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COVER/Thomas Frank p. 1
The conservative plan is sabotage
EDITORIAL p. 2
GOP: Saboteurs or morons?
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Trans-Pacific Partnership: A corporate coup in disguise; Tilling our public treasury; Fining banks won’t stop banksters; Slapping the poor just for the hell of it; Ryan rants, and a new voice of morality responds
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Benefits of a conversation
DISPATCHES p. 5
Federal budget crisis was carefully planned;
Millions of poor left uncovered by state health plans;
Disability advocates denounce ‘60 Minutes’ report;
Banks mistakenly break into homes;
Farm bill still going nowhere ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
The sports cable rip-off
ERIC BALKEN p. 6
A world beneath Lake Powell is resurrected
JILL RICHARDSON p. 6
Junking food is bad for everyone
GENE LYONS p. 7
Constitutional coup
ROBERT REICH p. 7
Washington bullies
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
Fessing up to our imperial footprint
JIM GOODMAN p. 9
Trans Pacific Partnership is win for corporations
DEAN BAKER p. 9
Debt default: Only way to get full employment?
DON ROLLINS p. 9
Religion and the poverty breach
WENDELL POTTER p. 10
D-Day for health insurers
JOHN YOUNG p. 10
Why this law scares them so
BERNIE SANDERS p. 10
Health care for all
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 11
Are you living your eulogy or your resume?
JASON STANFORD p. 11
Learning to love Ted Cruz
NORMAN SOLOMON p. 11
NSA deserves a permanent shutdown
EDWARD McCLELLAND p. 12
RIP, Middle Class: 1946-2013
MIKE LUX p. 13
Populism vs. Nihilism
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Real lesson of ‘Green Eggs and Ham’
WENONAH HAUTER p. 14
Taking stock of factory farm pollution
JOSH EIDELSON p. 14
GOP’s newest target: US Postal Service
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
COBRA: Adios
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Putting a value on an education
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 15
This magic moment
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Maine’s bad-boy governor
JOHN BUELL p. 16
Changing the political climate
ROGER BYBEE p. 17
How lack of oversight doomed Lac-Megantic
ANDREW LEONARD p. 17
Bitcoin Libertarian disaster: Silk Road busted
JOE CONASON p. 18
Media reverts to gossip about the Clintons
TINA DUPUY p. 18
Obamacare and my family
ROBERT SCHEER p. 18
Leakers will never face prosecution
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
‘Mad dogs’ render the powerful powerless
TED RALL p. 19
Paul: America’s leading liberal
JOAN WALSH p. 20
50 years of GOP race-baiting led to shutdown
BOOK REVIEW/Seth Sandronsky p. 20
Farm labor struggles
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
You have to get past an artist’s personality
POPULIST PICKS p. 21
Johnny Carson; Marshall Chapman; Tim O’Brien
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Who is the Walter White of the sports world?
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Combating global warming
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Cleveland wins
DONALD KAUL p. 23
All their fault
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
Say not this Congress will last forever
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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