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COVER/Sam Stein p. 1
Eric Cantor wasn’t right enough?
EDITORIAL p. 2
Let’s clear the air with carbon regs
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Wall Street rewards Ben and Tim for stiffing you; Let’s re-fund America; Caterpillar crawls into offshore tax haven; When no news is bad news; Low-wage exploiters dressed as mom & pop businesses
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
DON ROLLINS p. 4
GOP picks up Florida’s check this time
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Organic ‘standards’ isn’t enough
DISPATCHES p. 5
Cantor upset may be nail in coffin of immigration reform;
Texas Republicans adopt immigration bashing platform;
Prog congressional candidates win;
Cal’s ‘top two’ primary eliminates 3rd party rivals;
Repubs block student loan refinancing plan;
Dems propose Social Security expansion
...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
The housing bust in America
HILARY HUTCHESON p. 6
A protected river is still vulnerable to oil spills
JILL RICHARDSON p. 6
Rebranding trash fish
GENE LYONS p. 7
What Greenwald gets wrong
JOHN YOUNG p. 7
Obama: True champion of the planet
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
Big money behind a big merger
WENDELL POTTER p. 8
Making insurers do right thing saves us billions
DEAN BAKER p. 9
VA scandal and downsizing Social Security
MARY ANNE HITT p. 9
Giving our kids a fighting chance to breathe
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 9
Money corrupts in many ways
JOHN NICHOLS p. 10
GOP civil war?
KATE SHEPPARD p. 10
Keystone XL vulnerable to attacks?
F. CLEMENTE and S. ANDERSON p. 10
Walmart’s top-to-bottom taxpayer subsidies
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Mental illness, guns have created an epidemic
BOB BURNETT p. 11
Racism: What’s the problem?
ROBERT REICH p. 11
Freedom summer II
DAVID DAYEN p. 12
Postal service blows it on banking services
WILLIAM A. COLLINS p. 12
An American banking revolution awaits
JOAN WALSH p. 13
The right’s unhinged Benghazi hypocrisy
RAUL A. REYES p. 13
Immigration reform stalled at starting line
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
The great divide
WENONAH HAUTER p. 14
Fracked gas exports without restrictions
HEATHER DIGBY PARTON p. 14
Ted Cruz’s Reagan strategy for 2016
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
Obamacare will insure felons
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Red states need Medicaid patch
SIMON MALOY p. 15
The GOP’s Obamacare disappearing act
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Schizophrenic Democrats
JOHN BUELL p. 16
Economic lessons from the boys of summer
GENE NICHOL p. 16
On being a white people’s party
MARK WEISBROT p. 17
Congress pushes against Latin America policy
N. GUNASEKARAN p. 17
21st century India in the making?
JOE CONASON p. 18
Prosecuting Snowden is unfair
SETH SANDRONSKY p. 18
Labor and the AT&T-DirecTV merger
TINA DUPUY p. 18
Our religion of the Founding Fathers
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Sweetheart settlement
TED RALL p. 19
Reparations for blacks?
ANDREW O’HEHIR p. 20
‘Citizen Koch’: Movie about our sick democracy
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 20
The real Benghazi scandal
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Neil deGrasse Tyson gets around ‘Cosmos’
POPULIST PICKS p. 21
‘Hunted’; ‘Rad Gumbo’; ‘Party Girl’
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
UCSB shooting, violence against women
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Bergdahl and darkening of American soul
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Robert Bergdahl’s beard of proof
JASON STANFORD p. 23
How will China respond?
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
A progressive’s Rx for smaller government
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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