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COVER/Ari Rabin-Havt p. 1
GOP plan: Lie big, and never back down
EDITORIAL p. 2
Renew the Deal
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Panama Papers reveal crazy hypocrisy;
How do you make change happen? Show up;
What happened to the American train system?
Guess where the king of coal is headed?
How to make billboards even more hideous.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
KIERAN CULLEN p. 4
From lab bench to copy desk
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Clean water regs flow from feds
DISPATCHES p. 5
Trump U fraud case could go to trial this fall;
Former Sanders staffers seek to change Congress;
Va. gov. restores ex cons’ rights;
N.C. voter suppression law could swing election;
Two-thirds of Kansas voter registrations held back;
Fast food industry skirts labor law with state assists;
Climate change emerges as wedge issue;
Maine gov. says drug users should die;
Colorado GOP loses top Senate challenger;
Kansas gov. justifies kicking 15,000 off food stamps;
Mo. Legislature rejects $8.3M Medicaid funds in war against Planned Parenthood;
FCC moves on Cahter-Time Warner-Bridge House cable merger;
50 donors provide 41% of super PAC money;
Obamacare has been effective, studies say
...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Higher ed needs major disruption
TIM LYDON p. 6
Pay attention to these weird Alaskan winters
JILL RICHARDSON p. 6
That ‘natural’ label doesn’t mean much
GENE LYONS p. 7
Bernie’s time in the light is almost over
JANINE JACKSON p. 7
Trump’s bad ideas aren’t un-American
ERIC BLUMBERG p. 7
Terrorist down the block
ROBERT BOROSAGE p. 8
Atlantic primaries: Trump & Clinton consolidate
ROGER BYBEE p. 9
Pols ignore working class at their peril
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 9
Missing the Socialist moment
CONOR LYNCH p. 10
Dems stop being ‘Lesser of Two Evils’ party
DIANE RAVITCH p. 10
The South’s new re-segregation plan
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Crime bill from ’90s haunts Clintons
DEAN BAKER p. 11
Absurd logic on budget deficits and debt
BILL SCHER p. 11
Is Paris climate agreement too little too late?
DAVID DAYEN p. 12
Election blinds us to Wall St. outrage
DON ROLLINS p. 12
Hey Columbus: Stop, look and listen
AMANDA MARCOTTE p. 13
‘Both-Sidesers’ are wrong on climate change
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
Why not tax financial speculation?
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Revive the US Civil Rights Commission
WENONAH HAUTER p. 14
A call to action for people and the planet
JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 14
Media, pols, economists admit they were wrong
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
A memo to the 47%
SAM URETSKY p. 15
NY primary not as much fun as we hoped
BEN NORTON p. 15
‘Democracy Spring’ movement spreads
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Corporate America’s judicial firewall
JOHN BUELL p. 16
Superpredators revisited
REBECCA GREEN p. 16
This industry is literally making a killing
JUAN COLE p. 17
6 Policies Obama wants Saudis to change
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 17
Sanders’ hope amplified at the Vatican
JOE CONASON p. 18
On Israel, Sanders is right and Hillary knows it
JAMES A. HAUGHT p. 18
Liberals are the future
JOHN YOUNG p. 18
National gun fetish is double-barrel menace
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
For Republican survival, Gov. Kasich
TED RALL p. 19
Inside media bubble, screams unheard
ANDREW O’HEHIR p. 20
After New York, now what?
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 20
Alt work grows in US
MOVIES/Ed Rampell p. 21
Sketches of pain: Miles High
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Wrestling with Kobe’s forgotten apology
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Tubman and the currency of resistance
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Misogyny persists
WILL DURST p. 23
21st Annual political animal awards
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
Candidate wrap up
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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This page posted April 30, 2016