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COVER/Conor Lynch p. 1
America’s libertarian freakshow
EDITORIAL p. 2
Just say no to Fast Track
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Corporate thieves steal workers’ comp; The secret corporate Congress inside Congress; The fountain-pen economy; Message to TPP: secret government is un-American; ‘Dr. Evil’ turns out to be ‘Dr. Silly
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
JILL RICHARDSON p. 4
The right to eat
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Discrepancies between men and women
DISPATCHES p. 5
Pipeline blues: who’s to blame;
TPP cartoonist wins Pulitzer;
Anti-Hillary book relies on hoax to back up accusations;
Poll shows turnaround on Obamacare popularity;
Southerners trapped in Medicaid gap;
Richest 0.01% of Americans gave 42% of political donations in 2012;
Talent following super PAC money;
FBI botched hair analysis for more than 20 years;
House PAC expects Benghazi report pre-election;
Podcasting troll patent knocked down;
Woman cites religious freedom law to feed homeless
...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Farming moves north with the temperatures
ARI LEVAUX p. 6
A street-smart chicken for your backyard
RICHARD MARTIN p. 6
Saving coal country
GENE LYONS p. 7
Barack Obama is no Neville Chamberlain
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
Companies’ pro-equality rhetoric belied
DON ROLLINS p. 7
Obama flunks (another) theology test
BOB BURNETT p. 8
Ready for Hillary?
JASON STANFORD p. 8
Give Ted Cruz a gold star
ROBERT BOROSAGE p. 9
Hillary is in: The challenge for the new populism
KATIE MCDONOUGH p. 10
How fight for $15 will transform 2016 debate
LEO W. GERARD p. 10
The high cost of fighting for $15
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Justice has been done in Boston
ROBERT B. REICH p. 11
Hillary’s candidacy, America’s defining moment
DEAN BAKER p. 11
Bonanza for the superrich
DAVID DAYEN p. 12
Wall Street’s favorite myth just got busted
JOHN YOUNG p. 12
Hardliners desperately seeking Satan
WILL BUNCH p. 13
America, it’s been a privilege
JOAN WALSH p. 13
Take that, Ted Cruz
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Obama leads US-Cuba relations into new era
WENONAH HAUTER p. 14
Beware of corporate GMO spin doctors
WENDELL POTTER p. 14
Energy firms, insurers deftly use others
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Polio: Lessons for today
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Budgets follow election results
MARY ALICE CRIM p. 15
Don’t let this cable giant stamp out democracy
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
The right’s fiscal nuclear option
JOHN BUELL p. 16
Diet and sustainable agriculture
JUAN COLE p. 17
US history of coup-making
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 17
Our intelligence apparatus, operating in the dark
JOE CONASON p. 18
Iran deal: Do the critics want war?
TINA DUPUY p. 18
Freedom isn’t a zero-sum game
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 18
The campaign begins
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Stop corporate welfare kings
TED RALL p. 19
Rand Paul proves political system is broken
JIM CULLEN p. 20
Former lawman would make cops accountable
BOOK REVIEW/Heather Seggel p. 20
Walt Whitman’s self-help advice for democracy
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Robert Moses and the use and abuse of power
POPULIST PICKS p. 21
Three music documentaries to check out
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
So ... the NYPD just broke an NBA player’s leg
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Capital punishment? A dead policy walking
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Michelle Knight — Call her Lily, please
DONALD KAUL p. 23
The road to ruin
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
Tough love, Kansas style
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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This page posted April 25, 2015