Selections from the July 1-15, 2013 issue

COVER/Jill Richardson
Feeding the economy

EDITORIAL
Spy business scandal

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Do you care how your salmon was engineered?

DISPATCHES
Massive online surveillance no one talks about;
Never mess with IT guy;
Carlyle Group profits from Booz Allen;
Most Americans support phone tracking;
Felon thanks NRA for keeping guns accessible;
Senate approves farm bill that cuts food stamps;
Ill., Delaware reject ‘Citizens United’;
Austerians fail to stop job growth;
MSNBC ratings down with Chris Hayes;
Immigration reform proceeds in Senate;
Oklahoma congressman demands apology for climate change research;
Grayson passes corporate accountabilitiy amendments;
GOP 'wunderkind' drives Wisconsin into ground;
Supreme Court enforces ex post facto ban — barely ... 

SETH SANDRONSKY
Curing California’s jobs crisis

DON ROLLINS
Occupy’s theological roots
WENONAH HAUTER
Birth of a global bacon behemoth

NORMAN SOLOMON
Bradley Manning ‘guilty’ of aiding democracy

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas 

Needed: a medical friend

SAM URETSKY
Medicine: nice care if you can get it

WAYNE O’LEARY
Fire sale in Washington

JOHN BUELL
Democratic discourse, politics of demonization

DONALD McCARTHY
When do people become products?

ROB PATTERSON
Shutting down the ‘Office’

POPULIST PICKS
3 music documentaries that are worth watching

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