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COVER/Edwin Lyngar p. 1
A poor GOP die-hard leaves politics of shame
EDITORIAL p. 2
Let the kids in; Defund the gangs
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
History is calling; Lifting America up by raising the wage floor; Inversion perversion — A corporate tax loophole; Cargill’s GMO hypocrisy; Economists find creative solution to unemployment
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
SC town rallies behind gay police chief
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Stop subsidizing big ag
DISPATCHES p. 5
‘Typo’ probably won’t doom Obamacare; Predictions of premium spikes were wrong; 20M covered by O’care; Obama opens Eastern Seaboard to oil drillers ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Hippies under the bed
KYLE BOGGS p. 6
Water is life, or maybe it’s just for fun?
JILL RICHARDSON p. 6
Extreme nutrition
GENE LYONS p. 7
Why Obama makes GOP panic
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
Big money’s new friends, permanent interests
JOHN YOUNG p. 7
Health-care realities vs. free-market fantasies
PETER LUNENFELD p. 8
Ronald Reagan stuck it to the millennials
JOAN WALSH p. 9
Wingnuts’ anti-child disgrace
DEAN BAKER p. 9
Fun accounting and the export-import bank
MARTHA BURK p. 9
Women, Hobby Lobby and the GOP
ANDREW LEONARD p. 10
Rupert Murdoch’s plot for world domination
TIMOTHY KARR p. 10
Safeguarding free speech in the digital age
BOB BURNETT p. 10
Getting Democrats to vote
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Don’t politicize plight of kids at the border
GENE NICHOL p. 11
Harsh lessons for students
DIANA ANAHI TORRES-VALVERDE p. 11
Our broken immigration system
HAL CROWTHER p. 12
One nation under fire
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Apartheid Ave. two blocks from White House
RICHARD ESKOW p. 14
Are disabled Americans pawns in SS game?
WENONAH HAUTER p. 14
Hold politicians accountable
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Government’s war on the poor
SAM URETSKY p. 15
If Krugman is a disgrace, we need more of it
WENDELL POTTER p. 15
Obamacare attack ads backfired
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
School daze
JOHN BUELL p. 16
Fighting secular stagnation
ROBERT B. REICH p. 16
Limits of corporate citizenship
NORMAN SOLOMON p. 17
Does Uncle Sam have a god complex?
N. GUNASEKRAN p. 17
Asian media as big business
JOE CONASON p. 18
The GOP’s borderline behavior
TINA DUPUY p. 18
Immigrants and the cootie offense
ROBERT SCHEER p. 18
Citigroup: The original gangsta
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
The myths of big corporate capitalism
TED RALL p. 19
Blowback on the border
JAMES MOORE p. 20
Down where the river ends
MARK ANDERSON p. 20
When they were one party
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
A peal of trumpets for first-time writers
POPULIST PICKS p. 21
Alvins play Broonzy; Tower secrets; TriBeCaStan
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Why LeBron James was always coming back
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Long, hot march of climate change
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Romney strategy: use women to woo men
JASON STANFORD p. 23
Take the win in Iran
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
Yesterday’s presidential candidate
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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