Selections from the February 1, 2015 issue

COVER/Roger Hickey and Elizabeth Warren
Populist agenda — in Elizabeth Warren’s words 

EDITORIAL
Congress heads for trouble; College affordability

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

DON ROLLINS
Happy New Year, ye fellow sinners

EMILY SCHWARTZ GRECO
Tilting at turbines

DISPATCHES
Dems push populist tax plans;
Lame-duck ‘Cromnibus’ showed bipartisan splits;
What Dems got out of the 'Cromnibus';
Repubs aim to repeal immigration orders;
Boxer retirement shakes up Cal politics;
Postal Service cuts deliverty standards;
New rule streamlines union elections;
House votes to gut financial reforms;
Warren, progressives sink Obama Treasury nominee;
Legislators look at increasing wages;
Bad bills stand out as Congress debuts;
Wind generates 98% of Scot home power ...

MICHAEL LUX
2015: A year of opportunity for progressives

JIM VAN DER POL
Ferguson another divide-and-conquer episode

WENONAH HAUTER
New Congress, more problems

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
The Medicaid gap: A variation on Jim Crow

SAM URETSKY
A shining citizen on the hill passes

WAYNE O’LEARY
The deliberate stupidity of austerity

JOHN BUELL
Race, class and police militarization

N. GUNASEKARAN
Privatization drives in Asia; brisk, but brutal

STEPHANIE HILLER
Non-nuclear nations take lead at conference
MARK ANDERSON
IRS faulted for scrutinizing right-wing ‘nonprofit’

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Myth of post-racial America

BOOK REVIEW/Seth Sandronsky
Climate justice movements

ROB PATTERSON
Hail the mayor of MacDougal Street

POPULIST PICKS
It’s a mystery

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