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COVER/Hal Crowther p. 1
The elephant’s graveyard
EDITORIAL p. 2
Reopen Cuba; Cruz no improvement; Bern on
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Who are the pickpockets prowling your city’s airport?
Who is behind Barack Obama’s push for TPP?
What do chickens and our constitutional rights have in common?
The small idea of a tall wall. Bernie battles Clinton, and the corporate media.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Kasich calls in a few (million) favors
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Agribusiness fighting for unrestricted GMOs
DISPATCHES p. 5
Cruz turns to dereg godfather Gramm for financial advice;
McConnell: No new Supreme Court justice without NRA OK;
Alabama blocks local control on minimum wage;
Brussels bombing just one in series;
Court strikes down prison gerymandering;
Use a rain barrel, go to jail;
Climate scientist makes dire warning on sea level, superstorm;
Flint probe blames water crisis on state;
Public interest groups urge FCC to block Charter-Time Warner merger;
Trump got $2B in free media;
Obama gives Cuba taste of free press
....
FROMA HARROP p. 6
How the west was shunned in the primaries
RAUL GRIJALVA p. 6
Let’s end our belief in Western fairy tales
JILL RICHARDSON p. 6
Eating in the dark
GENE LYONS p. 7
Trump’s brand is pure chaos
EMILY SCHWARTZ GRECO p. 7
The Humpty Dumpty party
N. GUNASEKARAN p. 7
Robots create ‘technological unemployment’
ROBERT BOROSAGE p. 9
The campaigns remain contested
BILL MOYERS & MICHAEL WINSHIP p. 9
GOP elites only have themselves to blame
JACK MIRKINSON p. 10
Obama’s court nomination is surprising, frustrating
PAUL CAMPOS p. 10
Obama’s gutsy godfather move
ROBERT REICH p. 10
The truth about free trade
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Restoring America: Trump’s vision versus Clinton’s
DEAN BAKER p. 11
The year of the angry economists
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 11
The rotten core
EDWARD McCLELLAND p. 12
Boomers have a Donald Trump problem
BOB BURNETT p. 12
White men! Go the the end of the line!
AMANDA MARCOTTE p. 13
Trump charges toward the nomination
ISAIAH POOLE p. 13
People’s budget unveiled amid GOP dysfunction
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Obama foreign policy moved toward reason
WENONAH HAUTER p. 14
Path being cleared for bird imports from China
MARK WEISBROT p. 14
Venezuela dismantling weapon of mass destruction
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Driving women up the ladder
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Prescription drug uses depend on who you ask
JOHN YOUNG p. 15
Ronnie, Nancy and that gay conversion
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Same old same old in Clinton land
JOHN BUELL p. 16
Neoliberalism and the ‘free markets’
JUAN COLE p. 17
Trump v. Clinton: Iran and ISIS policy
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 17
Bernie Sanders, foreign policy realist
JOE CONASON p. 18
Bernie supporters should remember before Nov.
TINA DUPUY p. 18
Quitting the GOP
MARK ANDERSON p. 18
Highway bill contains free trade superhighways
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Who owns the USA’s skies?
TED RALL p. 19
The best P.R. can’t sell a bad product
BILL JOHNSTON p. 20
Feeling the bern
ERIC BLUMBERG p. 20
Heaven can’t wait
RANDOLPH HOLHUT p. 20
Status quo is job 1 for corporate press
MOVIE REVIEW/Ed Rampell p. 21
Last Tango in Kabul
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Rams owner wanted players as St. Louis workers
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Fascism: Can it happen here?
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Hey Hillary: Smile girl
DONALD KAUL p. 23
What would Nancy say?
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
Hillary misses the point
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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