Selections from the April 15, 2013 issue

COVER/David Dayen
Is JPMorgan a farmer?

EDITORIAL
Truth in a time of B.S.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
We’re losing dairy farmers to industrial combines

DISPATCHES
Obamacare at 3: Already helping real Americans
House OKs radical budget
Senate passes a budget!
Republicans would repeal student loan reforms
Schultz pushed to weekend, welcomes the change
Republican filibusters keep appeals court edge;
Sen. Johnson to retire;
Repub filibusters keep appeals court edge;
Bush library accomplished!
Tennessee's health care lottery
Big swing on drone attacksMich. Repubs cry foul on union deals
Cruz: Path to citizenship kills immigration reform ...
MARK ANDERSON
Bank critics urge repudiation of debt

BOB BURNETT
Searching for Republican soul

MARK ENGLER
The pope and the poor
WENONAH HAUTER
Smithfield on most admired companies list

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Homelessness: by-product of corporate capitalism

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
A fat state promotes obesity

SAM URETSKY
Not enough supplemental information

SETH SANDRONSKY
Virtual schools of the future

WAYNE O’LEARY
The symbolism gap in liberal politics

JOHN BUELL
Land and the bubble economy

MARK POTOK
Anti-government ‘Patriot’ groups ramp up again

ROB PATTERSON
NRBQ revival is worth cheering

POPULIST PICKS
‘Adam Clayton Powell’; ‘Argo’; ‘Sound City’

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