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COVER/Steve Kornacki p. 1
Obama can’t escape the GOP
EDITORIAL p. 2
Too timid to nail
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Adopt these planks from GOP’s national platform; Wall Street giddy over urge to merge; Mythical ‘Dow’ vs. real “Doug”; Insiders aiding online, offshore loan sharks; Can sanity finally conquer reefer madness?
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
A jobless recovery is a terrible waste
DISPATCHES p. 5
New details on Reagan’s ‘October Surprise’ hostage deal; Obama’s charm offensive: No deal; Ryan’s fantasy budget slashes deficit; The good, the bad and the crazy ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Price-gouging in ‘free-market’ medicine
PAUL VANDEVELDER p. 6
The education of Dr. Jane Lubchenco
JILL RICHARDSON p. 6
We’re all guinea pigs
GENE LYONS p. 7
GOP keeps moving the line
SAM PIZZIGATI p. 7
A triumph of sewage and stench
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
Stop white-knuckling it
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 8
New approach needed on climate issue
NORMAN SOLOMON p. 8
Progressive caucus not taking a stand
ROGER BYBEE p. 9
Study demolishes myth that workers lack skills
JOHN YOUNG p. 9
The $750 billion rip-off
GENE NICHOL p. 9
Dragging North Carolina back into confederacy
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 10
It’s time to tax financial transactions
ROBERT BOROSAGE p. 10
Raise the roof to raise the floor
BOB BURNETT p. 10
Sequester: the rise of Republican anarchists
DEAN BAKER p. 11
The sequester is President Obama’s fault
JOHN NICHOLS p. 11
Snyder’s Detroit takeover plan isn’t democracy
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 12
10 years later: looking back on the Iraq War
ROBERT SCHEER p. 13
Whiny billionaires in need of sequestration
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
What would RFK do?
JASON STANFORD p. 13
Scary Texas moms
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
The real racial entitlements
WENONAH HAUTER p. 14
Have a cold one, brought by the foodopoly
TA-NEHISI COATES p. 14
How does the war against al-Qaeda end?
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Health crocuses
SAM URETSKY p. 15
NRA won’t talk about guns
WENDELL POTTER p. 15
Producers’ days in health care numbered
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Are we Greece?
JOHN BUELL p. 16
The future of US climate politics
MARK WEISBROT p. 17
Chavez’s legacy
MARK ANDERSON p. 17
Lower trade barriers empower corporations
JOE CONASON p. 18
Greece is where austerity budgeting will lead US
TINA DUPUY p. 18
Congress has Munchausen by Proxy
ANDREW LEONARD p. 18
NSA doesn’t like having its privacy invaded
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Gasoline prices a challenge to Obama
TED RALL p. 19
Does your brain have a right to privacy?
MARK ENGLER p. 20
Will the next Pope embrace liberation theology?
ERIC BOEHLERT p. 20
‘Liberal media’ blames Obama for GOP’s behavior
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Just don’t get it about ‘Girls’
POPULIST PICKS p. 21
Trouble with the Curve; Saint Misbehavin’: The Wavy Gravy movie; The Abolitionists
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Why MLB owners will cheer death of Chavez
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Rand Paul’s filibuster of John Brennan
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Judge Marissa Mayer by her job, not her gender
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Big can be beautiful
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
Drone revenue enhancement alert
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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