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COVER/Simon Maloy p. 1
Obamacare foes must pay a price
EDITORIAL p. 2
Keep the Internet open
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Corporate lobbyists are challenged by a ‘populist lobby’; Consumer protection and corporate protection; America’s rebellion for fairness and justice; Perry’s mess; Don’t shut the Post Office, expand their services; My dear friend, Tim Carpenter
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Anti-gay preacher sinned against life
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 5
Botched execution calls death penalty to account
DISPATCHES p. 5
Tea Party loses battles, wins war; Dems competitive in 3 key Southern states; Hospitals see big drop in uninsured admissions in blue states; Poorest still locked out in red states; Pope says Jesus demands redistribution ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
In drought, fortunes are made
GREG LEWIS p. 6
This land is our land — until it’s privatized
JILL RICHARDSON p. 6
Bacon is not a vegetable
GENE LYONS p. 7
The great Benghazi scandal gets even sillier
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 7
Bundy and the entitlement of the priveleged
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
We’re all just grenades in the partisan wars
SIMON MALOY p. 8
The right’s sad Obamacare transition
BILL MOYERS AND M. WINSHIP p. 8
Don’t let net neutrality be a broken promise
DEAN BAKER p. 9
What problem is privatizing meant to solve?
SARAH ANDERSON p. 9
Derailing the high-speed trading bullet train
BOB LORD p. 9
When corporations get too big to tax
WENDELL POTTER p. 10
The truth about Canadian health care system
JOHN YOUNG p. 10
Koch brothers vs. ‘mute’ button
STEVE COBBLE p. 10
Hyping the GOP’s prospects in 2014
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Affirmative action finds brave defense
ROBERT REICH p. 11
Right-wing lies about inequality
DAVID ATKINS p. 12
How the rich stole our money
ELLEN BROWN p. 13
Robbing Main Street to prop up Wall Street
JOAN WALSH p. 13
Tea party nut in RINO’s clothing
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Indenturing the young
WENONAH HAUTER p. 14
There is no ‘right way’ to frack
ERIC BOEHLERT p. 14
Rush Limbaugh’s California ratings debacle
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
A new ballad of Paladin
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Protecting democracy from plutocrats
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Savaging the public sector
JOHN BUELL p. 16
Why academic economics matters
MARK WEISBROT p. 17
China as the world’s largest economy
N. GUNASEKARAN p. 17
Alternative vision for Asia’s unequal social order
JOE CONASON p. 18
Economic inequality is a malady, not a cure
TINA DUPUY p. 18
Ending slavery: Decriminalize prostitution
JOSEPH B. ATKINS p. 18
UAW takes case against Nissan
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Stop corporate freeloaders
TED RALL p. 19
Working classism at work
ROBERT CREAMER p. 20
Why reviving ‘Benghazi’ is stupid for GOP
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 20
Why classroom experience matters
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
The art of the online mixtape
POPULIST PICKS p. 21
‘Cosmos’; ‘Dare to Dream’; ‘Downtown’
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Donald Sterling, awful sports owners
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Solitary confinement is not the answer
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Our children, our dreamers
JASON STANFORD p. 23
Call to national service
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
The personal privacy poem
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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