

BOB BURNETT
Recounting best and worst of 2011 politics

ROB PATTERSON
Good movies buried by Hollywood machine

POPULIST PICKS
Hipsters try to make it in Manhattan

and more ...