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COVER/Deena Shanker p. 1
Chicken is killing the planet
EDITORIAL p. 2
Death Panel’s last stand?
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Corporatizing animals — from cuteness to cruelty; Donnie Trump U; The rich are stealing America; I-fracking adds extra danger to flooding; A tomato tale that’s hard to stomach
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Lawmakers outlaw UN, welcome agribusiness
DISPATCHES p. 5
GOP chairman eyes Medicare cuts; New report sees lower costs under Obamacare; Why are 47M Americans on food stamps?; Safety net programs kept 40M out of poverty; Immigration reform looks dead; Pope attacks global capitalism ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
China’s rich, yearning to breathe free
JILL RICHARDSON p. 6
The USDA’s reckless plan
TRAVIS KELLY p. 6
Could we finally pass a sensible farm bill?
GENE LYONS p. 7
How Obama left neocons feeling foolish
JOHN YOUNG p. 7
To extremes, in climate and inaction
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
The lessons of Colorado’s gun debate
DEAN BAKER p. 8
The simple reason for the long downturn
GENE NICHOL p. 9
Continuing the judicial assault on democracy
DOUG KENDALL p. 9
Elizabeth Warren is right
CAROLINE FAIRCHILD p. 9
Middle-class decline mirrors the fall of unions
JOAN WALSH p. 10
Ted Cruz’s nightmare: Obamacare helps people
NORMAN SOLOMON p. 10
Next step for peace in Syria — Stop ‘lethal aid’
BOB BURNETT p. 10
The Obama doctrine
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 11
Our need for empathy
ROBERT REICH p. 11
Political uses of the ‘free market’ myth
SAM PIZZIGATI p. 11
Danger ahead: Our disappearing pensions
DAVID DAYEN p. 12
The banksters got away with it
WILL DURST p. 12
The world’s policeman stops for a donut
ELLEN BROWN p. 13
The Armaggedon looting machine
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Five years after the crash began
CARL POPE p. 14
It’s still oil, stupid
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 14
News deserts
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Ignoring the pumphandles
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Government helping people take care of people
JASON STANFORD p. 15
Political opportunism on Syria
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
The tax Wall Street fears
JOHN BUELL p. 16
Double or nothing
MARK WEISBROT p. 17
Forty years after ‘the other Sept. 11’
SALVATORE BABONES p. 17
A higher minimum down under
MARY KAY HENRY p. 17
Movement to boost wages must succeed
ROBERT SCHEER p. 18
People win as Lawrence Summers trades power
TINA DUPUY p. 18
Mistaken identity politics
JOE CONASON p. 18
Striking Syria: Is Obama too much like Bush?
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Can the ‘new’ Trumka trump Trumka?
TED RALL p. 19
Americans are not ‘war weary’
MARTY KAPLAN p. 20
Most depressing brain finding ever
DON ROLLINS p. 20
Seamus Heaney, wartime poet
BOOK REVIEW/Seth Sandronsky p. 20
Women prisoners resist
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
A new look at old friends
POPULIST PICKS p. 21
Origins of Oz; Mt. Rushmore; Delbert & Glen
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Oneida Nation fights to change name of team
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Americans say no to another Mideast war
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
You never stop being an alcoholic’s child
DONALD KAUL p. 23
The stiffing state
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
A club of growth economic recovery
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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