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COVER/David J. Krajicek p. 1
Birth of a prison state
EDITORIAL p. 2
Obamacare assassins destroy people’s lives
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
The scandal in Dennis Hastert’s life;
Far from ‘liberalizing’ global policies, TPP is corporatizing them;
Banksters: a story of crime and punishment;
Doug Hughes: protecting democracy from plutocrats;
Feingold to Snowden to Paul: Curtailing USA Patriot Act
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Spain makes amends, and so should we
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Support farmers, not agribusiness
DISPATCHES p. 5
State GOP leaders thwart O’care;
OT rule change could hike wages;
Walmart sees benefits from higher wages;
Senate map poses challenge for GOP;
Top 50 price-gouging hospitals;
Nebraska gov. wants to kill prisoners anyway;
Republicans attack net neutrality;
Obama readies climate change push;
GOP sens vote to block EPA clean water rule;
Liberals more popular in 2015;
G.W. Bush also makes big bucks from speeches;
Sanders strong in Wis. straw poll;
Senate leader says Obama gets no more appeals judges;
La. Repubs wish they'd neer heard of Grover Norquist
...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Sloppiness won’t doom the health reforms
BRENDON ROCKEY p. 6
A rocket scientist saved my farm
JILL RICHARDSON p. 6
The high cost of low taxes
GENE LYONS p. 7
Hillary Clinton’s real primary opponent
JILL LAWRENCE p. 7
Scott Walker, GOP are wrong about safety net
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
Amtrak’s spectrum gap
NORMAN SOLOMON p. 8
Misleading celebration for surveillance program
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 9
The dangerous ‘red-state model’
ROBERT B. REICH p. 9
State of disaster
EMILY SCHWARTZ GRECO p. 9
Faking it while the world burns
DAVID DAYEN p. 10
Black America is getting screwed
WENDELL POTTER p. 10
Placing bad bets in Obamacare exchange casino
SIMON MALOY p. 10
GOP’s massive deception
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Campaign finance law: America’s unfunny joke
DEAN BAKER p. 11
Federal Reserve Board’s payroll tax on children
B. MOYERS and M. WINSHIP p. 12
Turn left on main street
WILL DURST p. 12
The life of an aging baby boomer
JOAN WALSH p. 13
Koch Brothers’ humiliating secret
LEO W. GERARD p. 13
The trade enforcement failure
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
The shrinking middle
WENONAH HAUTER p. 14
Factory farms are a load of crap
MARCY WHEELER p. 14
Benghazi outrage we should be talking about
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Rich/poor gap; Well/sick gap
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Abortion continues to split the nation
JOHN KIRIAKOU p. 15
Re-entering society — and the voting booth
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
A prairie tsunami
JOHN BUELL p. 16
How does corporate neoliberalism survive?
JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 16
Trade promotion authority is unconstitutional
JUAN COLE p. 17
Rand Paul was right to kill the Patriot Act
MARK WEISBROT p. 17
Obama seeks to normalize relations
JOE CONASON p. 18
What Republicans do is ignored
TINA DUPUY p. 18
Thank you, Nebraska Republicans!
BOB BURNETT p. 18
Iraq: Five points to remember
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Will Bernie Sanders take on Hillary?
TED RALL p. 19
Why the Freedom Act sucks
MICHAEL SILVERSTEIN p. 20
Philadelphia’s backward looking energy future
GENE NICHOL p. 20
Sally Robare and outrageous voter ID laws
BOOK REVIEW/Seth Sandronsky p. 20
Workers’ self-empowerment
ERIC BOEHLERT p. 21
Beltway press thought Iraq War was a good idea
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Caitlyn Jenner: Sports hero
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
The pre-charge punishment of Julian Assange
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Sandberg finds her way back
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Your guide to the 2016 GOP candidates
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
The open carry on campus poem
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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This page posted June 12, 2015