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COVER/Paul Rosenberg p. 1
White power won’t give in
EDITORIAL p. 2
Throw out the oligarchs; Honest numbers
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
What we’ve paid for war in Afghanistan and Iraq; The lesson from Ferguson; The militarization of ‘Officer Friendly’; Rick Perry’s clown show; Lifting America up by raising the wage floor
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
John Seigenthaler, why we need more like him
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Dream is deferred a little longer
DISPATCHES p. 5
Republicans stop talking about O’care in campaign ads;
Medicaid resistance hurts hospitals;
GOP beats teabaggers—but can they win the Senate?;
Party of Lincoln takes aim at black voters;
McConnell makes big promises to big donors if GOP takes Senate;
Top GOP Senate candidates praise Koch network;
Burger King flees US taxes;
Free Press seeks to block Comcast takeover of Time Warner;
Medical marijuana answers prescription painkiller epidemic;
Texas courts says it's OK for bosses to lie to workers;
Christie loses billions to Wall Street fleecers;
Still waiting for Voting Rights reinstatement
...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Who cares what ideology drives high-speed train?
PETER LETHEBY p. 6
Nebraska loves its cattle a little too much
JILL RICHARDSON p. 6
No appetite for fixing school lunch
GENE LYONS p. 7
Media won’t wait until 2016 to lie about Hillary
E. GRECO and W. COLLINS p. 7
Solar power gets hot, hot, hot
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
Is corruption a constitutional right?
KEITH BOYKIN p. 8
Does Second Amendment only apply to whites?
BOB HERBERT p. 9
The fire this time
TIM DONOVAN p. 9
Darren Wilson’s defenders should think twice
ROGER BYBEE p. 10
Scott Walker’s offshoring flip-flop
DAVID DAYEN p. 10
Wall Street’s new scam
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Is police brutality on the rise? We need data
DEAN BAKER p. 11
Robert Rubin, Martin Feldstein discover bubbles
DAVE ZWEIFEL p. 11
Looking back, country will be ashamed
THOMAS FRANK p. 12
How to wreck the GOP in 3 easy steps
JOAN WALSH p. 13
Rand Paul’s foreign policy fraud
JAMES MOORE p. 13
Why Rick Perry will be convicted
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
A Ferguson near you
WENONAH HAUTER p. 14
Bureau of Land Management’s frackopoly
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 14
Stop leaving vacation time on the table
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Rich-poor newborn gap slowly closing
SAM URETSKY p. 15
The end of capitalism and return to feudalism
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 15
Obama may have to address inversion
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Corporations without borders
JOHN BUELL p. 16
Resisting corporate education
WENDELL POTTER p. 17
Why put up with Washington’s cynical game?
JIM VAN DER POL p. 17
Loss of a way of life creates desperation
JOE CONASON p. 18
Why Ferguson’s inferno is no surprise
ROBERT B. REICH p. 18
The disease of American democracy
THOM HARTMANN p. 18
Stop complaining about big government
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Hillary-the-hawk flies again
TED RALL p. 19
What should the US do about ISIS?
BILL JOHNSTON p. 20
The new people
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 20
Cities of opportunity?
JOHN YOUNG p. 20
Profitability and social responsibility
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
A remarkable Texas woman remembered
POPULIST PICKS p. 21
‘Iceberg Slim’; ‘Girls like us’; ‘Billionaire’s vinegar’
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Robin Williams and a moment of magic
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
The ghost of Dred Scott haunts Ferguson
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Ferguson: A failure of empathy
JASON STANFORD p. 23
US needs truth and reconciliation
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
Electing the law
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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