Selections from the August 15, 2012 issue

COVER/Sara Robinson
The New Corporate Totalitarianism

EDITORIAL
No time for gun reform

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Third parties win by losing

DISPATCHES
Why gun control is a non-starter;
Gun murder stats;
Flipping Wisconsin Senate mattered;
Progs propose ‘Deal for All’;
Workers seek economic bill of rights;
Debt limit fight cost US $1.3B;
Elite stashes at least $21T in tax havens;
Biz helped by government claims biz doesn't need help;
Fracking shame;
Pa. admits no in-person voter fraud;
Cost of ACA drops by $84B after Supreme Court ruling;
GOP leans on Wall Street donors;
R's put $10T on the tab ...

RANDOLPH T. HOLHUT
Making higher education available to all

DON ROLLINS
We still don’t know how to talk about sex

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Citizens must unite to end Citizens United

WENONAH HAUTER
ExxonMobil CEO rants against planet

BOB BURNETT
Mitt Romney: No there there

SAM URETSKY
Geezers vs. the real entitled

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Costing out the freedom to be stupid

ART CULLEN
Why do we do this?

JOHN BUELL
Scorching weather and complacent media

WAYNE O’LEARY
False Equivalence

N. GUNASEKARAN
Neolibs devastate Indian higher education

JOEL JOSEPH
We can make Olympic uniforms in the US

JIM CULLEN
Portable ’net players offer progressive lifeline

HEATHER SEGGEL
Lizz free or die

ROB PATTERSON
Out of sight

POPULIST PICKS
Real country music

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