Selections from the May 1, 2014 issue

COVER/Calvin and Christian Exoo
Supreme Court out of control

EDITORIAL
GOP wrong again on Affordable Care Act

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

GILLES STOCKTON
Not so fast on Trans Pacific trade pact

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Try a digital detox

DISPATCHES
‘Obamacare’ critics, including Kochs, accept subsidies;
Money lines up against minimum wage hike;
Connecticut, Maryland pass $10.10 minimum wage;
On high court, former lobbyist guts campaign reform;
Progressive Dems move to draft Bernie Sanders for president;
Polls show good news for Dems;
Red-state voters want to expand Medicaid;
Earthquakes raise fracking fears;
N.C. regulators in no hurry to clean up coal ash spill;
Mark Udall slams AFP Obamacare pitch to China;
Fox News least accurate on climate change;
Demint: Big government didn't free slaves ... 

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Them that’s got shall get

DON ROLLINS
CVS tobacco ban contributes to common good 

BOB BURNETT
Accelerating use of renewable energy

WENONAH HAUTER
Factory farms are no chicken Shangri-La

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Scrooge, a tea party revision

SAM URETSKY
Social-net cuts endanger middle class

WAYNE O’LEARY
The GOP’s war on Medicaid

JOHN BUELL
Giving voice to climate silence

GENE NICHOL
A Tar Heel manifesto

SETH SANDRONSKY
Disputing education reform

ROB PATTERSON
Has SXSW grown out of control?

POPULIST PICKS
‘Chicago PD’; ‘Nebraska’; ‘Vice’

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