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COVER/David Dayen p. 1
How the post office could save the economy
EDITORIAL p. 2
GOP needs Obamacare backlash
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
A financial transaction tax on high frequency traders; Flim flam of the Employment Policy Institute; Let’s re-fund America; Ted Nugent brings bigotry, misogyny to governors race; Climate change, drought, beer and me
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
JOHN NICHOLS p. 4
Could approving Keystone harm Democrats?
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
DISPATCHES p. 5
Industrial ag chips away at democracy
Bernie Sanders mulls run for president;
GOP threatens pay cuts for docs if Obamacare goes ahead:
What a GOP Senate would look like;
Uninsured rate drops under 'Obamacare';
Crazy Paul Broun leads GOP Senate race in Georgia;
Landrieu sees opportunity in Medicaid expansion;
Koch Bros. outspend top 10 unions;
Senate rejects lawyer for notorious client:
Warren would tax m'aires to refinance student loans;
Colo. weed sales top $14M in first month:
Senate Intel chair accuses CIA of spying on Congress ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Mass transit is for the young
JONATHAN THOMPSON p. 6
Terrorists are not the greatest threat
JILL RICHARDSON p. 6
Keeping sludge from your seedlings is hard
GENE LYONS p. 7
Defeating Dems is the point of misleading ads
MAUDE BARLOW p. 7
Saving our blue future
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
The rich are dependent on government welfare
DEAN BAKER p. 8
President Obama, the do-gooder
ROBERT BOROSAGE p. 9
Obama’s 2015 budget: Waging populist fights
ROBERT B. REICH p. 9
The real job killers: Lousy jobs, lousy wages
ROBERT CREAMER p. 10
Why the GOP will lose bet against Obamacare
WENDELL POTTER p. 10
Does Obamacare offer too many choices?
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Trying ‘El Chapo’: Let’s let Mexico handle this
BOB BURNETT p. 11
The war on democracy: Art Pope and rich bullies
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 11
The US is more unequal than ever
JOSEPH B. ATKINS p. 12
VW defeat won’t stop UAW organizing at plant
TIMOTHY KARR p. 12
Why you should fear big bad cable
JOAN WALSH p. 13
GOP strategy is more cynical than you think
MARK ANDERSON p. 13
Selective anger at the banks
DAVE JAMIESON p. 13
Minimum wage raise would reduce spending
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
American multinationals and tax havens
WENONAH HAUTER p. 14
Playing chicken with our health
VERN TURNER p. 14
What are we defending?
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Insurance companies in bed with Uncle Sam
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Put money in right pockets to cure economy
JOHN YOUNG p. 15
Bazookas and the founding fathers
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Decline of the left
JOHN BUELL p. 16
Comcast merger threatens our democracy
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 16
Ukraine crisis calls for less bluster
MARK WEISBROT p. 17
Venezuela’s struggle remains a conflict
JOE CONASON p. 18
Debunking ‘voter fraud’
TINA DUPUY p. 18
The GOP frontrunner for 2016: Vladimir Putin
NORMAN SOLOMON p. 18
Obama denounces breach of international law
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
The cruel, shameless ideology of corporatism
TED RALL p. 19
The four horsemen of journalism apocalypse
THOMAS FRANK p. 20
Boomer humor’s big lie
DON ROLLINS p. 20
Sex trafficking, an American sin
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
If only Nashville were more like ‘Nashville’
POPULIST PICKS p. 21
‘Lovelace’; ‘War of the Worlds’; ‘Valentine Rd.’
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Israel’s future in FIFA is uncertain
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
44 years a prisoner: The case of Eddie Conway
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Let’s talk about ‘your’ face
JASON STANFORD p. 23
Texas attorney general sells 10th amendment
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
Financial market haiku
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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