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COVER/Michael Lind p. 1
The South is holding America hostage
EDITORIAL p. 2
Obamacare survives, and will thrive
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
GOP unhinged by Obamacare: Laugh ’til it hurts; Corporate greed making us sick; USA: Low wage nation or good jobs nation? Monsanto buys food prize; Larry Goodwyn, R.I.P.
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 4
The problem with capitalism
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
ROBERT SCHEER p. 5
Racism, cruelty drive GOP health care agenda
DISPATCHES p. 5
Fox’s ‘Obamacare’ smears can’t stand scrutiny;
Farm bill showdown over food stamps;
Kochs see $100B profit from tar sands pipeline;
Labor warns Dems: Don’t mess with Social Security or Medicare ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Party of pain
LINDON PRONTO p. 6
Stand up for wildland firefighters
JILL RICHARDSON p. 6
More food does not guarantee less hunger
GENE LYONS p. 7
200 years of tea party paranoia
JOHN YOUNG p. 7
If at first you don’t secede
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
The plot against pensions
ISAIAH J. POOLE p. 8
Tea party shutdown cost billions of dollars
DEAN BAKER p. 9
Republicans delusional about spending, deficits
LES LEOPOLD p. 9
Banking that Wall Street will save us?
WENDELL POTTER p. 10
GOP overreach makes Obamacare a reality
JASON STANFORD p. 10
RNC will fail at reaching out to Hispanics
DAVE JOHNSON p. 10
Misunderestimating the GOP
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
America’s poor education is a policy choice
MICHAEL BRUNE p. 11
Cleaning up campaign finance
BOB RUNDLE p. 11
We should build an economy that’s fair to all
ELIAS ISQUITH p. 12
Boehner’s sorry reality
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 12
Republicans aren’t surrendering anything
JOAN WALSH p. 13
Kick shutdown extortionists out of office
JOHN NICHOLS p. 13
Paul Ryan’s peddling a ‘shock doctrine’ cure
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Time to stop abusing public employees
WENONAH HAUTER p. 14
Widening rift over fracking
ROBERT B. REICH p. 14
The tea party’s big mistake
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Obamacare is a victory for women
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Money talks in politics, rich want to talk louder
SAM PIZZIGATI p. 15
Subsidizing economic inequality
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
The meaning of Syria
JOHN BUELL p. 16
No way to run a government
NORMAN SOLOMON p. 17
Google: Doing evil with ALEC
MARK ANDERSON p. 17
Swiss propose basic income payment
BILL JOHNSTON p. 17
Minority rule in the dollarocracy
JOE CONASON p. 18
Risky business for sponsors of the GOP
TINA DUPUY p. 18
Heritage: group that cried individual mandate
RANDY KEHLER p. 18
Resisting the lies that make war possible
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Tea Party energy vs. progressive lassitude
TED RALL p. 19
Registering for Obamacare
RICHARD ESKOW p. 20
We retort, we decide
BOOK REVIEW/Seth Sandronsky p. 20
Saving our public schools
DON ROLLINS p. 20
Berkeley still a city on a hill
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
‘Mandela’ celebrates a hero
POPULIST PICKS p. 21
Heir to execution; When you’re deaf; Casting by
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Slave labor? FIFA mangles World Cup
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Oil, Azerbaijan and strange case of Rick Bourke
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Every wedding should be gay
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Attack of the zombie lawmakers
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
Washington Nihilism
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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