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COVER/Andrew O’Heir p. 1
Political paralysis is the new normal
EDITORIAL p. 2
No time to panic; Play nice but bring knuckles
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Big Pharma tries improving its image;
Where all the income inequality comes from;
What’s behind Obama’s push for TPP?;
Corporate bamboozlers intend to widen income inequality;
How do you feel about subsidizing corporate crime?
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
WILL DURST p. 4
Turns out New Hampshire is for losers
JIM GOODMAN p. 5
Congress must kill the TPP
DISPATCHES p. 5
No modern precedent for Supreme Court battle royal;
Endangered Republican sens. face backlash for Supreme Court obstruction;
Con lawyers argue court can still count Scalia’s votes;
Energy-dependent states risk recession
Trump's Vegas hotel seeks to squash union;
States ask high court to halt another pollution rule;
Thanks to Trump, more Latinos see GOP as 'hostile';
Cruz call to privatize Nevada's public lands gets cool reception;
EU officials fell Exxon new trade deal will ease enviro obstacles;
Kochs plot assualt on electric vehicles;
Colin Powell: Gitmo was always closing;
Isn't there a word for that?
...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Don’t bury cities in megatowers
SETH MICHAEL WHITE p. 6
A lesson from the occupiers at Malheur
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 6
Realism bites
GENE LYONS p. 7
Media slants on Clintons nothing new
EMILY SCHWARTZ GRECO p. 7
Scalia’s ghost can’t save fossil fuels
ERIC BLUMBERG p. 7
The fix is in ... or is it?
BOB CESCA p. 8
USA’s wing-nut derangement syndrome
JOEL JOSEPH p. 8
What’s good for GM not necessarily good for us
ART CULLEN p. 9
Grassley’s stupid power play
BOB BURNETT p. 9
Bernie can do it
ROBERT KUTTNER p. 10
Deepening economic crash and 2016 election
ERIC BOEHLERT p. 10
Press enables radical GOP obstruction
JOHN YOUNG p. 10
Democracy in Scalia’s world
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Latino voters not loving Cruz, Rubio
ROBERT REICH p. 11
Why Democrats must keep trying
DANIEL DENVIR p. 12
Big Brother’s big fraud
KARL FRISCH p. 12
Redefining moderate in Trump, Cruz era
AMANDA MARCOTTE p. 13
GOP Supreme Court tantrum a gift to Dems
DEAN BAKER p. 13
Sanders, Clinton and the money
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Minority votes must voice what we want
ROGER BYBEE p. 14
Bernie, Hillary differ on Wall St. money
WENONAH HAUTER p. 14
Syngenta merger must be blocked
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Convergence in health care: Trump meets Sanders
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Voters can’t give up on change
JILL RICHARDSON p. 15
No candidate is perfect
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Anti-Capitalism in America
JOHN BUELL p. 16
The future of emergency politics
JOHN KIRIAKOU p. 16
The [redacted] truth about the CIA
JUAN COLE p. 17
G.W. Bush attacks Trump for doing same things
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 17
Sanders should change foreign policy status quo
JOE CONASON p. 18
What does Sanders believe about Clinton?
TINA DUPUY p. 18
Black presidents matter
S. WOOLHANDLER & D. HIMMELSTEIN
History belies claim single-payer disrupts care
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Hillary Clinton sugarcoating her record
TED RALL p. 19
Critique of Clinton’s campaign
BEN NORTON p. 20
Making big bucks off water
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 20
Charles W. Wright: where and what he saw
ROB PATTERSON p. 20
Neil Young keeps flame alive
MOVIES/Ed Rampell p. 20
Great Caesar’s ghost!
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Past is never dead: Manning and jock-rape culture
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Voices from frontlines of Flint water crisis
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Calling all millenials
DONALD KAUL p. 23
The passion of Antonin Scalia
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
Dear Mike Bloomberg, don’t run
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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This page posted February 27, 2016