Selections from the January 1-15, 2012 issue

COVER/Joan Walsh
The case against Hillary

EDITORIAL
Let Uncle Sam do health exchanges

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

FR. DONNELL KIRCHNER
How church’s mission was helped by elections

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
EZ for corporate developers, hard on taxpayers

DISPATCHES
‘Right to work’ blitz starts war in Mich.;
GOP ready to hold debt ceiling hostage again;
Dem leaders back off from raising Medicare age;
Progressive Reform calls for executive orders on health, safety and climate regs;
Hostess took workers' pension money to fund company;
Senate report on CIA interrogations may be withheld;
Poll finds Gov. Haley vulnerable in S.C.;
Poll: Keep feds' hands off state pot laws;
Texas gives $19B in biz tax subsidies;
Family planning cuts increase families;
Repubs still blame ACORN;
Demand labor rights in trade pact;
Virginia senator proposes scheme to rig presidential election ...
MARK ANDERSON
Teen fights school tracking measures

JOEL D. JOSEPH
How to raise revenue without raising taxes

BOB BURNETT
Global climate change: preparing for WWIII

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Ideological resolve: the courage to be cruel

SAM URETSKY
Winning the debates

WAYNE O’LEARY
Life among the cliff dwellers

JOHN BUELL
Beware of the bipartisan menace

THE AMERICAS/Roberto Rodriguez
Anti-thesis to segregation: Raza studies now!

DON ROLLINS
Funding for pregnant teens under fire

GENE NICHOL
Racialized criminal justice
BOOK REVIEW/Seth Sandronsky
Is doomsday ok?

MICHAEL SILVERSTEIN
A prayer for higher taxes

ROB PATTERSON
Dems’ win little help for liberal talkers

POPULIST PICKS

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