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COVER/Eric Boehlert p. 1
Stewart, Colbert and a diminished liberal voice?
EDITORIAL p. 2
Reaping the whirlwind
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
A whining Wall Street banker pleads for pity; KBParty of plutocratic rule; Why are taxpayers subsidizing corporate crime?; Turning human misery into corporate profits; House of health-care nincompoops
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
LLEWELLYN HINKES-JONES p. 4
The decennial market crash
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Get big, get government subsidies
DISPATCHES
Uninsured rate hits new low in 2014;
O’Care helps 32M get insurance;
Chicago populists help force runoff;
Wyden calls trade hearing ‘premature’;
Repubs slash university spending;
Feingold, Strickland eye Senate races;
Banking could go postal;
Alaska legalizes pot;
Vatican takes on Big Pharma;
Repubs and their stenographers turn 72 days into two full years;
Climate deniers' favorite scientist took money from fossil fuelers;
Sandy Hook was fundraising bonanza for NRA ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Economic policy includes a senior discount?
TOM RIBE p. 6
Experiment in privatizing public land fails
JILL RICHARDSON p. 6
Eating local in the wintertime
GENE LYONS p. 7
Live from darkest Arkansas
GENE NICHOL p. 7
Stepping on necks of farmworkers in N.C.
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
Border security is not an immigration cure-all
SARAH GRAY p. 8
Does anybody want to host ‘Daily Show’
ROBERT REICH p. 8
How trade deals boost the rich and bust the rest
ROGER BYBEE p. 9
Right-to-work laws are a fatal ‘cure’
BOB BURNETT p. 9
Obama grows coattails
SIMON MALOY p. 10
GOP’s new immigration deceit
WENDELL POTTER p. 10
Public option was needed
DON ROLLINS p. 10
Bipartisan sentencing bill a moral victory
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Desperate governor turns to homophobia
DEAN BAKER p. 11
Greece does battle with creationist economics
SAM PIZZIGATI p. 11
Money to burn
ROBERT BOROSAGE p. 12
The case for a populist challenger
JOAN WALSH p. 13
Jeb’s clueless Bush privelege
JASON LINKINS p. 13
Bush’s ‘big tent’ welcomes Iraq War screw-ups
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
The billionaire governor goes after workers
EMILY SCHWARTZ GRECO p. 14
King coal catches black lung
MICHAEL BRUNE p. 14
Forging our future
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Outsource! The pharmaceutical mantra!
SAM URETSKY p. 15
In Huckabee’s view, it’s bubbas vs. bubbles
JASON STANFORD p. 15
Boehner, Netanyahu helping Iran
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Cautionary tale for our times
JOHN and ELISABETH BUELL p. 16
Executions: Theirs and ours
JUAN COLE p. 17
Today’s top 7 myths about Daesh/ISIL
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 17
Europe’s ideologues of austerity stand in way
JOE CONASON p. 18
Big lies and the punishment of Brian Williams
TINA DUPUY p. 18
The rise of the charlatans
JOHN YOUNG p. 18
Dwarfed by one Himalaya of a lie
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Foundations: Rethink your priorities
TED RALL p. 19
Obama destroyed Libya
MICHAEL LIND p. 20
Doomed by the south
BOOK REVIEW/Seth Sandronsky p. 20
Making media democracy
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Politics makes strange TV shows
POPULIST PICKS p. 21
Hellhound; Exodus; Shadows in the Night
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Gentrification is the real scandal
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Uprisings in Greece, Spain
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Hit the road, Hillary
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Rudy Giuliani: nutball or sleazeball?
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
And the crisis that brings it all down is ...
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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This page posted February 28, 2015