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COVER/Richard Schiffman p. 1
Losing bees could sting
EDITORIAL p. 2
Stop business as usual
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
George W’s $250M can of whitewash; Buying time-shares in congressional committee leaders; Cold calculations of clothings corporations; Ag biz gags on its own gag law; Politicking by corporate cowards
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Patenting plants is nuts
DISPATCHES p. 5
Austerity cost up to 2.2M jobs; Obama: worst socialist ever; New Heritage immigration report contradicts 2006 Heritage report; Benghazi ‘scandal’: the story thus far; Ark. health monitors to pipeline spill neighbors: smells OK to us; NRA ‘lawyers up’ ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Legal pot means money for states, less for gangs
RYAN ALEXANDER p. 6
A reasonable food fight
GABRIEL FURSHONG p. 6
The public-land legacy of Max Baucus
GENE LYONS p. 7
What nationality are you people, anyway?
JOHN YOUNG p. 7
Call it reproductive justice
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
Walter Cronkite moment for the blowback era
BOB BURNETT p. 8
What’s wrong with Social Security?
WENDELL POTTER p. 8
The higher insurers’ claim rate, higher CEO pay
MICHAEL LIND p. 9
How rich ‘moochers’ hurt America
DEAN BAKER p. 9
Logic deficit
NORMAN SOLOMON p. 10
Don’t vent, organize — ‘primary’ a Dem near you
MARK ANDERSON p. 10
Look for labels when rich prescribe austerity
TRAVIS WALDRON p. 10
How austerity is literally killing people
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 11
After Boston: It’s important to ask ‘why?’
JASON STANFORD p. 11
The (revised) George W. Bush legacy
ROBERT B. REICH p. 11
The new xenophobes
DAVE HELFERT p. 12
‘Everything we see is perspective, not the truth’
LEO W. GERARD p. 12
West blast obliterates safety lie
JOE CONASON p. 13
Interview with climate scientist James Hansen
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Sequester blues
TIMOTHY KARR p. 14
The Internet racket
WENONAH HAUTER p. 14
Reasons to ban fracking now
SAM PIZZIGATI p. 14
Tracking CEO pay
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Illegal and sick: medical repatriation
SAM URETSKY p. 15
What do corporations value?
JOEL D. JOSEPH p. 15
Why Lincoln and Cadillac are failing
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Obama unchained
JOHN BUELL p. 16
Austerity in crisis
JUAN COLE p. 17
Why Obama doesn’t want to intervene in Syria
JAMES MOORE p. 17
The Dick Cheney presidential library in Dallas
ROBERT SCHEER p. 18
Obama’s Pritzker appointment for the money
TINA DUPUY p. 18
Boston bombers and theory of relative laziness
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 18
Jason Collins matters
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Don’t ignore how others see us
TED RALL p. 19
If we learn geography, the terrorists have won
BOOK REVIEW/Kristian Williams p. 20
Zinn’s last lessons
BOOK REVIEW/Seth Sandronsky p. 20
Rethinking solidarity
DON ROLLINS p. 20
Oregon tobacco tax serves greater good
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Spector’s last act detracts from accomplishments
POPULIST PICKS p. 21
The Reivers, ‘Havana Havana’ and ‘Lincoln’
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Jason Collins: The substance of change
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Terror in the West, Texas, night
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Cleveland ordeal dredges up trauma
DONALD KAUL p. 23
Flying over an act of stupidity
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
Washington numbers scam
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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