Selections from the April 1, 2014 issue

COVER/David Dayen
How the post office could save the economy

EDITORIAL
GOP needs Obamacare backlash

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Industrial ag chips away at democracy

DISPATCHES
Bernie Sanders mulls run for president;
GOP threatens pay cuts for docs if Obamacare goes ahead:
What a GOP Senate would look like;
Uninsured rate drops under 'Obamacare';
Crazy Paul Broun leads GOP Senate race in Georgia;
Landrieu sees opportunity in Medicaid expansion;
Koch Bros. outspend top 10 unions;
Senate rejects lawyer for notorious client:
Warren would tax m'aires to refinance student loans;
Colo. weed sales top $14M in first month:
Senate Intel chair accuses CIA of spying on Congress ...

BOB BURNETT
The war on democracy: Art Pope and rich bullies

SETH SANDRONSKY
The US is more unequal than ever

JOSEPH B. ATKINS
VW defeat won’t stop UAW organizing at plant

MARK ANDERSON
Selective anger at the banks

VERN TURNER
What are we defending?

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Insurance companies in bed with Uncle Sam

SAM URETSKY
Put money in right pockets to cure economy

WAYNE O’LEARY
Decline of the left

JOHN BUELL
Comcast merger threatens our democracy

DON ROLLINS
Sex trafficking, an American sin

ROB PATTERSON
If only Nashville were more like ‘Nashville’

POPULIST PICKS
‘Lovelace’; ‘War of the Worlds’; ‘Valentine Rd.’

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