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COVER/Michael Lind p. 1
Southern poverty pimps
EDITORIAL p. 2
The debt alarm sham
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Do more than minimum on minimum wage; Moral poverty of North Carolina’s GOP Legislature; Just say ‘no-no’ to nanos; Silicon Valley’s latest speculative bubble; In battling corporate greed, tenacity matters.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Arrest climate change, not protesters
DISPATCHES p. 5
‘Sequester’ cuts come into focus; Public doesn’t like cuts; Cal Tech physicist calls out feds for blocking marijuana research; GOP proceeds with vote rigging schemes; Vote rigger gets challenger; Dems face tough Senate races in ’14 ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Republicans plagued by good news
BEN LONG p. 6
Sally Jewell and the adventure of a lifetime
JILL RICHARDSON p. 6
Another side of the immigration debate
GENE LYONS p. 7
Fleecing the yokels
MICHAEL BRUNE p. 7
It’s time to move forward on climate
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
The blind theology of militarism
DEAN BAKER p. 8
Who decided workers should fall behind?
ROBERT REICH p. 9
Minimum wage and meaning of decent society
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 9
Minimum wage should be a living wage
DON ROLLINS p. 9
Peace Corps undergoing power struggles
ROBERT SCHEER p. 10
Senate Republicans stand against public
WENDELL POTTER p. 10
Obama’s ‘scheme’ won’t end the world
JOHN YOUNG p. 10
Casting call: America’s next Joe McCarthy
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 11
Millennials leading the stress parade
RANDOLPH T. HOLHUT p. 11
How to bring equity back to our economy
JASON STANFORD p. 11
Shakespeare in the Senate
ROBERT BOROSAGE p. 12
The wrecking crew is winning
LUKE JOHNSON p. 12
Warren’s questioning angers Wall Street
HARRY BOYTE p. 13
Higher ed and citizen-centered democracy
BOB BURNETT p. 13
Obama 2013: In your face
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
A time to resist
WENONAH HAUTER p. 14
With fracking, Cuomo’s future hangs in balance
JONATHAN BERNSTEIN p. 14
Hagel’s bad? Just wait for Supreme Court
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
The mark of C, for crazy
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Science heads toward truth
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 15
Democratic education reformers
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Waiting for Hillary
JOHN BUELL p. 16
The taming of economic liberalism
NORMAN SOLOMON p. 17
Endless war: Becoming ‘the evil that we deplore’
WILL DURST p. 17
The red rebs
D.H. KERBY p. 17
Secrecy becomes an enemy of the people
JOE CONASON p. 18
‘Hip’ young Republicans can’t change their party
TINA DUPUY p. 18
Welcome to the golden age of arms dealing
MARK ANDERSON p. 18
Michigan pig farmer seeks to rise above edicts
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
April: show up to catch up with 1968
TED RALL p. 19
Will the next 9/11 arrive via drone?
MARK DATEMA LIPSCOMB p. 20
Teaching Latin and the Second Amendment
ERIC BOEHLERT p. 20
What a lapdog press really looks like
POPULIST PICKS p. 21
‘Rebirth’ by Jimmy Cliff; ‘Go On’; ‘Baby Peggy: The Elephant in the Room’
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
More movies appeal to adults
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Citizen Mike: Michael Jordan at 50
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Israel, Palestine and the Oscars
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Many Catholic women refuse notion of never
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Bulwark of ignorance
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
The federal budget poem
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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