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COVER/James Cersonsky p. 1
Labor movement emerges in Wisconsin
EDITORIAL p. 2
Bust the privatizers; Keep Fannie & Freddie
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Forget student loans — make higher ed free; Here comes the border-industrial complex; Get radio-active; Corporate greed is making us sick; Monsanto’s Wizard of Oz website
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Pesticides will kill the planet
DISPATCHES p. 5
Green Tea Coalition drives wedge between teas, funders; Texas has greatest need for health expansion, but R’s aren’t interested; House moves to dismantle Postal Service; NSA vets say, yes, NSA does collect domestic calls; DEA also uses domestic spying ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Cheap labor is nobody’s right
FORREST WHITMAN p. 6
Our western heartland train is endangered
JOE ROMM p. 6
Drought-stricken farmers drain for fracking
GENE LYONS p. 7
Obama should learn from Tom Cotton
JASON STANFORD p. 7
Kafka in Texas
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
Pennies at the register, dollars in the paycheck
BILL JOHNSTON p. 8
Labor must regain its cause
ELLEN BROWN p. 9
The Detroit bail-in template
LEO W. GERARD p. 9
GOP plans to beat itself up
WENDELL POTTER p. 10
A new health insurance world is on the way
DEAN BAKER p. 10
The economy is awful
SY MUKHERJEE p. 10
Six states want to deny health coverage to sick
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON p. 11
Volunteering is a force that bridges divides
NORMAN SOLOMON p. 11
The moral verdict on Bradley Manning
DON ROLLINS p. 11
The commies and Jackie Robinson
HAL CROWTHER p. 12
Moral Mondays: Democracy on trial
DAVID DAYEN p. 13
The housing ‘recovery’ is a total sham
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Right to vote protected in Constitution
WENONAH HAUTER p. 14
Trade deals threaten food safety
MARK ANDERSON p. 14
Beware bipartisan move on trade, tax reform
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Prospecting in the healthcare minefield
ROBERT B. REICH p. 15
Why corporate America isn’t making a ruckus
SAM URETSKY p. 15
The duel of the economic titans
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Dysfunctional deficit hawks
JOHN BUELL p. 16
Bankrupting Detroit
MARK WEISBROT p. 17
Mass media keeps Americans in the dark
B. MOYERS and M. WINSHIP p. 17
Mr. President, have pity on the working man
JOE CONASON p. 18
Measuring GOP extremism
TINA DUPUY p. 18
For shame for poor-shaming
ROBERT SCHEER p. 18
A statement of peace, or an epitaph
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Still reaping a harvest of shame
TED RALL p. 19
Lefties against Barack Obama
PETER S. GOODMAN p. 20
Bezos is using web for traditional means
BOOK REVIEW/Seth Sandronsky p. 20
Critical thinking is at risk
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Documenting aliens of the farthest-out kind
POPULIST PICKS p. 21
Tim Buckley; Behind Candelabra; Ed Hardy
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
Alex Rodriguez and ‘best interests of the game’
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Bradley Manning’s convictions
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Another round of newspaper cuts — and a toast
DONALD KAUL p. 23
By George, you don’t get it
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
The wilting middle class
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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