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COVER/Andrew Leonard p. 1
GOP to dismantle ‘Great Society’
EDITORIAL p. 2
Medicare held hostage; Keep up the fight
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Sacrificing teachers to Hoovernomics; Corporate tax dodging; Too unreasonable women; Disaster of two Ricks; Restarting money machine; Price of globalized paint
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/McMillen p. 5
Tea Party stands for corporations
DISPATCHES p. 5
Budget details slow to show; Budget cuts are popular; White House: Ryan budget D.O.A.; Scientists: Alt energy could replace fossils, nukes; US joins Third World ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Neocons slam midnight basketball
JIM GOODMAN p. 6
Korea-US pact makes big biz money
EMILENE OSTLIND p. 6
Mule deer decline but gas wells do fine
GENE LYONS p. 7
Michelle Rhee sells education snake oil
DON ROLLINS p. 7
Political nihilism: Democrats still matter
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
Military goes ‘Top Gun’ in Libya
ROBERT SCHEER p. 8
Peasants need pitchforks in ‘classless’ America
DEAN BAKER p. 9
Ryan’s budget shows GOP’s hand
ROBERT REICH p. 9
Frightening truth: Our fragile recovery
JIM WALLIS p. 9
Fasting for a humane budget
HAL CROWTHER p. 10
Out of Egypt, a half-step ahead of history
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 11
Social media jumpstart marketing revolution
IAN MILLHISER p. 12
Empire strikes back in Wisconsin court vote
DANNY SCHECHTER p. 12
Shutdown averted but economic war continues
SAM PIZZIGATI p. 13
Ghost from a ghastly GOP public policy past
CARL GIBSON p. 13
Corporations cheat on taxes in recession
RYAN ALEXANDER p. 13
Nuclear power rips off taxpayers
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Protesting from Memphis to Madison
JOHN BUELL p. 14
Labor discounted by Neo-Know-Nothings
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Health care dives down rabbit hole
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Pre-existing conditions for the rest of us
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Fascism on the American plan
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 16
At least Obama did better than George
ELLEN BROWN p. 17
Japan rebuilds with its own bank
M. O’MALLEY and M. BEGICH p. 17
Grassroots campaign founds NewDEAL
ALEXANDER COCKBURN p. 18
Libya war is bloody and terrible? Hardly
PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel p. 18
Good for biz, not always good for people
BILL JOHNSTON p. 19
Enough treason from South Carolina
RALPH NADER p. 19
Elizabeth Warren shakes up bankers
TED RALL p. 19
President Obama would fool us twice
JIM VAN DER POL p. 20
Competent consumers, not guns, secure liberty
FREDERIC ROLANDO p. 20
Postal service delivers six days a week
BOOK/Seth Sandronsky p. 20
Fault lines explored in Great Recession
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Most-trusted names in TV news are jokers
POP PICKS/Rob Patterson p. 21
Buddy gets jazzed
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Repossess the Mets and hand it over to fans
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Georgia, Supreme Court tinker with death
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
It’s your labor movement, too
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Detroit marks US decline
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
2012 Republican haiku
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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