Selections from the March 15, 2013 issue

COVER/Michael Lind
Southern poverty pimps

EDITORIAL
The debt alarm sham

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Arrest climate change, not protesters

DISPATCHES
‘Sequester’ cuts come into focus;
Public doesn’t like cuts;
Cal Tech physicist calls out feds for blocking marijuana research;
GOP proceeds with vote rigging schemes;
Vote rigger gets challenger;
Dems face tough Senate races in ’14 ...
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Minimum wage should be a living wage

DON ROLLINS
Peace Corps undergoing power struggles

BOB BURNETT
Obama 2013: In your face

WENONAH HAUTER
With fracking, Cuomo’s future hangs in balance
HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
The mark of C, for crazy

SAM URETSKY
Science heads toward truth

SETH SANDRONSKY
Democratic education reformers

WAYNE O’LEARY
Waiting for Hillary

JOHN BUELL
The taming of economic liberalism

NORMAN SOLOMON
Endless war: Becoming ‘the evil that we deplore’

D.H. KERBY
Secrecy becomes an enemy of the people
MARK ANDERSON
Michigan pig farmer seeks to rise above edicts
MARK DATEMA LIPSCOMB
Teaching Latin and the Second Amendment

POPULIST PICKS
‘Rebirth’ by Jimmy Cliff; ‘Go On’; ‘Baby Peggy: The Elephant in the Room’

ROB PATTERSON
More movies appeal to adults

and more ...