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COVER/Robert B. Reich p. 1
The Ryan choice: ‘Fix’ Medicare
EDITORIAL p. 2
Granny starvers attack
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Black liquor moonshine; The people’s choice! Uh ... not really; Romney runs away from his running mate; Tsunami of political slime; Scalia’s astonishing prevarications
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Resistant weeds force weed killers to get aggressive
DISPATCHES p. 5
GOP panic over rape gaffe in Mo. Senate race; Romney, Ryan see delays in Medicare coverage; Branding Rep. Ryan; Biden: no Social Security cuts; Mitt’s tax forms may hide felonies ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Conservatives outsource moralizing to liberals
BEN BURKETT p. 6
Why we need the food from Family Farms Act
PEPPER TRAIL p. 6
A world smaller than we thought
GENE LYONS p. 7
Paul Ryan is ‘America’s accountant’
DON ROLLINS p. 7
Oregon’s biggest daily paper sits election out
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
Can the government create jobs or not?
JOAN WALSH p. 8
Paul Ryan: Randian poseur
JOHN NICHOLS p. 9
Ryan’s problem with progressive tradition
MIKE LUX p. 9
The dream ticket
DOUGLAS KMIEC p. 10
Is Paul Ryan Romney’s new religion problem?
ANDREW KORFHAGE p. 10
How Romney could blow Iowa
CHERIE MORTICE p. 10
Yes, Mr. Ryan, I’m from Iowa
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 11
Demand a more meaningful election
DEB NARDONE p. 11
Fracking exports
LEO W. GERARD p. 11
Demote, defang DeMarco
JOSEPH B. ATKINS p. 12
UAW unveils Southern strategy
DEAN BAKER p. 13
Rep. Paul Ryan’s far-right agenda
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
What Ryan says about Romney
WENONAH HAUTER p. 14
Water company squeezes woman for last drop
SAM PIZZIGATI p. 14
The 64-gazillion-dollar question
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Intellectual dust-heap of health myths
SAM URETSKY p. 15
What’s good for business?
MARK ANDERSON p. 15
Postal banks could save mail service
ROGER BYBEE p. 16
US industrial policy needed
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Into the abyss
ART CULLEN p. 17
Heaven forbid that the farmer should eat
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 17
Ethanol feeds food crisis
THE AMERICAS/Roberto Rodriguez p. 18
Threats nurtured from on high
TINA DUPUY p. 18
GOP wants fewer people to vote for them
JOE CONASON p. 18
‘Missing evidence’ in Romney’s taxes
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Ryan’s budget:?right in your face America!
TED RALL p. 19
Bringing a pen to a gunfight
BERNIE SANDERS p. 20
Social Security at 77: Still under attack
ALLAN BRAWLEY p. 20
Break up the big banks
BOOK REVIEW/Donald McCarthy p. 20
The hidden side of capitalism
POPULIST PICKS p. 21
Experience America
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Not your pop’s pop music
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
After the Olympics:?‘The gloves come off’
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Ryan: Man with a plan, from fiscal to physical
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
On my knees in Ohio, praying for echo chamber
WILL DURST p. 23
Barack Obama election-year decathlon
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
I dreamed I saw Ayn Rand last night
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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