Selections from the May 15, 2014 issue

COVER/Edward McClelland
Sears is dying with the middle class

EDITORIAL
Open college to all

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

DON ROLLINS
NRA leads Florida to zombie apocalypse

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Changing the world with your neighborhood

DISPATCHES
IRS targeted left groups more aggressively than teabaggers;
Bundy’s ‘rights’ aren’t that ancestral;
Texas A.G. wants his own range war with BLM;
Senate still a tossup;
Landrieu aims at ‘Jindal gap’;
Right-wing talkers get payments from con groups;
Controversial Alaska initiatives pushed to general election ballot;
CBO: Medicaid better deal for states than originally predicted;
GOP will block Medicaid expansion to the last man;
GOP govs attack criminal defense lawyers — except their own;
Sickened family awarded $3M in fracking case;
Windmills relatively safe for birds;
Plenty of blame, no action in fertilizer blast probe;
Strike wins UAW recognition;
Gas exports drive higher US prices;
GOP mum on Earth Day;
Superfund site now home to solar farm;
Oklahoma will penalize solar panel installers;
Marijuana goes from poison to medicine;
No, Obama couldn't have been LBJ;
Left challenge could complicate Cuomo re-election ...

JOEL D. JOSEPH
What’s wrong with General Motors?

BOB BURNETT
War on democracy: SCOTUS weighs in

MARK ANDERSON
American workers need to say no trade deals

ELIZABETH HAND
Saved by Obamacare

WENONAH HAUTER
Don’t rubber stamp exports of fracked gas

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Smoking bans: They work

SAM URETSKY
Silence still doesn’t cure AIDS

WAYNE O’LEARY
Beware the ides of March

JOHN BUELL
Primal fears, environmental politics

BOOK REVIEW/Seth Sandronsky
Much in common

MOVIE REVIEW/Juan Palomo
The journey of farm workers

ROB PATTERSON
Check out the ladies’ detective agency

POPULIST PICKS
Inside Llewyn Davis; Booze Built US; Jobs

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