Selections from the November 1, 2013 issue

COVER/Thomas Frank
The conservative plan is sabotage

EDITORIAL
GOP: Saboteurs or morons?

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen 

Benefits of a conversation

DISPATCHES
Federal budget crisis was carefully planned;
Millions of poor left uncovered by state health plans;
Idahoan with 10 kids on Medicaid denounces government health plan;
Disability advocates denounce ‘60 Minutes’ report;
Banks mistakenly break into homes;
Farm bill still going nowhere;
Japanese nuke continues to leak radioactive water;
What liberal media (cont'd) ...

JIM GOODMAN
Trans Pacific Partnership is win for corporations

DON ROLLINS
Religion and the poverty breach

EDWARD McCLELLAND
RIP, Middle Class: 1946-2013

MIKE LUX
Populism vs. Nihilism

WENONAH HAUTER
Taking stock of factory farm pollution

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
COBRA: Adios

SAM URETSKY
Putting a value on an education

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
This magic moment

WAYNE O’LEARY
Maine’s bad-boy governor

JOHN BUELL
Changing the political climate

BOOK REVIEW/Seth Sandronsky
Farm labor struggles

ROB PATTERSON
You have to get past an artist’s personality

POPULIST PICKS
Johnny Carson; Marshall Chapman; Tim O’Brien

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