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COVER/David Dayen p. 1
Elizabeth Warren’s fight to rein in banks
EDITORIAL p. 2
Big business drives ‘Stand Your Ground’
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
The ‘helping hands’ that are helping themselves; If you only watch your bottom line, you can’t lift your head high; Vox populi: ‘No thanks to more NAFTAs’; ‘Blessed are the rich’; Repeal PATRIOT Act
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Healthy food should drive farm bill
DISPATCHES p. 5
Obama seeks ‘better bargain,’ GOP replies, ‘no deal’; White House still seeks ‘grand bargain’; Senate races take shape; King sees bad Dreamers; Obamacare drives costs down ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Health reform will happen, none too soon
TERRIL L. SHORB p. 6
Let us be worthy of firefighters’ sacrifice
JILL RICHARDSON p. 6
A deadly power surge
GENE LYONS p. 7
Zimmerman trial: Tragic, but correct verdict
JOHN YOUNG p. 7
Just another day for George Zimmerman nation
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
How cash secretly rules surveillance policy
RICHARD ESKOW p. 8
While Washington sleeps, a nation crumbles
DEAN BAKER p. 9
Trade deal with Europe: Don’t buy the hype
RAYMOND J. LEARSY p. 9
Understanding why you’ll pay higher gas prices
ROBERT B. REICH p. 9
Why Republicans want to tax students
SAM PIZZIGATI p. 10
Predistribute the wealth
NORMAN SOLOMON p. 10
Denouncing NSA surveillance isn’t enough
MARK ANDERSON p. 10
School district backs down on chipped students
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 11
The president’s empty rhetoric on drones
TERRANCE HEATH p. 11
Five for the NLRB: A win for workers
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 11
For the sake of democracy, kill the filibuster
MICHAEL LIND p. 12
Bloomberg: More dangerous than Koch brothers
WENDELL POTTER p. 12
Is ‘Julie’ the daughter of ‘Harry and Louise’?
GENE NICHOL p. 13
Roberts doubles down for white supremacy
JIM WALLIS p. 13
Moral Mondays
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Martin verdict exposes heavy burden
WENONAH HAUTER p. 14
What you need to know about biotech crops
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 14
Wal-Mart vs. workers
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Budgeting for health
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Charity cases
JASON STANFORD p. 15
A miscarriage in Texas
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Citigroup and the Democrats
JOHN BUELL p. 16
Journalism, objectivity and godliness
DAVID SCHMIDT p. 17
The face of NAFTA goes to the polls
N. GUNASERKRAN p. 17
Confronting India’s political dilemma
ROBERT SCHEER p. 18
The return of Lawrence Summers
TINA DUPUY p. 18
Southern fried Christian Sharia
JOE CONASON p. 18
Republicans could learn from George Bush
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Toward a living legacy for Mandela
TED RALL p. 19
‘1984’ is here. Yawn
ROBERT BOROSAGE p. 19
Repubs nix food stamps: This is who they are
ART CULLEN p. 20
Harkin letting loose as retirement nears
EDWARD McCLELLAND p. 20
Detroit is your problem, too
ROGER BYBEE p. 20
The demise of labor papers
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Keep your head in the game
POPULIST PICKS p. 21
‘Endangered List’; ‘Mostly Sex Stuff’; ‘Manhunt’
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
America’s justice system is broken
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Let the light of Mandela shine on US injustice
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
My perch of white privelege
DONALD KAUL p. 23
There ought to be a better law
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
Lizzie Warren
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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