Selections from the June 15, 2013 issue

COVER/Andy Kroll
Stop billionaires from owning politics

EDITORIAL
‘Scandals’ don’t stick

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Hard to steer clear of genetically modified food

DISPATCHES
Congress pretends to bite Apple;
Immigration reform advancing;
GOP Hispanic Outreach Director joins Dems;
Congressman gets farm subsidies, denounces food stamp recipients as ‘stealing’;
Obamacare already helping health care;
'Citizens United' saving progressive politics?
Scandal sharks don't draw blood;
Deep South supports Medicaid expansion despite governors' opposition;
Reid readies for filibuster fight ...

ROGER BYBEE & CAROLYN WINTER
Time to challenge gun fundamentalists’ rationale

WENONAH HAUTER
Monsanto and other firms are winning in US

BOB BURNETT
Republicans aren’t Christians

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Government should protect the public

SAM URETSKY
Will the good guys win the class war?
WAYNE O’LEARY
The grocer’s daughter

JOHN BUELL
The future of austerity
GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Stop playing God

NORMAN SOLOMON
Obama in plunderland

ROB PATTERSON
The untold James Bond

POPULIST PICKS 

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