Selections from the September 1, 2013 issue

COVER/James Cersonsky
Labor movement emerges in Wisconsin

EDITORIAL
Bust the privatizers; Keep Fannie & Freddie

JIM HIGHTOWER
Forget student loans — make higher ed free; Here comes the border-industrial complex; Get radio-active; Corporate greed is making us sick; Monsanto’s Wizard of Oz website

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Pesticides will kill the planet

DISPATCHES
Green Tea Coalition drives wedge between teas, funders;
Obama leads attack on health care saboteurs;
Texas has greatest need for health expansion, but R’s aren’t interested;
House moves to dismantle Postal Service;
NSA vets say, yes, NSA does collect domestic calls;
DEA also uses domestic spying;
White House insists NSA surveillance review will be independent;
Repealing sequester would create 900,000 jobs;
Crowded field for dumbest climate-change denier in Congress:
Republicans back bill banning worker protection;
Texas brags about gerrymander to benefit Republicans;
Texas tragedy: Ample oil, no water ...

BILL JOHNSTON
Labor must regain its cause

DON ROLLINS
The commies and Jackie Robinson

HAL CROWTHER
Moral Mondays: Democracy on trial

WENONAH HAUTER
Trade deals threaten food safety

MARK ANDERSON
Beware bipartisan move on trade, tax reform

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Prospecting in the healthcare minefield

SAM URETSKY
The duel of the economic titans

WAYNE O’LEARY
Dysfunctional deficit hawks

JOHN BUELL
Bankrupting Detroit

BOOK REVIEW/Seth Sandronsky
Critical thinking is at risk

ROB PATTERSON
Documenting aliens of the farthest-out kind

POPULIST PICKS
Tim Buckley; Behind Candelabra; Ed Hardy

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