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COVER/Aaron Kase p. 1
A public school system left behind
EDITORIAL p. 2
Stand up to bullies; First Amendment’s reach
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Militarizing America’s police forces; To understand news, connect headlines!; Corporate powers steamroll Florida voters; Getting ahead on the backs of others; Death of the lush, green lawn
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
The new food sovereignty prize emerges
DISPATCHES p. 5
Raising minimum wage is political goldmine; White working-class voters up for grabs; Ted Cruz — best NRSC vice chair Dems ever had; More states announce affordable insurance rates; Cons’ new health plan: E.R....
FROMA HARROP p. 6
If you drink, don’t enjoy it
JANINE BLAELOCH p. 6
Land trade should go nowhere
JILL RICHARDSON p. 6
Beefing up food safety
GENE LYONS p. 7
Rhetoric vs. reality for Republicans
TIMOTHY KARR p. 7
Your rights: Gone with a click
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
Applauding a former drug warrior’s contrition
DON ROLLINS p. 8
Florida tutoring under microscope
DEAN BAKER p. 9
The Sillicon Valley super Powerball lottery
JOHN YOUNG p. 9
It’s education, dummy, not ventriloquism
SAM STEIN p. 9
IRS ‘scandal’ fades
JOAN WALSH p. 10
For Ted Cruz, crazy is a family business
BOB BURNETT p. 10
Republicans and the Tea Party
JASON STANFORD p. 10
Ted Cruz for El Presidente!
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 11
The future of journalism
RANDOLPH T. HOLHUT p. 11
Billionaires will not save journalism
DAVID MORRIS p. 12
Tea Party vs. public library
RADLEY BALKO p. 12
Texas police hit organic farm with SWAT raid
ELLEN BROWN p. 13
Why Eliot Spitzer is Wall Street’s worst nightmare
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
The symphony of freedom is unfinished
WENONAH HAUTER p. 14
This isn’t the American way
ROBERT REICH p. 14
The loss of the public good
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
New derring-do for risk-takers
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Education reform: It’s complicated
WENDELL POTTER p. 15
Florida insurers are free to screw consumers
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Irreconcilable differences
JOHN BUELL p. 16
The ecology of transportation and democracy
ROBERT SCHEER p. 16
The US ended Iran’s experiment in democracy
MARK WEISBROT p. 17
Miranda rights: What Europe could learn
NORMAN SOLOMON p. 17
Assault on whistleblowers and war on Syria
JOE CONASON p. 18
What really makes Chelsea Clinton run
TINA DUPUY p. 18
The Creationist with an iPhone Paradox
RUY TEIXEIRA p. 18
GOP obstructionism could hand over Congress
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Paul Volcker’s latest hurrah
TED RALL p. 19
Right-wing liberals
RICHARD ESKOW p. 20
Cynicism is corporate America’s greatest weapon
BOOK REVIEW/Terence McDowell p. 20
Deciphering ‘The Fine Print’
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
A prayer for Pussy Riot
POPULIST PICKS p. 21
Gasland II; John D. Rockefeller; Harmony Game
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Knocked out by ‘The Trials of Muhammad Ali’
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Stop-and-frisk: The world according to Questlove
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
How stupid do they think we really are?
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Et tu, Buddhist?
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
Colorado dreaming
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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