Selections from the July 1-15, 2014 issue

COVER/Sam Stein
Eric Cantor wasn’t right enough?

EDITORIAL
Let’s clear the air with carbon regs

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

DON ROLLINS
GOP picks up Florida’s check this time

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Organic ‘standards’ isn’t enough

DISPATCHES
Cantor upset may be nail in coffin of immigration reform;
Texas Republicans adopt immigration bashing platform;
Prog congressional candidates win;
Cal’s ‘top two’ primary eliminates 3rd party rivals;
Repubs block student loan refinancing plan;
Dems propose Social Security expansion;
GOP to GI's: We'll get to you maybe;
Nixon aide confirms campaign scuttled Viet peace talks in 1968...

JOHN YOUNG
Obama: True champion of the planet

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Money corrupts in many ways

BOB BURNETT
Racism: What’s the problem?

WENONAH HAUTER
Fracked gas exports without restrictions

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Obamacare will insure felons

SAM URETSKY
Red states need Medicaid patch

WAYNE O’LEARY
Schizophrenic Democrats

JOHN BUELL
Economic lessons from the boys of summer

GENE NICHOL
On being a white people’s party

N. GUNASEKARAN
21st century India in the making?

SETH SANDRONSKY
Labor and the AT&T-DirecTV merger

ROB PATTERSON
Neil deGrasse Tyson gets around ‘Cosmos’

POPULIST PICKS
‘Hunted’; ‘Rad Gumbo’; ‘Party Girl’


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