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COVER/Robert Reich p. 1
A revolt against the ruling class
EDITORIAL p. 2
Progressives must make our own media
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Marijuana: criminalization to legalization to celebration;
Corporate crime supported by legal favoritism;
Banksters: a story of crime and punishment;
Congress: meet your poverty-wage food servers;
Don’t TPP on me
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
Civilian militias’ gospel of desperation
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
GOP ignores all services in Planned Parenthood
DISPATCHES p. 5
Fox asks GOP candidates about messages from God, but not 7 topics;
Trump unbowed;
Dems set 6 debates;
New proof Obamacare is working;
CBO:
Ending sequester cuts could create 1.4M jobs;
Sanders' racial justice platform wins praise from black activists;
Nurses endorse Bernie;
Keystone XL backer mulls NAFTA lawsuit;
St. Louis County puts reporter on trial;
Voter ID restrictions may have decided Texas congressional race...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Fighting climate change for real
Tom Sanzillo p. 6
Powder River coal becoming ‘stranded asset’
JILL RICHARDSON p. 6
Hidden hand in obesity
GENE LYONS p. 7
Donald Trump: supervillain of the GOP
KATRINA VANDEN HUEVEL p. 7
Jon Stewart’s progressive legacy
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
Wisconsin’s economic cautionary tale
Donald McCarthy p. 8
Bernie opened a new path to presidency
JOHN YOUNG p. 8
I do hope that doggie’s for sale
BOB BURNETT p. 9
Hillary Clinton’s economic plan
ROGER BYBEE p. 9
Wisconsin sends public bucks to Bucks
BOB CESCA p. 10
The truth about Planned Parenthood
LEO GERARD p. 10
Oil corporations to export our security
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
‘Attitude’ poisons bonds of police, community
DEAN BAKER p. 11
Bernie Sanders, serious route to global equality
SAM PIZZIGATI p. 11
A victory for CEO-worker pay disclosure
DAVID DAYEN p. 12
Don’t look now, but TPP just hit a major snag
BILL SCHER p. 12
Obama’s climate plan: is it good enough?
JOAN WALSH p. 13
Jeb Bush, worst candidate ever
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 13
Jim Crow lives
GENE NICHOL p. 13
‘Current Conditions’ and the voting rights act
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
The assault on the Voting Rights Act
WENONAH HAUTER p. 14
EPA’s fracking study explained
JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 14
The country of origin labeling war
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Annals of greed, continued
EMILY SCHWARTZ GRECO p. 15
Corporate greed or healthy babies
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Donald Trump’s disasters
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Score two for Wall Street
JOHN BUELL p. 16
A modern Greek tragedy
JUAN COLE p. 17
Cringe-worthy GOP foreign policy moments
KEVIN MARTON, PHYLLIS BENNIS p. 17
Supporters of diplomacy must speak up
JOHN KIRIAKOU p. 17
The sentence they don’t tell you about
JOE CONASON p. 18
Which ‘senior official’ smeared Hillary?
TINA DUPUY p. 18
Trump, rising from the GOP’s ashes
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
GOP support tax evasion by starving IRS
TED RALL p. 19
Conservatism with a heart? It’s socialism
THOM HARTMAN N p. 20
Rebooting the American Dream
SETH SANDROSKY p. 20
Restaurant workers demand dignity now
PLAIN TALK/Dave Zweifel p. 20
Social Security is part of progressives’ legacy
ERIC BOELHLERT p. 21
Press protects Koch donors’ anonymity
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
The water in Rio is full of sludge
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
70 years after the bombs were dropped
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
‘So long, ladies,’ Says GOP
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Creeping out of the foxhole
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
Gov. Walker on public unions
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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This page posted August 16, 2015