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COVER/Andy Kroll p. 1
Stop billionaires from owning politics
EDITORIAL p. 2
‘Scandals’ don’t stick
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
The chilling reality of America’s worsening jobs crisis; Corporations fund their pet political candidates; Cantor’s con would steal workers’ overtime pay; Let’s join the Army; Homeless and hungry in Houston
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Hard to steer clear of genetically modified food
DISPATCHES p. 5
Congress pretends to bite Apple; GOP Hispanic Outreach Director joins Dems; Congressman gets farm subsidies, denounces food stamp recipients as ‘stealing’ ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Consumers not best drivers in health care
ARI LEVAUX p. 6
Time to see how the sausage gets made
RAUL A. REYES p. 6
Heritage Foundation’s immigration nightmare
GENE LYONS p. 7
For the love of a calf
JASON STANFORD p. 7
What Rick Perry can learn from California
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
The military’s 40-year-experiment
DAVID CAY JOHNSTON p. 9
The other IRS scandal
DEAN BAKER p. 10
Cutting Social Security and not taxing Wall Street
ROGER BYBEE & CAROLYN WINTER p. 10
Time to challenge gun fundamentalists’ rationale
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 11
Bold Abe aims to take Japan in new direction
ROBERT B. REICH p. 11
Family values and the new economy
SAM PIZZIGATI p. 11
A primer for taming corporate power
RICHARD ESKOW p. 12
Holder aggressive on leaks, not banks
JOHN YOUNG p. 12
Coverup for you to probe, Senator
IGOR VOLSKY p. 12
5 major scandals the media isn’t obsessing about
PETER S. GOODMAN p. 13
IRS was dead right to scrutinize Tea Party
GWEN MOORE p. 13
‘Cost-benefit’ bill benefits Wall Street
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Free students from debtor’s prison
WENONAH HAUTER p. 14
Monsanto and other firms are winning in US
BOB BURNETT p. 14
Republicans aren’t Christians
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Government should protect the public
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Will the good guys win the class war?
IAN MILHISER p. 15
GOP judges curtail union rights
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
The grocer’s daughter
JOHN BUELL p. 16
The future of austerity
MARK WEISBROT p. 17
‘Free trade’ agreements won’t create jobs
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 17
Stop playing God
NORMAN SOLOMON p. 17
Obama in plunderland
JOE CONASON p. 18
Watergate revenge
TINA DUPUY p. 18
Donald Trump: The rape apologist
ROBERT SCHEER p. 18
Elizabeth Warren, a great investment
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Patriotic yardsticks for unpatriotic corporations
TED RALL p. 19
Investigating investigators
LEE PAPA p. 20
A preemptive eulogy for the Obama presidency
DAVID COBB p. 20
Greens form shadow government
DAVID REINGOLD p. 20
License to kill
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
The untold James Bond
POPULIST PICKS p. 21
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Rep. Steve King: ‘Why won’t Obama call Tebow?’
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Three heroines of Guatemala
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Whistle-blowers have already lost their nerve
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Uncle Sam: Tax the titans
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
The work to be poor poem
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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