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COVER/Bill De Blasio p. 1
Don’t soul-search—stiffen your backbone
EDITORIAL p. 2
Whose butt gets kicked?
JIM HIGHTOWER p. 3
Net neutrality stands in the way of larger corporate profits; Exposing secret corporate coup of our elections; Reviving the Bush-Cheney torture policy; Surrealistic rule in the Silicon Valley; Silicon Valley profits from systematic labor exploitation
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR p. 4
WILL DURST p. 4
Obama and the terrible, horrible, very bad day
RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen p. 5
Know your neighbors, look out for CAFOs
DISPATCHES p. 5
Senate rejects Keystone pipeline—for now;
Rand Paul helps GOP kill NSA reform;
New Senate chair would privatize Postal Service;
Senators up for election in 2016;
Public trusts GOP over Dems on economy;
Pensions targeted by unscrupulous lenders:
Texas oil 'regulator' won't honor town's fracking ban;
Election over, campaign to reduce poverty starts;
Krugman: Government can do good ...
FROMA HARROP p. 6
Progressives don’t need Washington
JEREMY MILLER p. 6
Analyst challenges predictions for oil booms
JILL RICHARDSON p. 6
A prescription for better health
GENE LYONS p. 7
2 years of ‘Animal House Republicanism’
DON ROLLINS p. 7
The trumped up case against Maynard
DAVID SIROTA p. 7
Midterm results meant nothing for 2016
ROBERT REICH p. 8
The choice of the century
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL p. 8
Republicans will taste their bitter harvest
THOMAS FRANK p. 9
How Republicans hijacked the midterms
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet p. 9
National narratives leave voters in the dark
SIMON MALOY p. 10
SCOTUS could roil the GOP
WENDELL POTTER p. 10
Health insurers win midterm elections
CHUCK COLLINS p. 10
Leave no generation behind
MARY SANCHEZ p. 11
Election a step back for women in Congress
DEAN BAKER p. 11
Election results indicate mandate for trade pacts?
N. McCANN and A. MEYER p. 11
A bigger threat to US health than Ebola
DAVID DAYEN p. 12
K Street is ready for an ‘orgy of lobbying’
BOB BURNETT p. 12
None dare call it treason: Why Republicans won
JOAN WALSH p. 13
Women didn’t cost Democrats the election
BILL JOHNSTON p. 13
Conversation about economics before race
JESSE JACKSON p. 14
Obama’s legacy: Defining the course forward
WENONAH HAUTER p. 14
Vote to fight corporate interests
CRAIG AARON p. 14
President might have just saved the Internet
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas p. 15
A perverse incentive to get healthy
SAM URETSKY p. 15
Giving up choice on pharmacies
JOHN YOUNG p. 15
Dems bonked by Newton’s apple
WAYNE O’LEARY p. 16
Nonpartisan delusion
JOHN BUELL p. 16
Economics for a slow growth world
SIMON MALOY p. 17
Republicans’ fake wish granted
BILL McKIBBEN p. 17
The big climate deal: What it is and what it isn’t
GREG PALAST p. 17
Voter purges alter US political map
JOE CONASON p. 18
Voters still reject right-wing ideology
SAM PIZZIGATI p. 18
The peasants still have their pitchforks
TINA DUPUY p. 18
The governors who cried quarantine
PUBLIC INTEREST/Ralph Nader p. 19
Democrats not knowing what they stand for
TED RALL p. 19
Why I miss the Berlin Wall
ERIC BOEHLERT p. 20
How the press punched GOP’s midterm ticket
BOOK REVIEW/Seth Sandronsky p. 20
Flying patterns
JASON STANFORD p. 20
When the herd is wrong
ROB PATTERSON p. 21
Don’t be a hater on the ‘net
POPULIST PICKS p. 21
‘Pillar of Fire’; ‘Carter Girl’; Longreads.com
EDGE OF SPORTS/Dave Zirin p. 21
How sports disseminates burdens of racism
AMY GOODMAN p. 22
Tomas Young, rest in peace
CONNIE SCHULTZ p. 22
Time to dust off reproductive freedom flag
DONALD KAUL p. 23
How did we get here?
POET/Michael Silverstein p. 23
The booming election industry poem
Cover illustration by Dolores Cullen
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