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COVER/Heather Digby Parton p. 1
GOP health plan: ‘People could die, that’s OK’
EDITORIAL p. 2
Derail Trans-Pacific Pact; Good news at FCC
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Corporate coup d’etat; ALEC’s legislative bawdy house; Explaining congressional morality; Shoveling America’s wealth to the top; Insiders aiding online, offshore loan sharks; Aetna lifts standard for ‘competitive wages’
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Constitutional elitism
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
One person’s weed is another’s salad
DISPATCHES p. 5
Resistance to Medicaid expansion claims Baton Rouge ER;
Kochs back attack on Medicaid;
Employed white Southerners most at risk in O’care challenge;
GOP health plan — same old same old;
Who would trust Repubs with economy again?;
Half of America is still broke;
Obama readies veto pen;
Stein mulls another Green prez race;
Pols start lining up for 2016;
Kochs already have raised $249M for political takeover;
Rauner attacks Illinois unions;
Oil workers strike expands:
Tennessee welfare drug tests find 37 users ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Free tuition at comm. college should be the start
ALEXIS BONOGOFSKY p. 6
Oil pipelines are going to keep breaking
JILL RICHARDSON p. 6
Don’t give up the fight
GENE LYONS p. 7
Do liberals have a free speech problem?
RAUL A. REYES p. 7
Friends like these
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
Big tax bills for the poor, tiny ones for the rich
BOB CESCA p. 8
Mike Huckabee pontificates
BILL SCHER p. 9
Four bogus attacks on the Obama budget
JASON STANFORD p. 9
Why Texas can’t promise tax cuts
DAVID DAYEN p. 10
Corporate ‘amnesty’ plan could doom economy
WENDELL POTTER p. 10
Health insurers’ stock soars
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Labor woes under the golden arches
DEAN BAKER p. 11
Is Hillary Clinton in the bottom 3 percent?
MEDEA BENJAMIN p. 11
Will the real ‘low-life scum’ please stand up?
MICHAEL WINSHIP p. 12
The super-rich can’t hide from the rest of us
DAVID MACARAY p. 12
Organized labor showing signs of life
JOAN WALSH p. 13
Life after Mitt
BOB BURNETT p. 13
Republicans try to bully US into attacking Iran
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
It’s time to address the threat of Boko Haram
WENONAH HAUTER p. 14
Favoritism to corporate interests
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 14
A recovery for some
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
A Valentine’s Day gift of health
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Vaccine myths still persist
ROBERT B. REICH p. 15
The share-the-scraps economy
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
On the road to corporate health care
JOHN BUELL p. 16
Alternatives to market myths
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 17
For Europe’s sake, Greece needs a ‘new deal’
NORMAN SOLOMON p. 17
CIA mission: Destroy the whistleblower
JOE CONASON p. 18
What the GOP must do first
TINA DUPUY p. 18
Choosing weed policy over cyber security
MARK ANDERSON p. 18
Deluded farm groups aid trade trap
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Obama’s State of the Union — swings and misses
TED RALL p. 19
Why are we at war against ISIS?
DENNIS TRAINOR JR. p. 20
American sniper unloads on ‘American Sniper’
BOOK REVIEW/Seth Sandronsky p. 20
Black islanders, mainlanders
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Movie houses need to lure us off the couch
JOHN YOUNG p. 21
You will not refuse the tar sands mafia
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Roger Goodell: It’s time to resign
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Net neutrality, back by popular demand
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Praise god and bash the gays
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Telling the truth about religious violence
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
No more accept austerity’s bite
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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This page posted February 13, 2015