Selections from the December 1, 2013 issue

COVER/Michael Lind
The tea party is an anti-populist elite tool

EDITORIAL
Whose credibility gap?

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Kicking the poor to the curb

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Be concerned about food sovereignty

DISPATCHES
Dems: why not expand Social Security?;
CBS botches Benghazi report;
Dems' 3 big wins;
Dems gave Christie a pass;
McAuliffe’s progressive campaign;
JFK assassination: still unsolved;
Kinky candidate for Texas ag post;
Food stamp cuts bring hardship for holidays;
Infrastructure spending collapse;
Wendy Davis helps rival vote in Texas;
Brazil spies on us, too;
Portlanders arrested for protesting P.O. privatization;
Backroom budget deal vs. small-town America;
Blood cancer downwind of Alberta's tar sands operations;
Limbaugh's lie meter ...

BOB BURNETT
Politics of hate

GENE NICHOL
Hapless Pat McCrory

DON ROLLINS
Duke Energy cashes in with no-nuke plan

WENONAH HAUTER
Keep corporate poultry out of your house

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Low T: Disease, the gold mine

SAM URETSKY
Exceptional times

WAYNE O’LEARY
Stupid is as stupid does

JOHN BUELL
Political monsters, inner demons

BOOK REVIEW/Seth Sandronsky
Globalize this

ROB PATTERSON
Finales don’t mean the end for actors

POPULIST PICKS
Chuck Berry; ‘Just Visiting’; ‘Masters of Sex’

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