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COVER/David Dayen p. 1
Barney Frank bombshell explains financial crisis
EDITORIAL p. 2
Give peace a chance
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Imagine Ted Cruz as president; Chuck Schumer upchucks at sight of TPP; Wall Street upset by lack of deference from senators; Turning human misery into corporate profits; Help oust Kochs’ junk science from public science museums
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
HAROLD COOK p. 4
School ‘choice’: How to get away with robbery
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Think locally, invest socially
DISPATCHES p. 5
Rahm wins re-election but Chuy moves grassroots;
Danny Schechter, ‘News Dissector,’ passes;
Rand’s home state relies on programs he’s vowed to dismantle;
Feds admit pot kills tumors;
Texas city all-in renewable energy ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Obamacare should be less complex
KATE WOODS p. 6
A fracking fight that we’re still fighting
JILL RICHARDSON p. 6
Save tax dollars by treading more lightly
GENE LYONS p. 7
Anarchy of ‘religious liberty’
DON ROLLINS p. 7
Billie Holiday as spiritual guide
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
SEC illustrates danger of regulatory capture
RICHARD ESKOW p. 8
Big-bank bad guys bully democracy
ROBERT BOROSAGE p. 9
Who wins the money primary?
JOHN YOUNG p. 9
Jeb’s I-love-the-’90s education ideas
LEO W. GERARD p. 9
Bad trade
HEATHER DIGBY PARTON p. 10
Bill O’Reilly and Rush Limbaugh discard norms
WENDELL POTTER p. 10
Red state lawmakers help cancer patients
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
The chaos we created in the Middle East
DEAN BAKER p. 11
Don’t worry about the robots
SAM PIZZIGATI p. 11
Your dollars at work — for the rich
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 12
TPP will help neither workers nor consumers
JOSEPH B. ATKINS p. 12
No easy way for a union
JOAN WALSH p. 13
Corporate America shames Pence; what’s next?
ROBERT B. REICH p. 13
The rise of working poor and non-working rich
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Dr. King’s vision waits to be fulfilled
WENONAH HAUTER p. 14
Protecting our civil rights and environment
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 14
Paranoia will destroy you
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Medicaid and the minimum wage
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Who polices supplements and herbal remedies?
FELICIA GUSTIN p. 15
Thawing Cuban relations could be good for you
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Barbarians at the gates
JOHN BUELL p. 16
Earth Day and the future of the commons
BOB BURNETT p. 16
Israel:America’s bad brother
JUAN COLE p. 17
GOP threats guarantee end of sanctions
MARY TAYLOR p. 17
Fear, flattery: Singapore under Lee Kuan Yew
JOE CONASON p. 18
Country music, tea party ‘populism,’ Ted Cruz
TINA DUPUY p. 18
A new era of televangelists
JOE CIRINCIONE p. 18
Iran nuclear deal victory for US national security
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
The balancing tensions of Ashraf Ghani
TED RALL p. 19
John Kasich’s Ohio fantasy
BRITTNEY COOPER p. 20
The right’s made-up god
BOOK REVIEW/Seth Sandronsky p. 20
Cybertariat struggles
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
‘Love & Mercy’ tells truth about Brian Wilson
PHYLLIS BENNIS p. 21
Diplomacy defeats war for a change’
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
How Chris Borland reframed football debate
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Hate doesn’t pay
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Firing squads are not tourist attractions
WILL DURST p. 23
Crazy Ted Cruz
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
Earth & us
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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This page posted April 10, 2015