Selections from the May 15, 2013 issue

COVER/James Moore
Atlas has shrugged: West, Texas

EDITORIAL
Treat terrorists like common criminals

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR; LETTER FROM THE DEVIL 

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Look out: Corporations promote ‘right to farm’

DISPATCHES
GOP refuses to negotiate on budget;
Flight delays get Republicans’ attention;
Baucus retirement raises progressive hopes;
Illegal oil auction derailer released from detention;
Regal execs get massive pay raises, cut employees' hours to avoid health costs;
Business as usual is the problem;
Perry still touts Texas’ lack of regulation;
Yes, Texans opposed Sandy aid but now seek help for Texas blast recovery;
'Stand with Rand' on quicksand;
Terrorists can still buy guns and powder in the US;
Sequester forces gun tracing cuts;
Senate bill would close online sales tax loophole;
GOP quits public policy debate;
The Great Mulligan;
Kochs eye Tribune papers ... 

BOB BURNETT
The future is coming: What’s the US plan?

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Tortured debate

JOSEPH B. ATKINS
By the handful

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Medicaid expansion

SAM URETSKY
All that glitters isn’t a good investment
WAYNE O’LEARY
Labor’s orphans in the storm

JOHN BUELL
Capitalism’s moral blinders

ROB PATTERSON
‘Zero Dark Thirty’: Controversial film 

POPULIST PICKS 

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